Air Flow Measurement

tom cloud cloud at hagar.ph.utexas.edu
Wed Nov 20 18:22:30 GMT 1996


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>Perhaps it's this difficult precisely because it is a huge
>capitalistic venture.  The formula for Coke is probably 
>not a huge technical surprise, but keeping it a secret 
>maintains its value.
>
>>You know -- if someone would market an "open architecture" (a la S-100
>>bus, IBM-PC) efi, I believe he could make a whale of a lot of money.
>
>Most drivers just want to get in the car and drive.  The number
>of people who care more about how the engine works than about
>how many doors the mini-van has is very (sadly) small I'd wager.
>
>>Something that majored in simplicity and gave the customer source code
>>(probably in BASIC) so he could build on what he got.
>
>There are all sorts of non-technical issues with that.  For 
>instance, who would be legal liable.

I was talking about for tinkerers -- not a product by major mfgrs;
something by, say Wesley and Knighton or such, for the rest of
us dummies.


Tom Cloud <cloud at peaches.ph.utexas.edu>




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