Captain Pedantic asks, "isn't 'electronic ignition' an ignition system that uses an electronic module instead of physical points?" I've not heard a definition of "electronic ignition" that cares about how the electricity gets to the spark plug. Instead, we are concerned with how we trigger the magnetic field to collapse and makes spark: is it the mechanical opening of a switch, or is it transistors?

And using that definition, we've had electronic ignition commonly put in cars since the 70s. Distributor, or lack thereof, has nothing to do with that definition.