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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: TRON (message from the project leader)
Keywords: TRON, standards, operating systems, distributed systems
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Date: 7 Jul 89 12:43:46 GMT
References: <389@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <6340@pdn.paradyne.com>
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In article <6340@pdn.paradyne.com> alan@oz.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) writes:
>TRON's technical merits
>(or lack thereof) will simply be irrelevant.  The first economically-viable
>infrastructure will always swamp any and all competition.

     This is not always true.  Witness Edison and his promotion of DC power,
which was supplanted by Tesla's AC system, or CBS's attempt to standardize
on spinning wheel color television, or Sony Betamax videotape systems, or even
Ford's planetary-gear transmission used in cars from the 1920s.  While all of
these systems were in place first as a "standard" and showed great promise,
they were all replaced by later, better technology.  Being first is not always
a guarantee of success.


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