[Wylug-help] Linux Distro on Bootable USB Stick

[James Holden]

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Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:01:25PM +0100, James Holden wrote:
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>>John Hodrien wrote:
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>>>So to clear it up they rebadged 1.1 to be 2.0 Full Speed.  Then they
>>>rebadged
>>>the faster USB 2.0 as 2.0 Hi-Speed.  So that inspired decision means
>>>than Full
>>>speed is in fact about 40 times slower than Hi-Speed.  I wonder what the
>>>next
>>>version will be called...
>>>
>>>jh
>>>
>>
>>I think it's called ieee1394 ;-)
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> 
> IEEEEEE! indeed.
> 
> I don't think I've actually noticed a single product with an explicit
> 'Hi-Speed' or 'Full Speed' label in my recent trawls through Dabs, Scan,
> CCL etc.
> 
> Maybe I overlooked some, but I'm absolutely certain that they were missing
> off many products.
> 
> What do people do when they find they've just bought the wrong one?

I don't think it's much of an issue these days. IIRC it was only a
problem when USB2.0 Hi-Speed proper came out and some unscrupulous
vendors were relabelling their old slow devices with USB2.0 to clear
their stocks to unwitting punters.

James
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