You know really overcooked my pastor when groups of seemingly very smart people in positions of power in the tech world this really cool technology than when it’s finally time to bring it to market come up with a naming scheme that makes no sense the worst.
Yes that’s right I am looking at your U. S. B. forum and for you guys specifically what really confuses me is that you went over to the dark side after a long history of making things actually.
Pretty simple and straightforward so we started out with U. S. B. one then we got 1. which was a minor revision till one. Cool then we got USB 2.0 which was much faster then we got USP 3.0 which was much faster again,
so then it wasn’t until around 2013 that things started getting a little weird you see the original USP 3.0 spec how to Max the radical speed of 5 gigabits per second so you would think that the next revision which double that speed to 10 gigabits would be U. S. B. 4.0 right. Wrong instead what we got was USP 3.
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Speed of 5 gigabits per second
Even okay with that I mean one is clearly a larger number than 0 and I guess it wasn’t a fundamental redesign of the spec or anything no no no the issue is that at the same time they also renamed the original USP 3. oh spec as USB 3. one Gen one they called the new 10 gigabits back USB 3. one Gen 2.
I mean how do you just rename something after the fact do you are you shampoo do you think that makes it seem new and cool now improved but it’s the old one but you’re also releasing a new one that is improved why and in fairness yeah that’s been done before but still than making matters worse we’ve just gotten another doubling in speed to 20 gigabits per second why am I mad.
The good thing right the reason is that the U. S. B. forum has given us an even worse nonsensical naming twist. So there with me here the original USP 3.05 gigabits back is now USP 3.2 Jan 1. With the 10-gigabyte version becoming USP 3.2 Gentoo which. Okay so bye this moon logic then the 20-gigabit variation would be USP 3.2 Gen 3 right.
20-gigabyte version
No, because the USP 3.2 spec just involves adding more lanes to the connection so the 20-gigabyte version is USB 3.2 Jan 2 by 2 with the buy 2 indicating that there are 2-day lanes instead of just one do you believe.
So yours before whose marketing department clearly isn’t much better at naming things than the engineers has done got it recommended the names superspeed. Per speed USB 10 gigabit per second and superspeed USB 20 gigabit per second to differentiate the products on store shelves.
Now to be fair to the U. S. B. forum the message behind their madness seems to be to have the naming scheme reflect how many lanes can be used in each revision and I do get that when they transition from USB 2. oh to 3. oh part of the rationale for us a big number change was that there were physical differences with the connectors which is not the case for the various USB 3 revisions.
The problem now is that Jen is a generation give me this time you can’t just rename our generation a later generation that’s not how it works Mike by great-grandpa doesn’t become my dad later.
PCI specification
Furthermore USP 3. oh was backward compatible with USB 2. oh connectors anyway and more importantly yeah I’ve done all of this is that consumers don’t care about things like the configuration of data lanes and exactly how depends on the traces on their mother border laid out they just want to know.
If the gadget they’re buying is going to work with their gear and how fast it’s going to be I mean PCI express has the sort of thing figured out now to be clear there are some very complicated sub-elements of the PCI specification like hot plug support that are optional on certain revisions and then required on others.
A lot from a consumer standpoint when there’s a speed boost the version number goes up by one and that’s basically it and even though the various revisions of PCI express are all backward and forwards compatible with each other the folks in charge haven’t felt the need to mess around with silly rebranding to make the point that it all works together it’s all called PCI express.
Conclusion
So-called USB type but alas this is the system we have so if you’re going to be in the market for a USB gadget any time soon I would recommend paying really close attention to this chart that we created for your convenience or better yet print it out and keep a copy in your wallet as I do,
So that you too can be the life of the party whenever the subject changes to something lame like. This. All right so that’s it if you’ll excuse me now I need to go have a word with Intel about how they decide on names for their processors as well.
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