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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: TRON (message from the project leader)
Keywords: TRON, standards, 1st technology doesn't always win
Message-ID: <1175@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 89 22:26:30 GMT
References: <389@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <6340@pdn.paradyne.com> <2296@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <2296@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>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,...
>Ford's planetary-gear transmission used in cars from the 1920s.  
 
   BTW, the planetary-gear transmission is *the* transmission in (some classes
   of) auto racing these days.