To the person who said "Most people don't need legacy ports"
You have probably never worked in infrastruture at a company larger then 50 people. It's easy for you to upgrade the printers, scanners, computers ect in your home.... Try doing the same thing when you have a 100,000 computers and 80,000 different accessories that use Serial/Parallel spread over 25 countries for various things. There are benefits to serial and parallel that some of the new technologies have yet to achieve (including driver support in proprietary electronics interfaces that only use DB9 serial Comm).
The vast majority of the worlds large electronic systems still use serial and parallel (in some form) to interface between computers and the unit (take our UPS's that run our remote monitoring servers) ect.... Massive shipping companies like UPS and Fedex use the serial interface on many of their mechanical diagnostic tools, ect ect.
I was just thinking the other day how annoying it is when the market as a whole tries to force people into a new spec without at least offering support (maybe not on every model, but a few) for past standards. The computing world's major revenue source is not the zit faced WoW gamer and his 4 GPU Lan party/porn theater computer, it's the businesses with massive infrastructure that have spent millions on writing programs that are compatible with every computer from DOS ----- Win XP (many pieces of mission critical hardware do not support USB ect).
We need that backwards compatibility, so hopefully vendors will keep it, because if they don't Enterprise businesses will just take their billions of dollars elsewhere. I wish everything had a USB port too, but it doesn't. Until then, I would like to be able to keep my hardware current, but only without running the risk I may not be able to perform my job function.
no offense thought, but just buy a 15$ parallel card. when i buy a state of the art ROG gaming mobo it just kills me to see DB9, 2 ps/2 ports, parallel, floppy controlers, ATA, BNC, PCIv1 etc.... Im not pushing you into a standard, I just what the basics so I get a blazzingly fast system.
6x SATA 4x PCIEv2 6 ram slots and a shit load of FW and USB. thats all gamers need.
If you work for a latency intensive business the buy one of those MOBOs. people like you are forcing me into latency standards!
Pretty sure computer companies make more from individual consumers than from huge corporations. In which case, support for legacy interfaces is all but useless.
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To the person who said "Most people don't need legacy ports"
You have probably never worked in infrastruture at a company larger then 50 people. It's easy for you to upgrade the printers, scanners, computers ect in your home.... Try doing the same thing when you have a 100,000 computers and 80,000 different accessories that use Serial/Parallel spread over 25 countries for various things. There are benefits to serial and parallel that some of the new technologies have yet to achieve (including driver support in proprietary electronics interfaces that only use DB9 serial Comm).
The vast majority of the worlds large electronic systems still use serial and parallel (in some form) to interface between computers and the unit (take our UPS's that run our remote monitoring servers) ect.... Massive shipping companies like UPS and Fedex use the serial interface on many of their mechanical diagnostic tools, ect ect.
I was just thinking the other day how annoying it is when the market as a whole tries to force people into a new spec without at least offering support (maybe not on every model, but a few) for past standards. The computing world's major revenue source is not the zit faced WoW gamer and his 4 GPU Lan party/porn theater computer, it's the businesses with massive infrastructure that have spent millions on writing programs that are compatible with every computer from DOS ----- Win XP (many pieces of mission critical hardware do not support USB ect).
We need that backwards compatibility, so hopefully vendors will keep it, because if they don't Enterprise businesses will just take their billions of dollars elsewhere. I wish everything had a USB port too, but it doesn't. Until then, I would like to be able to keep my hardware current, but only without running the risk I may not be able to perform my job function.
no offense thought, but just buy a 15$ parallel card.
when i buy a state of the art ROG gaming mobo it just kills me to see DB9, 2 ps/2 ports, parallel, floppy controlers, ATA, BNC, PCIv1 etc....
Im not pushing you into a standard,
I just what the basics so I get a blazzingly fast system.
6x SATA
4x PCIEv2
6 ram slots
and a shit load of FW and USB.
thats all gamers need.
If you work for a latency intensive business the buy one of those MOBOs.
people like you are forcing me into latency standards!
Pretty sure computer companies make more from individual consumers than from huge corporations. In which case, support for legacy interfaces is all but useless.