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hot plugging

Last modified: Thursday, February 01, 2007

The ability to add and remove devices to a computer while the computer is running and have the operating system automatically recognize the change. Two external bus standards -- Universal Serial Bus (USB ) and IEEE 1394 -- support hot plugging. This is also a feature of PCMCIA.
Hot plugging is also called hot swapping.

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