Number 317 - October 2009

Third Generation USB
by Jack Lewtschuk, Monterey Bay UG, Feb 2009
Many of you recall the old Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1.1 Its time passed when the much faster USB 2.0 was invented--It's the USB we all use now to connect our peripherals (mouses, printers, flash drives, etc.)    Last November we were given some good news:    Good news 1 - by 2010 we will be able to buy USB 3.0	Good news 2 - it will be 10 times faster than USB 2.0 and it will feature improved power efficiency.    Good News 3 - USB 3.0 will be backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1 devices, which means that all we will have time to upgrade our peripheral devices when we are ready.
Number 317 - October 2009