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I bet it cost twice the price of XTR and shifted worse, even in 1999.
It does prefigure ideas whose time has (or nearly has) come
1: Looks a bit like Shadow RDs
2: Reduced chain slap, just like SRAM Type 2
3: Sequential shifting from one controller - has been done as a Di2 hack, wouldn't be surprised to see Shimano implementing it formally when XTR goes Di2 2×11
but many inventors of cycling components have been before their time and disappeared without trace