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mdufour@CA*.OR* (Marc Dufour) wrote:

>    or worse, that the most commercially successful on the market will be a 
>moronic design that is better marketed by an underwater-Microsoft-to-be and 
>thus betamaxes(1) any other superior design into oblivion.
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>(1) Betamaxing: technically superior technology that is sidelined in favour 
>of a better marketed moronic design, just like the SONY betamax video format 
>that ran circles around VHS.

I don't think that you can draw this analogy - unlike MS Windows and Sony
Betamax, a rebreather is not a platform for running applications software,
and therefore doesn't have to be "the standard".  IMO, rebreathers are
more correctly compared with aircraft - their operation is controlled by a
combination of operator actions and embedded systems, which upon failure
could subject the user to serious injury or death.

In this light, "moronic designs" will have to compete against well-engineered
products on a cost/usability/performance basis.

Christina

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