Subject: Re: Well done!
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/14/1997 11:25:48
> I guess you should thank apple, and at least Bill Atkinson, who wrote
> lisagraf, for encouraging that monitors be quickdraw compatible,
> standardizing where "video memory" is up there, and enforcing that all
> cards have a declaration rom on them, which has helped to make apples
> truly plug-and-play. Thank god for microsoft, is my opinion, for
> bringing us PnP in 1994. What would we have done without them. 

Yes, it's not like there was anything in the design of the Apple II that
could have given them this hint . . . :)


Rick