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USB was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals to personal computers, both to communicate and to supply electric power.

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Why was USB 1.0 incredibly slow even for its time?

USB 1.0 is from 1996 and has a transfer rate of up to 12 Mbps. I think it's extremely slow even for its time. Because here are two similar standards from the same time which are much faster: IEEE 802.3u is the fast ethernet spec from 1995. Even…
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