Re: [xml-dev] dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

>Just FYI, a tiny little company called General Electric created that
>standard at the behest of an employee named Thomas Edison. GE choose AC and
>pushed that. After the AC / DC argument was won, it became a standard.

Edison used DC, getting AC adopted for executions to prove how
dangerous it was.  It was Westinghouse that used AC.

-- Richard