From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7961088baf0e34d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada Date: 1996/08/29 Message-ID: <504059$o8o@dfw.dfw.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 177259293 references: <321DA0F3.34BC@lmtas.lmco.com> <321f0f6d.0@red.interact.net.au> <32266B97.3C8F@dynamite.com.au> organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32266B97.3C8F@dynamite.com.au>, Alan Brain wrote: >But disagree: a reasonable analogy, showing that superior marketing, or >even >just availability of more titles sooner, has, in the past, beaten a >superior >technical solution. I seem to remember the biggest driving factor with VHS was the appearance of the 6 hour mode. This made it possible to put 3 2-hour movies on a single tape, which at that time were expensive (and Beta tapes, which could only store 4.5 hours at the most, cost a little more). This was pushed heavily by salespeople as I recall, because consumers wanted to squeeze everything they could out of their dollar (including the fact that, illegal or otherwise, buying recorded movies back then was prohibitively expensive, and the ability to record 3 movies onto one tape was quite attractive as a storage device) >The situation vis-a-vis Ada should be obvious to any >Rational person. Oh, sure, leave the other Ada compiler companies out of it! :-) -- Visit the Ada 95 Booch Components Homepage: www.ocsystems.com/booch This is not your father's Ada -- lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada