tachyon_1@email.com wrote:
> As for PAR/SER dissappearing, I highly doubt it. It might be going away
> on the kind of crap I won't buy anyway (ie DELL, eMachines, etc.
> consumer desktops) but there's no way in heck they'll get rid of it
> anytime soon. There's just way too much demand from business customers
> with legacy connectivity needs. Especially in industrial, manufacturing,
> and production companies. In fact a friend of mine makes a nice living
> selling add on PCI PAR/SER boards to make up the demand for customers
> who require them. 

The second part of this paragraph seems to contradict the first part. If
people make a nice living selling parallel/serial add-on boards, that's
probably at least partly because these ports are going away in the normal
computer systems.

When there's only 10% of customers left that wants/needs them, you're
starting to find more and more motherboards (including good ones) that
don't have them anymore. And more and more of the people who need them will
use add-ons (PCI, USB). Which makes sense to me, even though that makes
these ports more expensive.

Gerhard

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