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As stated in the article FireWire (IEEE1394) to its variants was different (and much better) than USB. The scariest thing was hot-swapping/plugging. FireWire h
by rock_artist 5y ago
As stated in the article FireWire (IEEE1394) to its variants was different (and much better) than USB.
The scariest thing was hot-swapping/plugging.
FireWire had beefy power supply capabilities at the time.
We joked a lot of the 'fire' in firewire since you were easily able to 'fry' equipment (mostly the FireWire controllers).
I know a lot of non-techie people that plugged the FW400 port opposite which would usually fry your equipment.
USB4.0 is however great news imho since it merged Thunderbolt was is capable of low-latency which was the main feature (at least for audio) with FireWire.