Dennis Allen's September editorial quotes Tom R. Halfhill's description of Plug and Play for PCs as ``won't be painless, won't come cheap, and will likely take years.'' However, I can tell you one major platform where Plug and Play has been the accepted norm for a decade: Apple's Macintosh. Even when the Mac II came out in 1987, with its NuBus expansion slots, users had only to insert a board and (at most) drop an extension into their system folder. I guess I'm just disappointed that the Mac wasn't even mentioned in the editorial.
Chris Hanson
chanson@mcs.com
Pittsburgh, PA
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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Plug and Play Not Exactly New
