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FireWire (IEEE 1394x) - A serial bus interface standard offering
high-speed communications and real-time data services. Cable length
is limited to 4.5 m, but up to 16 cables can be daisy-chained, yield-
ing a total length of 72 m. It allows the connection of up to 63
peripherals in a tree-like structure. It allows peer-to-peer device com-
munication to take place without using system memory or the CPU.
It is designed to support plug-and-play and hot swapping.
Gigabyte - 1,024 megabytes (binary); 1,000 megabytes (decimal),
or approximately one billion bytes.
Hardware - Physical components of a computer system (computer,
hard drives, printers, etc.)
Hub - A device which links peripherals together onto the same data
bus.
Interface - Junction between two items of hardware or software for
the exchange of data.
Isochronous - A form of data transmission that guarantees a cer-
tain minimum data rate, as required for time-dependent data such as
video or audio.
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