Thursday, 2024-05-02
The daily puzzle:
What does '*****' mean in the following text?
"Universal Serial Bus (*****) is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic devices. ***** was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals (including keyboards, pointing devices, digital cameras, printers, portable media players, disk drives and network adapters) to personal computers, both to communicate and to supply electric power. It has become commonplace on other devices, such as smartphones, PDAs and video game consoles. ***** has effectively replaced a variety of earlier interfaces, such as serial and parallel ports, as well as separate power chargers for portable devices."--++--++--
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