On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:54:26 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 11:57 -0800, Les wrote: > > SCSI is a serial system, or at least it can be. > > Pardon? Usually, when one has a data bus for several parallel data > lines at once, one refers to it as parallel. > > Serial - one data line, that sends bits sequentially. > Parallel - several data lines, that send bits simultaneously. Of course its never that simple. Most "serial" busses are actually multiple wires which send information in parallel.. And nowdays a lot of devices have multiple serial interfaces that are not clock synchronous with each other to get higher bit rates than parallel can do.
