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Chapter 8. FireWire

The FireWire name was originally coined by Apple Computer, Inc., for a high-throughput serial multimedia link to interconnect computer and consumer electronic devices. It was designed to handle both Asynchronous (such as data) and Isochronous (such as video) packet transmissions. That transmission technology was later standardized as the IEEE 1394 serial bus. Many standardization efforts were coordinated at the 1394 Trade Association (1394 TA), a nonprofit trade organization formed in 1994 with earlier strong support from major corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM (through its former printer division now known as Lexmark), Microsoft, SONY, and Texas Instruments, as well as Apple. The first FireWire standards were released ...