by LongRunner » April 25th, 2014, 12:58 am
I'm guessing it will happen about 3 to 5 years after PCI slots, along with the headers for COM ports, are out of the mainstream. Any subsequent device that really needs a negative supply (or specialty mainboards retaining the legacy connectors) can just generate one from a positive supply with a buck-boost converter — as HDDs have long used to get a –5V supply for their head preamplifiers. Any other ideas?
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.
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