Class distinction
Some ideas lie fallow for a long time before they see the public light of day, especially if I am involved. This one had been at the back of my mind for some 10 years; the simple thought that complex output stages could be analysed into combinations of a few elementary classes, much as atoms are made of elementary particles.
The goal was not mere classification, but setting up a formal system whereby possible new combinations of operating principles would become evident, and some of these are dealt with – rather briefly, I’m afraid, but space was running out – at the end of the article.
The article was apparently well received at the time, and I received some nice letters, but whether it will have any real impact on the naming ...
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