Re: VAX-11/782 -- memory system?

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx wrote:

Yup. If it could be done by hand, anything could be hooked up.
In those days, the game was plug, code and play. Nowadays,
the coding step has been eliminated. Most purchasers of computing
gear and software are willing to accept this constraint in today's
market.

I've been using Linux for 7 years now, with Gnome as my preferred desktop GUI on top of X. You?

And I'm quite happy that I don't have to calculate (or measure) reflections on the PCI bus in order to find out whether a NIC will work in all the slots...

It is quite easy to predict whether hardware will work in a given configuration or not. And plug and play by and large works these days :)

-Peter
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