AutoConfig is a feature of Amiga computers which gives features similar to today's Plug and Play, although it was introduced in 1985 with the A1000, years before Windows 95. Amiga is the name of a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... Plug and Play is a term used in the computer field to describe a computers ability to have new devices, normally peripherals, added to it without having to restart the computer. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is about a computer. ... Windows 95 (codename Chicago) is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical operating system released on August 24, 1995 by the Microsoft Corporation. ...

When the computer is switched on, AmigaOS interrogates each expansion slot in turn and automatically allocates each expansion card resources, i.e. address space, depending on what is installed in the slot. In the case of a memory card, the OS would also add the memory to the available system memory. AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. ...

External links

• Why Amigas are great computers (http://www.cleverstuff.net/pers/amigawhy.html)