[281] in DCNS Development
I was amused...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Fri Dec 4 10:03:50 1992
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 92 10:02:38 EST
From: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
To: developers@MIT.EDU
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>Date: Thu, 03 Dec 92 16:27:30 EST
>From: Derrick Kong <starflt@Athena.MIT.EDU>
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>WHAT DRIVING TO THE STORE WOULD BE LIKE IF OPERATING SYSTEMS RAN YOUR CAR
>
> >> MS-DOS: You get in the car and try to remember where you put your keys.
>
> >> Windows: You get in the car and drive to the store very slowly, because
> attached to the back of the car is a freight train.
>
> >> Macintosh System 7: You get in the car to go to the store, and the car
> drives you to church.
>
> >> UNIX: You get in the car and type GREP STORE. After reaching speeds of
> 200 miles per hour en route, you arrive at the barber shop.
>
> >> Windows NT: You get in the car and write a letter that says, "go to the
> store." Then you get out of the car and mail the letter to your
> dashboard.
>
> >> Taligent/Pink: You walk to the store with Ricardo Montalban, who tells
> you how wonderful it will be when he can fly you to the store in his
> Learjet.
>
> >> OS/2: After fueling up with 6000 gallons of gas, you get in the car and
> drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in
> procession. Halfway there, the car blows up, killing everybody in town.
>
> >> S/36 SSP [mainframe, obv.]: You get in the car and drive to the store.
> Halfway there you run out of gas. While walking the rest of the way,
> you are run over by kids on mopeds.
>
> >> OS/400: An attendant locks you into the car and then drives you to the
> store, where you get to watch everybody else buy filet mignons.
>
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