Nt1310 Unit 3 Essay

In 1992 within Intel Architecture Labs engineers began exploring ways to make connecting devices to PCs simpler, they were communicating with their counterparts across the industry that were also keen to tackle the challenge.
Jim Pappas was hired from DEC to Intel and asked to program manage the USB industry effort. Intel assumed that making it easier to develop and configure platforms with external peripherals would help the computing industry by creating new usages for PCs. In leading the core USB development team, there was one key goal: to keep the interface simple. “People who knew we were developing USB wanted to add lots of things to the interface,” Pappas recalls.
The USB was originally designed for personal computers but it also became more common in devices …show more content…
Many amendments were made to this document in collaboration with the core group of companies and feedback from industry wide reviews.
The USB was first introduced in 1995 by Compaq, Digital Equipment, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Northern Telecom as a simpler way of connecting hardware to personal computers. The USB was invented to replace the host of cables and connectors necessary to attach peripheral devices to a host computer and it was also meant to simplify the software configurations of all the devices that are connected to USB and allow for greater bandwidths for connected external devices.
Initially the implementation of USB technology was slow. Many computer manufacturers were slow to add the ports to their systems and makers of peripheral devices were slow to market USB products before the ports became standard on new computers.
The first USB specification 1.0 was introduced in 1996 and supported two speeds Low-Speed (LS) which was 1.5Mb/s and Full-Speed (FS) which was 12Mb/s. In 1998 the USB had reached a critical turning point, up until this time USB technology had not been incorporated in PC operating

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