Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:20:42 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Michael Neuffer <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist |
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On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote: > > > There is already a project working on ISA PnP. > > Say, isn't PnP made to for specific motherboards (read x86) and operating > > system (read Windows 95)? > > > > Whatever happened to idea that I can buy one card that works for Mac, > > Alpha, Sparc, Pentium, PowerPC, etc, etc, etc,???? Reminds me of PCI. > > Don't you think PCI Pnp beats the purpose of PCI? > > PCI is plug and play (near enough) already. You just haven't been counting > the number of jumpers you set on PCI cards 8)
Did you ever try to boot off a PCI SCSI controller with a BIOS/firmware for i86 in a MIPS or Alpha machine ?
That works only with very few controllers/motherboard combinations.
Mike
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