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- From: wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- 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: 16 Apr 1996 13:59:42 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
- Sender: wahlmann@informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
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- 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>
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- 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.
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- By whom's definition? If the driver is installed in an automatic way, it is by MY
- definition Plug&Play.
-
- Juergen.
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