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People already get the names wrong, so the USB group has doubled down on bad naming.
USB 3.0 was straightforward enough. A USB 3.0 connection ran at 5Gb/s, and slower connections were USB 2 or even USB 1.1. The new 5Gb/s data rate was branded "SuperSpeed USB," following USB 2's 480Mb/s "High Speed" and USB 1.1's 12Mb/s "Full Speed."
But then USB 3.1 came along and muddied the waters. Its big new feature was doubling the data rate to 10Gb/s. The logical thing would have been to identify existing 5Gb/s devices as "USB 3.0" and new 10Gb/s devices as "USB 3.1." But that's not what the USB-IF did. For reasons that remain hard to understand, the decision was made to retroactively rebrand USB 3.0: 5Gb/s 3.0 connections became "USB 3.1 Gen 1," with the 10Gb/s connections being "USB 3.1 Gen 2." The consumer branding is "SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps."
What this branding meant is that many manufacturers say that a device supports "USB 3.1" even if it's only a "USB 3.1 Gen 1" device running at 5Gb/s. Meanwhile, other manufacturers do the sensible thing: they use "USB 3.0" to denote 5Gb/s devices and reserve "USB 3.1" for 10Gb/s parts.
USB 3.2 doubles down on this confusion. 5Gb/s devices are now "USB 3.2 Gen 1." 10Gb/s devices become "USB 3.2 Gen 2." And 20Gb/s devices will be... "USB 3.2 Gen 2×2." Because they work by running two 10Gb/s connections along different pairs of wires simultaneously, and it's just obvious from arithmetic that you'd number the generations "1, 2, 2×2." Perhaps they're named for powers of two, starting with zero? The consumer branding is a more reasonable "SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps."
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @05:46AM (13 children)
And there's a USB-C connector, well I think its just a connector... it's part of both the 3.1 and 3.2 specs according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C [wikipedia.org] so does that mean they retarded usb-3-micro thing is gone finally?
I'm still confused ...
(Score: 4, Funny) by snmygos on Wednesday February 27 2019, @06:05AM (10 children)
They seem terrorized by the number 4!
(Score: 5, Funny) by kazzie on Wednesday February 27 2019, @07:43AM
Just like Winamp.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @11:24AM (6 children)
Just wait until they get to the number "9". Both Windows and MacOS skipped over it for a reason ...
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:06PM (1 child)
number nine ....
number nine. ...
number nine.. ..
number nine... .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:29PM
That didn't take long. TYVM :-)
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:13PM (3 children)
Um . . . there WAS a Mac OS 9. It was the final beloved version of the Classic Mac OS. After it came the abomination popularly known as OS X with an obsession on cats.
Spend less time fixating on skipping over nine and spend more time obsessing on the number 10, but label it X.
Mac OS X will be the last one.
Windows 10 will be the last one. Microsoft: please change the name to Windows OS X.
Linux 10 anyone? anyone?
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:14PM
One more thing . . . Android is now up to 9. So Google didn't skip 9. How about Android OS X?
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @07:11PM (1 child)
lazy minded, retarded fucks already call ubuntu 18.04 ubuntu 18, ffs!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 28 2019, @03:13PM
So I can deduce:
Ubuntu 18 means 18.04
Ubuntu 18 OS X means 18.10
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:49PM
Could be they are japanese afraid of the number 4 [wikipedia.org]?.
See also: Tetraphobia [wikipedia.org], Fraidy Cat [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:10PM
After KDE 4, what do you expect?
Prediction: no python 4.
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday February 27 2019, @06:21AM
There's such a vast array of optional features in the same physical connector, they thought they'd get flak if they went with a simple system.
By confusing everybody, they don't get blamed for misleading by oversimplification.
That's the most rational explanation I can find for this clusterfuck.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Wednesday February 27 2019, @06:31AM
Mini A, mini B, mini AB, micro A, micro AB are all deprecated [wikipedia.org]
The speed indicator is separate.
It is a mess
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