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- From: judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org (Th.Huber)
- 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?
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- Message-ID: <judas.0jfy@tomtec.abg.sub.org>
- References: <316874cd.84247771@news.onramp.net> <1980.6672T884T1773@burst.demon.co.uk> <31723EDF.4F3F@herts.ac.uk> <barrett-1504961733420001@desm-05-03.dialup.netins.net>
- Date: 17 Apr 96 15:52:15 MET
-
- In article <barrett-1504961733420001@desm-05-03.dialup.netins.net> barrett@netins.net (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >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.
-
- Think of your SCSI-controler. You just plug it into your Amiga and it works.
-
- To get my Adaptec on the PC working, this took me over 2 hours, as you need
- to find free IRQs and free IOs first. Then comes Windows95 and detects your
- controler completely wrong !!
- I have 3 cards which claim to be "plug`n play", but none of them works as it
- should. Win95 is the most worse way to control your hardware, as there`re no
- custom drivers, just microshit, which doesn`t work as it should.
- (... so I`m down with Win3.11 again.... )
-