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I don't think the port names is what they were referring to.

The actual names for each data transfer level are an absolute mess.

1.x has Low Speed and Full Speed 2.0 added High Speed 3.0 is SuperSpeed (yes no space this time) 3.1 renamed 3.0 to 3.1 Gen 1 and added SuperSpeedPlus 3.2 bumped the 3.1 version numbers again and renamed all the SuperSpeeds to SuperSpeed USB xxGbps And finally they renamed them again removing the SuperSpeed and making them just USB xxGbps

USB-IF are the prime examples of "don't let engineers name things, they can't"





> USB-IF are the prime examples of "don't let engineers name things, they can't"

While not disagreeing, I'd ask for a proof it's not a marketing department's fun. Just to be sure.

Engineers love consistency. Marketing is on the opposite side of this spectra.

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> USB-IF are the prime examples of "don't let engineers name things, they can't"

Engineers don't make names that are nice for marketing team.

But they absolutely do make consistent ones. The engineer wouldn't name it superspeed, the engineer would encode the speed in the name

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