Editing Plug and play (section)

===NuBus===
[[File:Radius PrecisionColor Series 24X 1993 1 front.JPG|thumb|141x141px|A NuBus expansion card without jumpers or DIP switches]]
In 1984, the [[NuBus]] architecture was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15573 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical |year=1984 |title=An examination of architectures for interfacing to the NuBus|hdl=1721.1/15573 |type=Thesis |last1=Pasieka |first1=Michael Stephen }}</ref> as a platform agnostic peripheral interface that fully automated device configuration. The specification was sufficiently intelligent that it could work with both [[Endianness|big endian]] and [[little endian]] computer platforms that had previously been mutually incompatible. However, this agnostic approach increased interfacing complexity and required support chips on every device which in the 1980s was expensive to do, and apart from its use in [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]]es and [[NeXT]] machines, the technology was not widely adopted.