"Jamie" t wrote in message
...
It's easy to convince people that a good method is not
good by simply not implementing a faster version of it and
instead, make a single wire system that uses less material and
say it's better technology..

While this is arguably true, in the case of USB they weren't just trying to
replace some particular method, they were trying to consolodate lots of
different interfaces into one: the legacy parallel ports, serial ports and
PS/2 ports -- poof!, all USB these days. They also effectively created a new
interface for battery chargers, although I don't think that was their intent.
:-)

The smaller cable size isn't that big of a deal, but it is kinda nice.
Especially these days now that USB is fast -- a USB 2.0 (480Mbps) is a real
joy compared to some of the horrors like the SCSI ultra wide cables!

---Joel