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That's the mistake that USB 2.0 made calling 480 Mbps "High Speed". Now it seems incredibly slow by today's standards.
by WorldMaker 4y ago
That's the mistake that USB 2.0 made calling 480 Mbps "High Speed". Now it seems incredibly slow by today's standards.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoSee also: high definition TV
- alias_neo 4y agoAm I right in thinking that 4K and 8K are UHD 4K and UHD 8K? I guess this debacle goes even further back with VHF and UHF. Why do we insist on using such words when they don't clearly have an order? Is "very" larger than "ultra" and where would "super" fit in there?
- anikom15 4y agoUsable frequency is just on one axis, and is bound by the physical properties of the atmosphere, so there is at least a limit.
- mananaysiempre 4y agoOr even USB 1.1, which called the faster of its two modes (12 Mbit, or perhaps more honestly Mbaud, per second) “Full Speed”, at which point anything you name an even-faster one is going to be confusing.