Obsolete? (Was: Re: Speaking of cubes)

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Fri Oct 13 00:58:06 2000

Seems to me Obselete is a marketing term, and therefore means very little in
the field of machines. In documentation it's valuable - this version obseletes
the older version because it has these revisions and is more accurate. A
technology can be obselete - tubes (valves) have been almost uniformly
obseleted by semiconductors of various types. Is an amplifier based on this
technology obselete? Hard to say, does it still make a good sound? Can you
still get parts for it? I wouldn't call it obselete then.

> Obsolete, however, was when the old equipment was in little or no use
> and had been superseded by the new.
> - don
>


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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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