  Thunderbolt connector Apple shows off its '11 MacBook Pro
notebooks       Apple further describes ThunderBolt:
Comments     Threshold   RE: Thunderbolt By Shadowself on
2/24/2011 3:13:16 PM , Rating: 2 So I take it you were adamantly
against Apple when they dropped Apple proprietary interconnects
(Apple Desktop Bus) and old, slow serial busses (RS-232 and
RS-422) when they launched the iMac and only supported USB?
Apple was "forcing" people to move to a newer, more universal
interconnect system. From what you are saying that was an evil
thing to have done. RS-232 was everywhere, RS-422 was common,
for Apple users Apple Desktop Bus was the "standard". It has
taken a long time for the world to move to a USB standard. Hell,
you can still buy brand new motherboards today that support the
old keyboard/mouse interconnects! So Apple moving to USB in the
late '90s was truly a bad thing to do.  Lightpeak (aka
Thunderbolt in Apple parlance) supports the USB 3 protocol over
the Lightpeak physical media.  RE: Thun