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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: 11 Jan 2025 20:00:07 GMT
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:06:05 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 10/01/2025 22:15, rbowman wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:27:06 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> The natural tendency in a free market is that the best technology
>>> rises to the top, becomes ubiquitous, and everybody uses it. Diversity
>>> in technology is not desirable,. Diversity in its application is,
>>> somewhat.
>> 
>> Like natural selection I would say an adequate technology rises to the
>> top, not always the best.
> 
> Well it depends on what 'best' applies to.
> 
> Take VHS - technically inferior to Betamax but best marketed.

I had that in mind -- along with the 8088 processors and MSDOS. IBM had 
used the 8085 in the System 23 so were familiar with Intel and wanted to 
use readily available and inexpensive 8-bit peripherals in a product they 
didn't really believe in. And here we are.