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From: nomad@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IEEE standard IBM PC ?
Message-ID: <3319@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 15:23:51 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.3319
Posted: Fri Mar 20 15:23:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 17:16:47 EST
References: <4373@utcsri.UUCP> <470@percival.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Lines: 7
Keywords: IBM PC, obsolete, "standardization"
Summary: What standards really mean.

In article <470@percival.UUCP>, gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells) writes:
> ...Better to spend precious time on standardizing a buss that we'd 
> LIKE to have.

We should remember that standardization committees do not come up with
any new technology, they simply recommend one from among those already 
in existence.