I was gonna say something about feeling old because I remember the ISA bus. It was dying right around the time I started installing the family's PC upgrades myself. Nice stuff was PCI but our cheap modems and sound cards were still ISA.
I guess gamers still know about PCI, but the average undergrad has probably never heard of a sound card.
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Old is remembering it as sound blaster, young is remembering it as facebook.
So begins the gap.
I was gonna say something about feeling old because I remember the ISA bus. It was dying right around the time I started installing the family's PC upgrades myself. Nice stuff was PCI but our cheap modems and sound cards were still ISA.
I guess gamers still know about PCI, but the average undergrad has probably never heard of a sound card.
Thanks for the reminder - Creative Labs and 3DFX to me bring back a ton of memories of high school.
Care to explain what you mean by "sound blaster"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster
It's a family of sound cards from the Win 9X era.
As the Wikipedia article you cite notes, SB isn't from the Win 9X era, it was a de facto standard prior to the Win 9X (i.e., late DOS era.)
Ha! Couldn't figure out the connection until I re-read the title.
I suddenly feel very old.
Make an appointment with Dr. Sbaitso. He'll get you checked out.