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Why serial?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:04:09 GMT
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Serial buses seem to be fashionable right now. The most common ones are
probably USB and Firewire. Some say that these, or some ancestors of
them, will replace parallel connections like SCSI and IDE ATA in the
future.
I can understand that serial buses are more handy from a practical point
of view. But what I don't understand is why they are faster. I would
guess that a parallel connection is the fastest, as it can transfer
multiple bits simultaneously. A serial connection, on the other hand,
can only transfer single bits at a time.
Fredrik
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