Hi,

for the "typical" PC user and given that PnP works it shurely is an 
advantage to have PnP. Their advantage may be our disadvantage, 
and the majority rules the market. I had some cards, DE-220 
something if I remember correctly, that had an additional jumper or 
dipswitch to select if the card was configured by its 
jumpers/switches or by a PnP Bios, thus being an advantage for 
everyone. Must be the couple of cents such a card would increase 
the cost of production that stopped them making it.

mike



On 29 Sep 2000, at 17:24, dribbling@thekeyboard.com wrote:

> If what you're talking about is Plug-and-Play then I would
> much prefer not to have it.  I prefer the good old days when
> you set jumpers to I/O address and IRQs you /knew/ were free
> and they stay put.  I would happily trade the need to set a
> card up once (and know it would stay set) than have a
> machine's firmware move things around every now and again,
> screwing other things up in the process.  I think we'll just
> have to agree to differ on this one.