Never ceases to amaze

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> While not hot plugable, the Amiga OS & hardware first
> used the term plug & play about 1987 and meant it.
> When the system powered up it inquired 'Who, What,
> Where & What do you need?' to anything attached to the
> Zorro bus. Then it sorted things out, assigned
> resources and finished booting. 

Very easy to do with a single-manufacturer closed architecture.  Much harder 
with even the closed multi-vendor Mac platform.

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