On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Colin K wrote: > > Good thing we can still buy brand new, cheap motherboards with an even > better real-time port on them :) Everyone says the parallel port is legacy > and could disappear any day, but when they still put them on dirt-cheap > boards like the D510MO, it suggests to me that the parallel port and the x86 > PC architecture will likely die a shared death.
Rumors of the death of the PCI slot are even more exaggerated than the rumors of the death of the parallel port, in my opinion. I think many people get the mistaken idea that EMC users depend on the existence of the parallel port. Whether or not it's becoming extinct, this is not true. Some configurations do require it, and PCI parallel ports are available for these configurations even if they become hard to find on motherboards. They have not, yet. Newegg (first vendor I checked) has over 50 (!) options if you want to buy a PCI parallel port. They start at $9.99. (2/3 of my EMC machines don't use the parallel port, but I think they all have them anyway.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
