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USB terminology is changing
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| Tony Sivori 2003-06-20, 10:23 pm |
| Apparently for no better reason than to palm off the old USB 1.1 (12 Mb/s)
as something close to USB 2.0 (480 Mb/s) the owners of the USB standard are
now referring to USB 1.1 as "Full Speed USB", and USB 2.0 as "High Speed
USB". The version numbers, 1.1 and 2.0, are no longer used at all.
This almost sounds like a joke, I know, but apparently it is true. Here are
some references:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/180603_D..._datacol61.html
http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2#q1
Needless (I hope) to say, the questions and answers on the A+ test are
unchanged for now. Just answer USB test questions with what the current
study guides say.
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Tony Sivori
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| SBFan2000 2003-06-21, 1:23 am |
| It matters little what they call it! Techs know it as 1.1 and 2.0 and I
suspect thats what those who work with PCs will continue to call it!
"Tony Sivori" <TonySivori@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bd0ik6$mq7hh$1@ID-140514.news.dfncis.de...
> Apparently for no better reason than to palm off the old USB 1.1 (12 Mb/s)
> as something close to USB 2.0 (480 Mb/s) the owners of the USB standard
are
> now referring to USB 1.1 as "Full Speed USB", and USB 2.0 as "High Speed
> USB". The version numbers, 1.1 and 2.0, are no longer used at all.
>
> This almost sounds like a joke, I know, but apparently it is true. Here
are
> some references:
> http://www.bangkokpost.com/180603_D..._datacol61.html
> http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2#q1
>
> Needless (I hope) to say, the questions and answers on the A+ test are
> unchanged for now. Just answer USB test questions with what the current
> study guides say.
>
> --
> Tony Sivori
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| natural_4u 2003-06-21, 7:24 am |
| I can see a lot of salesmen using this new terminology on customers that are
computer illiterate.
"Tony Sivori" <TonySivori@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bd0ik6$mq7hh$1@ID-140514.news.dfncis.de...
> Apparently for no better reason than to palm off the old USB 1.1 (12 Mb/s)
> as something close to USB 2.0 (480 Mb/s) the owners of the USB standard
are
> now referring to USB 1.1 as "Full Speed USB", and USB 2.0 as "High Speed
> USB". The version numbers, 1.1 and 2.0, are no longer used at all.
>
> This almost sounds like a joke, I know, but apparently it is true. Here
are
> some references:
> http://www.bangkokpost.com/180603_D..._datacol61.html
> http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2#q1
>
> Needless (I hope) to say, the questions and answers on the A+ test are
> unchanged for now. Just answer USB test questions with what the current
> study guides say.
>
> --
> Tony Sivori
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| Tony Sivori 2003-06-21, 10:23 am |
| SBFan2000 wrote:
> It matters little what they call it! Techs know it as 1.1 and 2.0 and I
> suspect thats what those who work with PCs will continue to call it!
You may not have that luxury when troubleshooting or providing tech support.
A customer may complain that they have full speed USB but it takes a quarter
hour to transfer a 1 GB file to their USB hard drive. You'll need to know
that Full Speed equals USB 1.1 so that time would be about right.
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Tony Sivori
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| Tony Sivori 2003-06-21, 11:23 am |
| natural_4u wrote:
> I can see a lot of salesmen using this new terminology on customers that
> are computer illiterate.
I think that was their intention. The surprising part was that it wasn't
coming from sales slime, it was coming from people who should have known
better.
USB 2.0 was announced with considerable fanfare, and rightly so. It is quite
a leap forward in speed. Yet they have chosen to dilute the recognition of
the improved product, by making it so easy to confuse with the much slower
original USB.
They did it just so they can unload the old 1.1 computers, devices, hubs and
cables a little easier. One would think that as is the case most all old and
slow computer hardware, they would just drastically cut the price, like
everyone else does. But they seemed to already be in an unusually good
position; the new 2.0 USB cables and hubs (and devices I would assume,
although I have not priced those) are so expensive compared to the old 1.1
ones that it probably wouldn't have been necessary to significantly cut
prices.
All in all, it seems to be a mystifyingly short sighted and greedy move by
people who should have, at the least, been looking to tomorrow's bottom line
as well as today's.
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Tony Sivori
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| James D. Murray 2003-07-27, 1:24 pm |
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"Tony Sivori" <TonySivori@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bd1u6s$o2qqi$1@ID-140514.news.dfncis.de...
> natural_4u wrote:
>
> They did it just so they can unload the old 1.1 computers, devices, hubs
and
> cables a little easier. One would think that as is the case most all old
and
> slow computer hardware, they would just drastically cut the price, like
> everyone else does.
>
Ahhhhh...this explains why you can now buy a 4-port, USB 1.1 hub at Fry's
electronics for $9 and get a $9 rebate with it.
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