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** Although many of them are getting better about that. Often the driver is now on the device itself, or it uses a standard 'profile.' Pending no problems between the two devices, it'll install itself. Many devices are now Plug, Wait about 30 seconds, N Play.
*** ...as long as you have Windows, and of exactly the same version the developers of a "Windows N compatible" gadget had. Plugging it into an older Windows, Mac, *BSD or Linux box won't result in the same ([[Completely Missing the Point|for one thing, Linux loads the drivers immediately and doesn't need 30 seconds to install a friggin USB stick]]). Sometimes other OS get those drivers as soon as someone figures out how to circumvent the non-standard switch itself. Sometimes not.
** USB-C more seriously aims to become this, though there are certainly hurdles and peculiarities with the spec that make this not quite a reality. Typically a single Type C cable could handle power, and data just like classic USB ports, though there are exceptions even to this.<ref>Some cables are sold without support for data, or for support for high current devices.</ref> Theoretically it also supports more standards, allowing for things like display signals, but support for this is less universal.
* If it has a CPU, you can run NetBSD on it, period. Linux is a close second.
** If a piece of software has been built to be POSIX-compliant, it'll run on just about every Unix-based system out there, or be 90% of the way to working. A simpler piece of software could be made once and then immediately work on $20 embedded boards, Android phones, Macs, and million-dollar supercomputers.
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** There are a lot of standards from the IBM PC that are essentially plug and play. At least in theory. But these standards got incompatible upgrades over time. Only three today are both forwards (supposedly) and backwards compatible: USB, SATA, and PCI-Express.
* The [[Trope Namer]] may be the [[wikipedia:Plug and play#ISA and PCI self-configuration|ISA bus PnP standard]] from the early 1990s. It allowed peripheral cards inserted into one of a PC's ISA slots to automatically determine which IRQ and DMA channels it should use. Previous generations of ISA cards required the person installing them to manually flip DIP switches on the cards to set the IRQ and DMA channel assignment; woe be to the user if you accidentally set two cards to use the same channel.
* The claim to fame for some brands of single board computers.
** One of the main reasons for [[wikipedia: Makey Makey|Makey Makey]] is that it allows one to interface their computer with things like play-doh, bananas, and other objects with the right conductive properties as input devices.
** For more technical users, [[Wikipedia:Arduino|Arduino]], [[Wikipedia:Raspberry Pi|Raspberry Pi]] and other single board computers are commonly used to interface items not designed to be used with a computer.
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