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To: QwikSand who wrote (25859)	1/7/2000 11:08:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 64865

QS - The problems with Plug and play are primarily a result of the original PC architecture which M$ can do little to influence. Intel started down the road in 1995 with a series of PC specifications. The ISA Bus is the main culprit along with related components like the internal ports used in most PCs today. Windows2000 on a "legacy free" PC - i.e. one in which the old ports are simply not visible to the hardware (as opposed to just "hiding" them), and where the BIOS has been altered to make the OS aware of that fact, do plug and play almost perfectly. That of course currently represents about .001% of the installed base, the CPQ iPaq is the only true legacy-free PC that I know about and it doesn't really start shipping until later this month. The reason is that the current crop of M$ operating systems don't support "legacy free" - both NT and Win9X require the legacy ports just to boot. So although the elimination of those ports may have been a desirable goal, in fact the boys in Redmond made it impossible for OEMs to actually ship products with that capability.

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