> but 1981 computer technology wasn’t up to the job. I think I would disagree. The particular implementation may have been crap, but if the necessary mechanical bits were up to the task, the state of the art of electronics at that time was perfectly able to keep up. (And would have needed a long development time in order to get all the bugs and quirks out, which I think is what went wrong with that engine. This was a New Thing, and the various subsystems might have needed to be mixes of proactive and reactive logic, the partitioning and balance could well have been completely wrong in the early designs meaning that it might _never_ work right, as initially designed. It would have been a fun engineering challenge, and I'm absolutely confident it could have worked well. Eventually.)
Mind you, that was around when I was actually designing computers for a living. And commercial- and mil-spec parts and second sources were still a thing. Programs would have been hand-crafted and kilobytes in size, with nothing in there that wasn't completely justified, and well understood. Not like today. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
