FireWire is Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. IEEE 1394 is a serial bus architecture for high-speed data transfer. FireWire fully supports both isochronous and asynchronous applications.
FireWire is Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple (in 1986[4]) and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and INMOS/SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics).
IEEE 1394 is a serial bus architecture for high-speed data transfer. FireWire is a serial bus, meaning that information is transferred one bit at a time. Parallel buses utilize a number of different physical connections, and as such are usually much less efficient, more costly, and typically heavier. FireWire fully supports both isochronous and asynchronous applications.
More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394
