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Definitions of plug and play:

• A standardized interface for the automatic recognition and installation of interface cards and devices on a PC.
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• A security card or cable card you get from a cable operator that decrypts scrambled cable signals on the sets. It replaced set-top boxes, and is an aspect of digital television.
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• A standard that gives computer users the ability to plug a device into a computer and have the device recognized automatically. This function is performed by the operating system.
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• Plug and Play is a technology that can reduce conflicts between computer devices by automatically configuring them at startup. However, for it to work properly your BIOS and your Operating System both must support PnP, and the device being configured must be a Plug and Play device. The technology actually works pretty good but there can be problems when you mix legacy devices with PnP.
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• The ability to install equipment with little or no setup.
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• A term used to describe an accessory device that works immediately when connected to a computer, without the need for installation procedures, reconfiguration, or restarting the computer. One common example is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device.
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• A technology for configuring I/O devices to use non-conflicting resources in a host. Resources managed by Plug and Play include I/O address ranges, memory address ranges, IRQs, and DMA channels.
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• An automated installation process used to connect peripheral devices such as digital cameras to computers. When new devices are plugged into the computer the computer recognizes the device and prompts the user to choose setup options and finish installation. USB devices are plug and play.
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• A feature designed to make the installation of new devices to a computer system such as a printer, network card, or a modem automatic. Ideally, Plug and Play enables you to change the components and settings on your computer without having to know a great deal about those settings, becasue the computer will recognize the optimal configuration for the device and adjust those settings accordingly.
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• An industry-wide standard for add-on hardware which indicates that it will configure itself, thus eliminating the need to set jumpers, and making installation of the product quick and easy.
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• An identifying standard in the PC market that assures the user that the product is as simple or automatic to install as possible; both hardware and software installation. Because this often does not work as well as claimed, it is also commonly known and "plug and pray."
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• An Intel-developed hardware standard created to automate the setup and configuration of hardware devices connected to a computer. In theory, it allows you to "plug" a device into the computer and "play" it without going through a complicated setup process.
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• Indicates the decoder can be installed by simple plug-in play steps.
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• a Microsoft Windows standard for automating and simplifying the installation and configuration of device drivers after a hardware device has been installed; requires co-ordination of the BIOS, the operating system, the device and its drivers
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• refers to when an item of hardware or software configures
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• Plug and Play is a term used in the computer field to describe a computer's ability to have new devices, normally peripherals, added to it without having to reconfigure or (ideally) restart the computer. There are a number of terms or variations that describe similar abilities, including PnP, and hot swapping. The term Plug and Play is most associated with Microsoft, who started using it in reference to their Windows 95 product. ...
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