Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 09:56:03 PST
From: "Karl Auerbach, Empirical Tools and Technologies, 408/427-5280"
<karl(_at_)empirical(_dot_)com>
> >Hmm.. Let's back up 20 years.
>
> Let's back 8 up years. The development of the universal multi-octet
> code just started within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2/WG2. After many years of
tremendous
> efforts finally a multi-octet code was adopted by 80% of ISO voting
> members as ISO 10 646 with an intention to replace the 7-bit ASCII -
> ISO 646.
Hmmm... let's back up 500 years. Folks decided litigation by seeing
which side could come up with more supporters. And countries decided
issues with armies.
The details may be different, but saying that a technology is good
just because umpteen big, bureaucratic companies send umpteen "goers"
to umpteen meetings where umpteen votes are held, bears the same
degree of validity.
Hear, hear.
Furthermore, we can also back up 10 years, when people first started
saying that OSI was "the networking technology of tomorrow", which
everybody should drop and turn to right away, since its World Takeover
was supposedly imminent. :-)
- Ted