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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loved FireWire, if we had adopted it instead of USB we’d all be driving flying AI cars by now.

The stuff it could do was really cool, you could network computers, daisy chain it, it could transfer data in real time systems (like digital recording or audio setups), and it was actually designed for power delivery, plus it was much much faster than USB (at the time).