THE FACT THAT Dell is making a PC without a floppy drive seems to have drawn a lot of attention.
But this is part of a cunning plan Intel had to kill both the floppy and the parallel port and it's death is so far a little exaggerated, or rather, hasn't come as soon as the chip giant desired.
As we reported in July 2001, and again in June 2002, Intel thought that by the end of 2002 we'd have cheap desktops using wireless connections and Gigabit LOM in corporate desktops using its Kenai II-32 technology.
At the last Computex it warned that the serial and parallel ports, PS/2 ports and other "legacy" elements were soon for the burning.
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