ALSO CALLED: HPSB, High Performance Serial Bus, High Speed Serial Bus, i.LINK, and FireWire
DEFINITION: FireWire is Apple Computer's version of a standard, IEEE 1394, High Performance Serial Bus, for connecting devices to your personal computer. FireWire provides a single plug-and-socket connection on which up to 63 devices can be attached with data transfer speeds up to 400 Mbps (megabits per second). The standard describes a serial bus  … 
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IEEE 1394 HIGH-PERFORMANCE SERIAL BUSES DEFINITION (continued): …  or pathway between one or more peripheral devices and your computer's microprocessor. Many peripheral devices now come equipped to meet IEEE 1394. FireWire and other IEEE 1394 implementations provide:

• A simple common plug-in serial connector on the back of your computer and on many different types of peripheral devices
• A thin serial cable rather than the thicker parallel cable you now use to your printer, for example
• A very high-speed rate of data transfer that will accommodate multimedia applications (100 and 200 megabits per second today; with much higher … 
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