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Article #82639Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: Graham Thurlwell
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:24
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:24
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On the 17 Sep 2008, David Alex Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> wrote: > Anssi Saari wrote: >> I seem to also remember the iMacs did popularize USB in the late >> 1990s, with the first iMac which came out in 1998. So that would be >> the start of plug and play on the Macs. > I seem to recall plug-and-play far preceding the iMac, but sometimes my > recall isn't worth much. It wasn't called plug-and-play, but a lot of stuff for the BBC micro and its successors would work straight away. This was because the drivers etc were in ROMs on the card or peripheral. The Beeb had massive expandability. -- Graham Thurlwell. Jades' First Encounters Site. http://www.jades.org/ffe.htm The best Frontier: First Encounters site on the Web.
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