Editing Plug and play (section)

===MSX===
The [[MSX]] system, released in 1983,<ref>{{cite book |author=Gordon Laing |date=2004
|title=Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=967VdXdc5w4C&q=msx+announced&pg=RA1-PT101 |publisher=Ilex Press|isbn=9781904705390
}}</ref> was designed to be plug and play from the ground up, and achieved this by a system of slots and subslots, where each had its own [[virtual address space]], thus eliminating device addressing conflicts in its very source. No jumpers or any manual configuration was required, and the independent address space for each slot allowed very cheap and commonplace chips to be used, alongside cheap [[glue logic]].
On the software side, the drivers and extensions were supplied in the card's own ROM, thus requiring no disks or any kind of user intervention to configure the software. The ROM extensions [[hardware abstraction|abstracted any hardware differences]] and offered standard APIs as specified by [[ASCII Corporation]].