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Thursday, January 17, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/techtest/ml091901.htm USB 2.0 an improvement worth plugging into BY MIKE LANGBERG, Mercury News Personal Technology Editor USB 2.0 is a new and better way to plug devices into a personal computer -- one of those dry technical improvements that's worth understanding because it will make life just a little bit easier. PCs by themselves aren't especially useful. Almost all their value comes from things we connect to them, such as phone lines or network cables for reaching the Internet, printers, speakers, digital cameras and much more.... So an industry group called the USB Implementers Forum (www.usb.org) has created USB 2.0 as a second-generation standard. USB 2.0 is 40 times faster than its predecessor and is capable of moving data at a blinding 480 Mbps....
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