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From: lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (message from the project leader)
Keywords: TRON, standards, operating systems, distributed systems
Message-ID: <269@wc8.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 10 Jul 89 07:22:08 GMT
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In article <26118@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>
>The original posting that sparked this diversion gave several other
>examples. One was Edison pushing DC over AC (the "obviously" superior
>approach). Perhaps some of the EEs can correct me, but I was under the
>impression that DC was making a comeback for power transmission due to
>semiconductor technology. Perhaps in retrospect Edison was less
>pigheaded than visionary?  He was "wrong" given the short run technical
>progress curve but not for the long?

I don't know whether DC is making a comeback in power transmission, but
even if it is, Edison was wrong *at the time*. He hadn't ever heard about
semiconductors, but still thought DC was superior over AC, even with the 
technology of that time. History has proven that he was definitely wrong
on that point.


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