Talk:Autoconfig

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Autoconfig has a wider meaning than this Amiga one. Any system that attempts to automatically configure a system on a computer may be called an autoconfig (eg the joke version xkcd 416) Zeimusu | Talk page 13:32, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is arbited a typo or a real word?

The Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss spell checker has found a possible typo that a copyeditor needs help to resolve. If arbited is misspelled, it can just be corrected in this article. If arbited is a legitimate word, it should be added to the English Wiktionary (which defines words in all languages) with a definition at wikt:arbited. Feel free to leave a note in this section if you do one of those things, or if you can provide any hints about this word. Thanks! -- Elfabet (talk) 12:54, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Comparison with PCI configuration" violates Original Research / Neutral Point of View Guidelines

1. Why is it compared to PCI? Surely we only need to know the facts of its implication, not a blow-by-blow product comparison? 2. Uses unsupported and vague claims which imply non-neutral position, eg: "Autoconfig is much simpler, yet provides the same basic functions". Is it simpler? How? Why should we care? We're not shown it's simpler, nor how this remark has relevance. 3. Re: "PCI allows random access to the configuration space of devices, which requires system registers and I/O lines". So? It's an article about Autoconfig, not PCI. Why are we being told this about PCI? What relevance does it have? Re: "Autoconfig requires no such system hardware". So? It reads like a competitive product comparison, not a neutral factual article about the one topic.

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