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From: neff@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Randall B. Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Standards, what standards?
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Date: 18 Jul 89 18:29:50 GMT
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Actually, the current implementation plan of issuing IEEE standards in 
machine readable form could be considered, in one sense, as an admission
of failure (or just lack of success) of the IEEE standards group.

Consider the implementation, on the most popular (read widely available)
``computer'':

The IBM pc (or clone) architecture:	not an IEEE standard
MS DOS:					not an IEEE standard
CGA, EGA, VGA:				not an IEEE standard
HyperTRANS:				not an IEEE standard (Proprietary!)

An alternative question might be:  why aren't IEEE standards more popular?

Randall Neff       neff@anna.stanford.edu