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Re: Beer Operating Systems
At 07:11 PM 9/10/96 -0700, Ted Timmons wrote:
>> If Operating Systems Were Beers...
>
>This is great! Does anyone have the 'If operating systems were airplanes'?
Ask and it shall be Emailed. (This is old, though. Needs a Win95 supplement.)
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If Operating Systems Ran Airlines (edited)
(From a talk by an IBM employee who shall remain nameless)
DOS Airlines
Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then
jumps on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground
again, then push again, jump on again and so on.
MAC Airlines
All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage
handlers and ticket agents look the same, act the same and
talk the same. Every time you ask questions about
details, you are told yo don't need to know, don't want to
know, and everything will be done for you without you
having to know, so just shut up.
WINDOWS Airlines
The airport terminal is nice and colourful, with
friendly stewards and stewardesses, easy access to the
plane, and an uneventful takeoff . . . then the plane blows
up without warning whatsoever.
UNIX Airlines
Everyone brings one piece of the plane with them when they
come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put
the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly
about what kind of plane they are building.
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