Never ceases to amaze
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Thu Apr 10 09:50:02 CDT 2003
> While not hot plugable, the Amiga OS & hardware first
> used the term plug & play about 1987 and meant it.
> When the system powered up it inquired 'Who, What,
> Where & What do you need?' to anything attached to the
> Zorro bus. Then it sorted things out, assigned
> resources and finished booting.
Very easy to do with a single-manufacturer closed architecture. Much harder
with even the closed multi-vendor Mac platform.
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