Hardware

Topics not covered here:

• CPU. Covered with assembly.

Plug and play

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_and_play

Generic name for devices which don't require you to manually configure the hardware.

Common ways to configure hardware were dipswitches and jumpers.

Dipswitch

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/dipswitc.htm

Jumper

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/j/jumper.htm

PCI

Standard used to connect devices to the computer.

Released in 1992 by Intel, dominated from 1995 to 2005, and was replaced by PCIe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_PCI

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/pci.htm

PCI Express

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

Introduced in 2004 by Intel, Dell, HP and IBM.