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Introduction
Firewire was developed by Apple in the mid-80’s, but was not used as it more commonly known as a means of connecting external peripherals until the mid to late-90’s. ... However it has only been in the last few years that Firewire has been making its way to PC’s and laptops that are Windows based. Meaning its lead time has been quiet a number of years when you compare it to USB. USB first started appearing towards the end of 1996 and is now available on more than 90% of computers, including Macintosh computers. ... com (2004)]
The USB peripheral bus standard was jointly developed by Compaq, IBM, DEC, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Northern Telecom and is now mostly controlled by Intel and Microsoft. After only making a very small impact on the market, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) now dominates the PC market. USB ports are now available on all new PCs, and now a huge amount of USB peripherals are appearing on the market. However, the initial implementation of USB (version 1. ... 1 version of USB is struggling to keep up to pace with the requirements of other products that rely on the USB connection, those being most optical disks and hard disks. Seeing the limitations of USB, Intel has released USB 2.0, an updated version of the interface that increases throughput from 12 Mbits per second all the way up to 480 Mbits per second.
Approximate Word count = 1124
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