In computing, a plug and play device or computer bus, is one with a specification that facilitates the discovery of a hardware component in a system without the need for physical device configuration or user intervention in resolving resource conflicts.
Plug and play devices can be due to boot-time assignment of device resources and to hotplug systems such as USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire).
Read more about Plug And Play: History of Device Configuration, First Attempts At Self-configuration, ISA and PCI Self-configuration, Plug and Play, Current Plug and Play Interfaces
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