From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 04:40:42 -0400
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: standards
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>>It definitely makes sense to do something standard if the
>>standard exists.  You may argue till the hell freezes that
>>the electric plugs are of the wrong shape, but try to manufacture
>>"improved" ones which won't plug into old sockets.

funnily enough, i live in a country where this really has changed several
times.  it was apparently supposed to change again, owing to EU standardisation,
but i haven't heard much about it recently.  up to now, each new
plug design has had enough advantages (in safety, in capacity)
to offset the disadvantages of making a change.