This is great and actually explains a few things that I sort of knew but often figured out by trial and error.
I especially like "[USB] has the huge upside that you can generally plug a USB device into your computer without having to spend a lot of time thinking about the details of the interconnect.
Fortunately, USB-C, Thunderbolt, and Lightning have come along to fix that."
2021 retro-link! computer.rip/2021-01-12-taking… - Taking this serially.
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