Why is it called plug and play??
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It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:
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Ah, the goodbad ol' days of jumpers and ISA cards.
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:
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norm .net wrote:
Plug and piss about for an hour
What the hell is that? Do you call that humor? I find it appalling.
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ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!
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I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
Yeah, but marketing couldn't remember that slogan, they always forgot the reboot. And you know what happens then... so "install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play" became shortened to "play".
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It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
You are not bullshitting me with your technobabble, old man. And learn to spell "ICQ"!
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
From the plug and play hardware I use it seems pretty straight forward. Webcam Keyboard Mouse Speakers Just plug them in, install drivers and then it works, never had to reboot after installing drivers. And wasn't it originally called that for mice and keyboards because you didn't have to shut down then plug your mouse/keyboard into the serial port and then boot up, you could just attach it once the OS had loaded up? I may be completely wrong by the way.
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
Have you ever written a driver installation app? It's practically impossible to do it correctly, and you certainly can't do it based solely on the help in the Windows Driver Kit. Since I've had to write several, I've had a lot more sympathy. You get the feeling the programmers in the Microsoft Drivers group are all reavers[^].
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I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
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It's called Plug & Play because no one has to manually configure hex addresses and IRQs anymore. Of course in those days a device was a device and didn't need drivers to interact with a bloated OS.
Instead every application had to write all the data being sent to the device to magic number locations in memory in a format proprietary to the brand of the device. X|
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
Well, privately, it is called plug and pray. But they can't use the word pray in public because then ACLU would demand a separation of church and state. Then they were going to name it plug and prey in honor of the potential security violations possible when adding a new hardware device to the system. So they finally decided on plug and play. As in, plug it in, then go play with something else while you wait for driver patches from the manufacturer. Momony (as in I wish I had some mo money).
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I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"
Well, let's see. Plug & Play came with Windows 95. Finally in Windows XP I can plug in my USB memory stick and use it without a hitch. Only 20,000 more devices to go I guess. Maybe by the time Windows 2025 comes out I'll be able to plug in my printer without any fuss. Matt Penner
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Then feel free to go away forever.
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norm .net wrote:
Plug and piss about for an hour
What the hell is that? Do you call that humor? I find it appalling.
Then go away and don't read "GLOBAL" forums. "Piss" is a very British way of saying "waste." In other words, we Americans might say "wasting the night away" where our brit friends would say "pissing the night away". Translated, his statement was effectively "Plug and wait around for an hour." And it was funny because he was able to use the alliteration of the P&P...
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Have you ever written a driver installation app? It's practically impossible to do it correctly, and you certainly can't do it based solely on the help in the Windows Driver Kit. Since I've had to write several, I've had a lot more sympathy. You get the feeling the programmers in the Microsoft Drivers group are all reavers[^].
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It's practically impossible to do it correctly, and you certainly can't do it based solely on the help in the Windows Driver Kit.
That make sense. Probably why so few drivers are signed. Always figured the system was at fault, not the driver developers