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hot docking

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hot docking

The ability to place a laptop computer into its docking station without having to turn it off first. After insertion, all the peripheral devices attached to the docking station are active. See hot swap.



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Single cable Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection to laptop PC -- Legacy Ports (one parallel, one serial, two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse) -- Two fully-powered USB downstream ports -- Windows 98-98SE, 2000 and Millennium Edition compatible -- Hot docking and undocking of peripherals -- Universal solution eliminates need for additional port replicator when upgrading laptops -- SoftDock(TM) utility manages docking profiles such as printer and network defaults
The Company has extended its CardWizard family with CardWizard-Plus, adding hot docking support for select hardware, enabling users to insert and remove systems at docking stations without rebooting.
Compaq has worked closely with Microsoft to design, develop and test many of the key Windows 2000 technologies for servers, storage, desktops, and mobile clients, including PCI Hot Plug, online volume growth, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), hot docking, hot swapping of MultiBay devices, PC Card support and USB.
 
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