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- From: BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu (Brad Baxter)
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- Subject: Operating Systems
- Message-ID: <WORDS-L%92122212314391@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:18:28 GMT
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- This is posted on our (physical) bulletin board:
-
- 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 sotre, 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,
- "got 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.
-
- * Alt-Brad *
-