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FireWire is a method of transferring information between digital devices, especially audio and video equipment. Also known as IEEE 1394, FireWire is fast -- the latest version achieves speeds up to 800 Mbps. ... You can connect up to 63 devices to a FireWire bus. IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony and Panasonic. Apple called the interface FireWire.

firewire...and SCSI

well this was originally was a question dealing with a PCI-to-Firewire card, but i got to thinking. if i'm not mistaken, the PCI slot has a transfer rate of 133 or so Mb per second for each slot. i thought i saw a company that advertised firewire PCI card for PC's, advertised with a xfer rate of 400Mb/sec. how can this be? the PCI would bottleneck this to 133, correct?