Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 13:20:22 2001

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:11:29AM -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> But K-Jetronic (CIS) isn't timed at all- every cylinder port is
> getting fuel at all times. The fuel distributor controls how much
> by the area of the slots exposed int he control plunger as it
> moves up and down in response the the motions of the airflow sensor.

For a moment I thought that paragraph was about computers (maybe the *other*
CIS in another thread?). After all, computer designers have to deal with
the same issues (synchronous or asynchronous?) as you describe here.

So... have there been cycles in car designs as different tradeoffs become
popular with the designers and then become unpopular?

At least cars don't have wire-wrapped backplanes. I guess car wiring _is_
pretty hairy stuff, though.

-- Derek
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 13:20:22 BST