" To speed assembly, between 1915 and 1925 it was only available in one color, black. Black paint was also cheaper and more durable . Henry Ford is reputed to have made the statement "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. " Model Ts in different colors were produced from 1908 to 1914, and then again from 1926 to 1927. By 1914, the assembly process for the Model T had been so streamlined it took only 93 minutes to assemble a car. That year Ford produced more cars than all other automakers combined. The Model T was a great commercial success, and for years in the late 1910s and early 1920s it was estimated that more than half of all motorcars in existence in the world were Model T Fords. Model Sailing Boat In fact, it was so successful that Ford did not purchase any advertising between 1917 and 1923; in total, more than 15 million Model Ts were manufactured, more than any other model of automobile for almost a century. This record has now been surpassed by the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Toyota Corolla and Ford F-Series nameplates have both sold more. "

". ? Just because an application responds to events does not mean it is "event driven". Event driven means it spends much of its time waiting for an event and then takes action if and when an event occurs. Contrast this with some programs that do not respond to events at all, but simply do their job and terminate. For example, an operating system command to display the current time. It displays the time and is done; it does not wait for events. For more information, see: Event-driven_programming Implementations The pattern was first described in 1979 by Trygve Reenskaug, then working on Smalltalk at Xerox research labs. Plastic Boat Model This original implementation inspired many other GUI frameworks such as: The NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP development environments encourage the use of MVC. Cocoa, based on these technologies, also uses MVC. "