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USB standards

USB standards

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USB standards

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- USB, USB. USB or Universal Serial Bus is the defacto standard by which we plug stuff into our computers. I don't care if it's a camera or if it's a mouse or a keyboard, odds are good, if you have any of these devices, you're probably going to be using USB. USB has some amazing benefits to it. We can usually take a USB device, plug it into our system, and it just works most of the time and it really makes our lives very convenient. Now in this episode, what I want to do is talk about the different USB standards that are out there. USB's been around for quite a while and a number of different standards have come along and it's important for you and for the exam that you're comfortable with those standards. So let's start off by going through all the different USB standards. USB 1.1 came out in two different speeds. It would either run at 1.5 megabits per second, or 12 megabits per second. Now, in today's world, that seems so incredibly slow, but back then that that was pretty quick…

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