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Re: To Linus or not to Linus???
de Al Klein 04/24/2006 02:44
On 23 Apr 2006 18:04:49 -0700, meow2222@care2.com wrote:
>The old vhs and beta myth... at the time of the competition between the
>systems, VHS offered longer play time, and that was the decider for
>people who wanted to record movies when not at home. Also the sound
>quality on beta was absolutely dire. Beta may have been significantly
>better in some other ways, but the play time question was the decider,
>and vhs the clear winner.
Compare apples to oranges:
Frame-sequential color vs. dot-sequential color. RCA won because they
had more money.
Crosby FM vs. the garbage we have today. Crosby lost because who
wanted something invented by an unknown.
We almost had DC power grids (NYC did well into the 1950s), but some
people were less stupid in those days.