P&P (memory)

ZXNet echo conference «hardware.zx»

From Aleksandr Majorov To Alexandr Kolotuhin 19 May 2000

Hello Alexandr! 12 May 00 00:02, Alexandr Kolotukhin -> Yuri Teslenko: [skipped] VV>>> This is not Plug and Play YT>> Plug & Pray is also good. AK> Explain to a stupid person what this means? Plug & Play... Oh!!!! This is another provocation of the secret spies of Bill Gates and others! But, as always, it failed! According to the plan, this should be a technology that called Plug & Play (don't get me wrong! :-))))) I mean, you plug a new device into your computer, turn it on... And then the computer _itself_ detects a new piece of hardware, _itself_ determines what it is, _itself_ installs the driver and selects addresses/interrupts. And you just start working with this device, as if he had been standing here for 33 years. But they wanted the best, but they did it the same way as always. And they came up with Plug & Pray technology - “insert and pray.” The beginning is the same: you plug the hardware into the computer and turn it on... And then you start praying, praying and praying! Because no one knows what will happen! Then the system simply won’t notice the device, it will say that a new monitor has been found (even though you connected sound!!). And in addition it will inform you that this monitor For some reason it can’t display pictures! Sometimes your device is found twice! For a long time I convinced my Windows that I have only one sound system, and not two, and it should stand according to normaladdresses/interruptions, and not according to what came into your head. I barely convinced you! :-))) There was a case when I was looking for an AWE 64 sound system. The first time she found nothing. The second time she unsurely found AWE 16... For the third time she confidently stated that AWE 32 had been found, but when I met the strange number 64, I thought about it... and accepted it Solomon's solution - found _two_ AWE 32 ;-))) Alexand