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Article #54779Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux
From: Darin Johnson
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 00:00
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>While I agree and buy non-pnp whenever possible. Unfortunatly that's >getting to be impossible to do. Even monitors and keyboards these days >are pnp. (I know;-)) But monitors and keyboards don't have plug in boards. Plug-and-Play is more than just automatic handling of IRQ's and IO ranges, it includes a software side as well. Thus, Plug-and-Play external modems, keyboards, monitors, etc, are possible, even though there's nothing new or unusual about them. It just means they either come with a Win95 setup disk (that the "add new hardware" control panel can use), or something like that. In short, Plug-and-Play doesn't mean the hardware is incompatible with non Wintel machines, thus a Plug-and-Play label is not a good reason to avoid a particular hardware product (not even for political reasons). -- Darin Johnson darin@usa.net.delete_me
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa64,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: darin@usa.net.delete_me (Darin Johnson) Subject: Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux Date: 1997/09/14 Message-ID: <5vj9qe$1730@lightning.asahi-net.or.jp> X-Deja-AN: 272632412 References: <rgw-ya023080002907971402460001@newshost.unimelb.edu.au> <33EAC7FE.8D8D2C2C@syd.net.au> <slrn5uts20.ta3.mjr@laulujoutsen.pc.helsinki.fi> <4u7mdlwgn3.fsf@schroedinger.adelaide.maptek.com.au> <33f79556.22571665@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <5t8d26$1gv$1@gail.ripco.com> <xohn2mf8t0h.fsf@mud.imperium.net> <33f8b83d.10600351@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <5taiiv$83n$1@gail.ripco.com> <340939AC.794BDF32@cig.mot.com> <5ucke1$c7s$1@gail.ripco.com> <340FDBF8.41C67EA6@cig.mot.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@connectnet.com X-Trace: news.connectnet.com 874197145 6306 (None) 207.110.0.50 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (http://www.connectnet.com/) Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x