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From: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II Obsolete?
Message-ID: <1990May9.164557.16056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 16:45:57 GMT
References: <3960@pluto.dss.com> <1422@carroll1.cc.edu> <3964@pluto.dss.com>
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In article <3964@pluto.dss.com> lfischer@pluto.dss.com (Larry Fischer) writes:
>In article <1422@carroll1.cc.edu>, dtroup@carroll1.cc.edu (David C. Troup - Skunk Works) writes:
>> In article <3962@pluto.dss.com> lfischer@pluto.dss.com (Larry Fischer) writes:
>> >In article <12792@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>> >>In article <3960@pluto.dss.com> lfischer@pluto.dss.com (Larry Fischer) writes:
>> >> The SR-71 is another example of a venerable design that was never
>> >> surpassed.
>> >the sr-71 was just retired.
>> 	Yea, and several sections/systems are STILL classified! And it's still
>but we are talking about OBSOLETE...I would say retired makes it obsolete...

Not necessarily.  The Air Force retired the SR-71 because it was more expensive
to operate than spy satellites that do the job _almost_ as well.  Note that I
said "almost as well;" there are some things, I'm sure, that the SR-71 can do
that no satellite will ever be able to do.  It's all what happens when money
gets short.    

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