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Plug and play

In computing, a plug and play (PnP) device or computer bus is one with a specification that facilitates the recognition of a hardware component in a system without the need for physical device configuration or user intervention in resolving resource conflicts. The term "plug and play" has since been expanded to a wide variety of applications to which the…

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History of device configuration

JumpersVirtual address spaceGlue logicAbstracted any hardware differencesASCII Corporation
17 related topics

Current plug and play interfaces

Mini PCIPCI ExpressMini PCI ExpressThunderboltPCMCIA
11 related topics

Overview

ComputingComputer busI/ODirect memory accessInterrupt request
20 related topics

ISA and PCI self-configuration

PCIACPI
2 related topics

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History of device configuration

ISA and PCI self-configuration

  • PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
  • ACPI

Legacy Plug and Play

Current plug and play interfaces

Non Plug and play interfaces

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Plug and play

Nodes59
Edges58
Triples21
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033898
Components1

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Plug and play

Top relations

related to history · 7
Plug and play → As, DIP, Later, Play, Plug, Rather, Some
related to MSX · 7
Plug and play → APIs, ASCII Corporation, No, On, ROM, The MSX, The ROM
related to External links · 5
Plug and play → DOC-2150 Archived, Plug, Wayback Machine, Windows, ZDNethttps

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devices configuration device system plug play hardware resources expansion computer could software jumpers user computers windows isa bus pci used

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
USBinstance ofor may be hotplug systems0.80text
IEEE 1394instance ofor may be hotplug systems0.80text
Plug and playrelated to External linksPlug0.60section
Plug and playrelated to External linksWindows0.60section
Plug and playrelated to External linksZDNethttps0.60section
Plug and playrelated to External linksDOC-2150 Archived0.60section
Plug and playrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
Plug and playrelated to historySome0.60section
Plug and playrelated to historyAs0.60section
Plug and playrelated to historyRather0.60section
Plug and playrelated to historyDIP0.60section
Plug and playrelated to historyLater0.60section

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