EV>I knew the P meant Parallel and the S meant Serial.
EV>I didn't know both xATA HDD's were IDE.  Thanks!

EV>I've always thought a Parallel connection was the way to go.
EV>I'm thinking about back in the early days Printers were RS-232 Serial,
EV>but later most all Printers used a Centronix Parallel connector.
EV>Until USB came along.

EV>SATA Hard Drives, I guess, must be faster than PATA Hard Drives?
EV>Even though the signal flow is Serial, which I always thought was
EV>slower because of Parallel Printers becoming more popular to buyers.

For many years Parallel was faster then serial but advances in serial
communications soon passed parallel in speed.

During my second career after retiring form the Navy I worked with
Medicla Monitoring equipment. I was involved with seveal installs and
wiring ao those DB-25 conectors was a real pain. I rembember when
Hewlett Packard perfected theri High Speed serial data net the wiring
was quick and easy. The Medical staff loved it because each room
patient monitor became a remote of and other room in the net and the
doctor on his rounds could check back on extra critical patients without
returning to their room.
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