Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RISC vs CISC (rational discussion, not religious wars) Message-ID: <7074@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Nov 89 18:55:01 GMT References: <503@ctycal.UUCP> <2@zds-ux.UUCP> <508@ctycal.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article <508@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby) writes: > Does a car > manufacturer really have a significant advantage over his competitor because > he introduces a new feature a year before the competition? Depends on the feature and how well they can sell it. More efficient engines, no. More powerful engines, no. Fuel injection, turbochargers, etc..? No. But the early anti-lock braking systems did rather well, as did Oldsmobile's marketing of what's really a fairly ordinary engine: the Quad-4. And then there's the Ford Taurus effect. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11 had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it." -- Tom Neff