Re: uninstallation

["P.A. Petricone" <petrico@ixc.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <am-info@essential.org>
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: uninstallation


|In reply to P.A. Petricone's message sent 1/25/98 9:28 PM:
|
|>I think there are greater problems on the horizon. The nature of this
|>industry
|>is non-cooperative and will stonewall standards as long as possible. When TV
|>made it's debut, it was a bit more than the announcement of '95. People went
|>out to the local appliance store for the evening to witness this marvel.
What
|>is also remarkable is that the television industry and the FCC had the whole
|>works designed and standardized before roll-out. The NTSC has undergone one
|>change in it's history - color. My 20 year old Blackstripe displayed the
S.B.
|>today in the same fashion that it did when it was new.
|
|Interesting. But a great presumption is being made here, and I think an
|incorrect one. We seem to be thinking of computers as something like
|VCRs, where the standards are invisible, non-proprietary, and don't
|matter much to the consumer.

snip....................

The way I read it, it looks to me as though you made the VCR analogy to the PC
on your own. I am fairly familiar with their similarities and distinctions and
was thinking of neither. The science of computers for consumers is still a
long way from the level of maturity where a "VCR Vs Beta" war can happen. That
conflict would not have even taken place when it did were there not global
analog video standards for them to rely on.


Regards