The organization looked upon the situation with disdain. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) quickly saw emerging efforts to build three incompatible new standards-VME, NuBus 2, and Futurebus. A bus is a kind of channel over which various types of data can flow between computer components, and an internal bus is for expansion cards like scientific instruments or dedicated graphics processing. Around that time, talk started about a new generation of internal bus architectures. He was then a system architect in National Semiconductor's marketing department, there to impart technical knowledge upon the clueless sales and marketing staff. "It actually started in 1987," Michael Johas Teener, the chief architect of FireWire, told Ars. The story of how FireWire came to market and ultimately fell out of favor serves today as a fine reminder that no technology, however promising, well-engineered, or well-liked, is immune to inter- and intra-company politics or to our reluctance to step outside our comfort zone. And eventually the Cupertino company effectively did kill FireWire, just as it seemed poised to dominate the industry. Yet FireWire's principal creator, Apple, nearly killed it before it could appear in a single device. Realized to the fullest, FireWire could replace SCSI and the unwieldy mess of ports and cables at the back of a desktop computer.
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It represented a unified standard across the whole industry, one serial bus to rule them all. A joint effort from several competitors including Apple, IBM, and Sony, FireWire was a triumph of design for the greater good. The standard was forged in the fires of collaboration. The rise and fall of FireWire- IEEE 1394, an interface standard boasting high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer-is one of the most tragic tales in the history of computer technology.