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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 week ago (15 children)

The USB standards are just... Comically overcomplicated. And almost everything about it is optional. They need a full revamp, making it simpler and mandatory on all future ports, devices and cables.

But they won't do that, will they.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I remember having a FireWire in one of the family desktops when I was a kid. Can't remember what we might have used it for, though.

It resides in the same vague memory hole as the Zip drive that we had.

[–] aniki@lemmings.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firewire was phenomenal for external hard drives. The speed was almost as fast as the drives so you were rarely limited by the port.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Yep, that's because the actual data transfer was handled by the more capable device, instead of only the guest. I think the standard also required a minimum throughput, iirc, whereas USB only had a maximum.

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