Legacy-free PC Legacy-free PC A legacy-free PC is a type of personal computer that lacks a floppy drive, legacy ports, and an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus (or sometimes, any internal expansion bus at all). According to Microsoft, "The basic goal for these requirements is that the operating system, devices, and end users cannot detect the presence of the following: ISA slots or devices; legacy floppy disk controller (FDC); and PS/2, serial, parallel, and game ports." The legacy ports are usually replaced with Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports. A USB adapter may be used if an older device must be connected to
Parallel and counter parallel Parallel and counter parallel In music, a parallel chord (relative chord, German: "Parallelklang") is an auxiliary chord derived from one of the primary triads and sharing its function: subdominant parallel, dominant parallel, and tonic parallel. The term is derived from German theory and the writings of Hugo Riemann (see: Riemannian theory). For example, the major and and minor and . The parallel chord (but "not" the counter parallel chord) of a major chord will always be the minor chord whose root is a minor third "down" from the major chord's root, inversely the parallel chord of a minor chord will