Re: Technology and historical continuity...
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:02:28PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> Not all of England was so hung up on history:
>
> The Great Western Railway was created by an Act of Parliament on the 31st
> August 1835 to provide a double tracked line from Bristol to London, [...]
> the line was to be of the 7 feet 0inch (214 cm) broad gauge.
> -- http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_gwr.htm
And Toronto's subway uses a different guage, much to the annoyance of
the manufacturer when they order more trains, although the anafacturer
is probably happy to charge extra for the convinience. :)
Besides I though many different gauges had been tried around the world
on smaller lines, but everything that ended of being connected of course
had to match.
> In a victory of inertia and political incomprehension over technical
> superiority, the last of the broad gauge was removed in the 1890s. This
> story has been played out many times with many different players. We must
> never let free software be another casualty.
>
> There, I linked it to Debian ;-)
Besides don't Debian developers sometimes use trains and subways?
Len Sorensen
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