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Le 05/11/2010 17:39, Robert A Duff a �crit :
> "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> 
>> BTW: do you want to see my collection of things where the most succesful
>> design failed to be the most popular one?
> 
> I do, although I'm not sure you said what you meant above ;-).
> 
By "most successful" I meant "technically best".

Mac vs PC, VMS vs Unix, Betamax vs VHS, OS/2 vs Windows to name a few...
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