12 Oct
2000
12 Oct
'00
5:58 p.m.
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and had been superseded by the new.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(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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