Re: tlug: Sparc boot

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

>Yes, well Sun has "plug-n-play" that actually works. Not sure how
>wintel messed that up so much. 

I always hear people say that, but I've never seen PnP not work myself.
I sometimes wonder if anyone actually has.  I have read that some of the
early PnP cards did not hold to the standard very well and therefore
failed on PnP, but I never encountered one personally.  Just lucky,
maybe

>
>Now you know why its called a "Pizza box", you just lift the lid and
>drool over the contents. :)
>
>On second thought, don't drool too much, I leaned from my son that
>drooling on electronics does not bode well for the electronics. He's
>the only 1 year old I know of with his own fax machine, albeit
>broken. The new one is safely out reach :)
>
>Andy
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