Sounds to me like the guys that wrote the USB standard spent -way- too much
time talking to the folks behind the counter at Starbucks...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Warren
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:16 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: USB 2.0 NOT!
> 
> Bob Blick <piclist@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Here in California we have Tall, Grande, and Venti.
> > Tall, of course, is the smallest.
> 
>     Yeah, that's true anywhere there's a Starbucks... Which is like
>     saying it's true throughout the universe, I guess.
> 
>     As with the names for USB speeds, there's history behind the
>     Starbucks coffeecup-size names:
> 
>     In the beginning, there were two sizes: Short and Tall.  When they
>     introduced the larger 16-ounce cup, it was called Grande.  The
>     progression -- Short, Tall, Grande -- wasn't hard to understand, but
>     then it got a little confusing when they dropped the Short size and
>     were left with only Tall and Grande (rather like USB's Full-speed
>     and High-speed).
> 
>     In order to avoid further confusion when they introduced the even
>     larger 20-ounce cup, they decided not to use another comparative
>     name and instead just called it Venti (Italian for "twenty").
> 
>     Which makes sense, except that in order to compensate for the volume
>     of ice in cold drinks, the COLD version of the Venti cup is 24 ounces.
> 
>     -Andy
> 
> === Andrew Warren - aiw@cypress.com
> === Principal Design Engineer
> === Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
> === (but open to offers)
> 
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