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- From: barrett@netins.net (Marc N. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:33:42 -0500
- Organization: Pegasus Consultants Company
- Message-ID: <barrett-1504961733420001@desm-05-03.dialup.netins.net>
- References: <316874cd.84247771@news.onramp.net> <1980.6672T884T1773@burst.demon.co.uk> <31723EDF.4F3F@herts.ac.uk>
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- In article <31723EDF.4F3F@herts.ac.uk>, Morgan <cs4dx@herts.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- >The Amiga has a system called Autoconfig that allows devices to be
- recognised without
- >a large amount of setting up to be done.
- >
- >This is plug and play, ten years before the words were thought up.
-
- Autoconfig != "plug and play". By definition, if you need to install a
- driver to get something to work, it isn't plug and play.
-
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- Marc Barrett
- barrett@netins.net
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