It was introduced at the exact same time as VGA and the vast majority of new motherboards still have that port. Not only that, but the PS/2 port will likely outlast the VGA port due to all of the high end keyboards out there that support it and depend on the PS/2 port for n-key rollover support. Also, keyboards aren't like displays where new ports are needed to support ever-increasing data rates. As long as people are using keyboards for input, the PS/2 port will likely remain since there is no need to replace it.
Well, I'm glad somebody else realized that its actually not metallic at all. Al2O3 is a ceramic and nearly every single crystaline ceramic is transparent when it's fully dense and a single crystal. Transparent aluminum Oxide isn't actually new at all, just manufacturing it is. I'm pretty sure most of you have heard of garnets, well they just happen to be Aluminum Oxide with around a 1ppm impurity level (I think of chromium oxide) theres actually a few precious stones made out of aluminum oxide. The real thing thats notable is that they were able to manufacture this fully dense single crystal structure, which is very hard to do sometimes.
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It was introduced at the exact same time as VGA and the vast majority of new motherboards still have that port. Not only that, but the PS/2 port will likely outlast the VGA port due to all of the high end keyboards out there that support it and depend on the PS/2 port for n-key rollover support. Also, keyboards aren't like displays where new ports are needed to support ever-increasing data rates. As long as people are using keyboards for input, the PS/2 port will likely remain since there is no need to replace it.
She's just concerned about electro-gonorrhea, the noisy killer.
Well, I'm glad somebody else realized that its actually not metallic at all. Al2O3 is a ceramic and nearly every single crystaline ceramic is transparent when it's fully dense and a single crystal. Transparent aluminum Oxide isn't actually new at all, just manufacturing it is. I'm pretty sure most of you have heard of garnets, well they just happen to be Aluminum Oxide with around a 1ppm impurity level (I think of chromium oxide) theres actually a few precious stones made out of aluminum oxide. The real thing thats notable is that they were able to manufacture this fully dense single crystal structure, which is very hard to do sometimes.