🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <326108E9.3A82@worldnet.att.net>, Karen Chiu
<chiu-scharf@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Doug wrote:
> > 
>  
> > EASE-OF-UPGRADES:
> > Plug-and-Play works (on the newest systems). Plug-and-PRAY works on PCs
> > over one year old. The only time that PNP has been found not to work in
> > the last year or so is when either A) the PC manufacturer did not follow
> > PNP standards precisely; or B) the manufacturer of the upgraded item did
> > not follow PNP standards precisely. Also, PNP does NOT work well on
> > networked PCs. 
> 
> The Plug and Play Standard has nothing to do with networks, other than
> the newer network adapter cards ARE plug and play. BTW, after less than
> positive experiences with PnP, I was pleased when I installed a system
> for a client yesterday. It had a very new motherboard (Intel Venus) and
> all recent design add-on cards and motherboards. '95 found EVERYTHING,
> recognized the monitor, the 870CXI printer, and configured everything]
> correctly. This was the first time I didn't have to go in and mess with
> the system settings.
> 
I went through the ordeal of hooking up a peer-to-peer Win95 network using
so-called plug and play ethernet cards. To make a long story short, it took
me close to 10 solid days to finally get it all to work. The problem turned
out the the plug and play cards were configuring themselves incorrectly. I
spent countless of hours taking the cards out, reinstalling them,
reinstalling the software, checking, double checking and triple checking
the networking Win95 configuration. A real pain the in butt. Conversely,  I
set up a Mac ethernet with five Macs in under 15 minutes a couple of days
later.

-- 
Michael Alexander
malex@kersur.net