[UCLA-LUG] Network cards....

dannys@csua.ucla.edu dannys@csua.ucla.edu
Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:48:37 -0700


Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Linux supports PCI cards great.  Don't worry about the PnP buzzword;
>all PCI cards are kinda PnP.

I'm not sure if this is exactly the distinction that people make, but
I think that it goes like this.   PCI is a plug and play system by
design.  PnP is a specification to allow for ISA devices to have
similar plug an play characteristcs as PCI.