Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:24:15 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cars compared to Windows Message-ID: <20001014162415.B416@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20001013141720.A52708@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:17:20PM %2B0100 References: <20001013141720.A52708@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Friday, 13 October 2000 at 14:17:20 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > Thought you guys might like this, if you haven't seen it before. > ------------------------------------------- > > At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates compared the computer > industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with > technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 > dollar cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." Hmm, it can't have been that recent. I think I saw this one some years ago. > In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release (by > Mr. Welch himself) stating: If General Motors had developed technology > like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following > characteristics: > > ... > > 7. The oil, water, temperature and alternator warning lights would be > replaced by a single "General Car Default" warning light. Ah, that's a UNIX one. From fortune: Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong." The reference, of course, was to ed(1). Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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