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In article <33FC7B8F.6AB21BA4@jlms.com>,
	Adriel Ickler <adriel@jlms.com> writes:
>IMHO: Plug and play is evil, a work of the devil. it should be
>eliminated from the earth.
>
>I had a customer who needed an upgrade of His 486, I gave him a P133/32
>megs ram, etc and I convinced him that NT 4.0 was MUCH more stable than
>Win 95 (I never reccomend linux for Users, they have a hard enough time
>understanding how to use the GUI). anywho, he had one of the most evil
>devices I have ever encountered: a USR WinModem (Ack) this device had
>absolutely NO jumpers of any kind, and the only way to use this device
>was in Win95 or Win 3.1

Actually the WinModem's REAL problem is not it's plug and play
ability, it is the fact that it requires a driver that needs to
do most of the work done traditionally done by the modem itself!

Why they would choose to do this is totally beyond my understanding.  
The current trend is towards SMARTER io devices which handle more
on their own!

>If hardware developers really like PnP, hopefully they will get it in
>their heads to allow these damnable creations to be configured via a
>boot disk, that disables PnP and "nails" the base_io/irq,etc so other
>OS's see it normally.
>
>anyway, my $.02/venting...
>

Well, PNP is really only an issue/problem for old ISA-type cards.  I 
think the problem will go away as we get USB and other types of 
peripheral connections.  Plug and play DOES work for the most part
on Linux systems, but that support is not yet included with the
standard distributions.  You need to download the new tools.

-- 
     Peter F Curran
     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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