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The anatomy of Firewire
Why on earth would one want to dissect a Firewire card ? After all ,
all these cards are the same right ? 
I
mean PCI in Firewire out ? no ? .... No! Unfortunately that is not so.
There are slight differences between the cards that are out there. Some
might be obvious , like the number of ports , but some are much less obvious.
And some are even hard to spot unless you are an electronics engineer
who eats electrons for breakfast everyday. So it's time for a little Show
and tell ... about Firewire and everything related to it.
Firewire: Past , present and future..
The name Firewire was coined by a group of Apple engineers in or around 1986. Adaptec, the leading supplier of computer I/O peripherals, was one of the first companies with a 1394 Firewire board shipping in volume. In 1995 it was officially embraced by the IEEE ( Institute of electrical and electronics engineers , pronounced I-Triple-E) and labeled as the IEEE 1394 standard. A number of IEEE 1394 products are now available including digital camcorders with the IEEE 1394 link. The Digital VCR Consortium (consisting of more than 50 manufacturers of consumer electronics firms) adopted the IEEE1394 High Performance Serial Bus as the standard digital interface between consumer DV products.
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