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Airplanes running on O/S

>Aiplanes That Run On Operating Systems, Not Jet Fuel
>
>  Here's some descriptions of airplanes run by various operating
>  systems:
>
>  DOS:  Everybody pushes it till it glides, then jumps on and lets it
>  coast till it skids, then jumps off, pushes, jumps back on, etc.
>
>
>  DOS with QEMM:  Same as DOS, but with more leg room for pushing.
>
>
>  Macintosh:  All the flight attendants, captains and baggage handlers
>  look the same, act the same and talk the same.  Every time you ask a
>  question, you are told you don't need to know, don't want to know and
>  everything will be done for you without your knowing, so just shut up.
>
>
>  OS/2:  To get on board, you have to have your ticket stamped 10
>  different times by standing in 10 different lines.  Then you fill out
>  a form asking how you want your seating arranged--with the look and
>  feel of an ocean liner, a passenger train or a bus.  If you get on
>  board and off the ground, you will have a wonderful trip, except when
>  the rudder and flaps freeze, in which case you have time to say your
>  prayers before you crash.
>
>
>  Windows:  Colorful airport terminal, friendly flight attendants, easy
>  access to a plane, uneventful takeoff.  Then:  BOOM! You blow up
>  without any warning whatsoever.
>
>
>  NT: The terminal and flight attendants all look like those the
>  Windows plane uses, but the process of checking in and going through
>  security is a nightmare. Once aboard, those passengers with first
>  class tickets can go anywhere they want and arrive in half the time,
>  while the vast majority of passengers with coach tickets can't even
>  get aboard.
>
>
>  Unix:  Everyone brings one piece of the plane.  Then they go on the
>  runway and piece it together, all the while arguing about what kind
>  of plane they're building.
>
>
>  CAIRO: The airplane is distributed among 47 different hangars in 13
>  airports scattered over 8 states, 4 Canadian provinces, and a remote
>  mountain hideaway in Nicaragua. But you don't need to know where the
>  airplane is or who it belongs to in order to fly it. Actually, you
>  don't fly the airplane itself; you fly a simulation that behaves just
>  like the real thing except that you don't go anywhere. But that's
>  okay, because when the world is at your fingertips you never need to
>  leave home.
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