It seems to me that the general trend in computers is going towards parallel architectures wherever you go. But I've noticed that the term 'SATA' appears much more often than 'PATA' these days...
Isn't the 'P' in PATA supposed to represent the word "parallel" whereas the 'S' in SATA is "serial"? But in the computer world, we are now moving toward multiple processors, cores, etc.
So just wondering why we have been seeing SATA become more popular than PATA (or in other words, why serial has become dominating over parallel).