Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name

Andrew Mileski (dmtech@magi.com)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:30:08 -0500 (EST)

>One of our engineers is busy adding PnP to our ISA WAN board. He thought
>the system was quite nice. After reading the specs from Intel, I also
>thought is was a good system. Why do you think its useless? I would
>be very interested in any pitfalls you are aware of.

The problem is Windows95 and DOS are junk to begin with.
Then you try to graft a *GOOD* idea onto them with duct tape.
What do you think the results are gonna be like?

Plug-and-play has an *UNDESERVED* bad reputation because of
these two.

Now take LINUX, a real OS with Plug-and-Play support designed
by people who hate the way the existing Plug-and-Play systems
work. The results just *HAVE* to be good! :-)

-- Andrew E. Mileski --
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"The best programmers are lazy", so I'm told.
I haven't gotten around to seeing if it is true or not though.