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Mark Lloyd[_11_] Mark Lloyd[_11_] is offline
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On 12/26/2013 10:39 AM, Dan Espen wrote:

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I suppose serial ports have their advantages,
they're used even for disk (Sata). Probably their simplicity.


PCI Express is serial.

Apparently there's a problem with parallel at really high speeds. It
becomes impossible to guarantee that all bits are present during the
increasingly narrow window.

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