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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5315 comp.os.linux.misc:35051 comp.os.os2.advocacy:78619 alt.folklore.computers:73045 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.mathworks.com!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uknet!yama.mcc.ac.uk!usenet From: paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk (Paul Floyd) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 10 Feb 1995 15:24:02 GMT Organization: Dog Rough Coders Lines: 64 Message-ID: <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <3g862c$3mu@supreme.pcug.org.au> <D3Mvy7.1Kq@csc.liv.ac.uk> <3heh7u$scl@umbc8.umbc.edu> Reply-To: paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk (Paul Floyd) NNTP-Posting-Host: meed47.ee.man.ac.uk X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.09 In <3heh7u$scl@umbc8.umbc.edu>, rdavis4@umbc.edu (R. D. Davis) writes: >>> In <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu>, karl@plato.simons-rock.edu >>> (Karl A. Krueger) writes: >>> >In article <3fusq3$1cu7@whale.st.usm.edu>, >>> >John William Chambless <chambles@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote: >>> >>>This is why I call MS-DOS the "Budweiser of operating systems"! :-) >>> >>Nah. Maybe the Thunderbird of operating systems -- >>> >>it's cheap, available everywhere, and it makes me puke. >>> >Thunderbird? Try Lada! >Better yet, why not call it the Japanese car of operating systems; >like MS-DOS, it's over priced, not only is it easily breakable, but >it's mostly broken when new, it succeeded only because of slick >marketing tactics and gullible consumers, has no real substance, is >flimsy, each version doesn't last long, etc. Sounds like a Japanese >car to me... the only difference is it doesn't rust. >Ford Thunderbirds, on the other hand, were once very nice, very >powerful, automobiles; that is, before the Japanese car companies and >the US government conspired to force the US automakers to stop making >so many nice cars that were comfortable to ride in and had powerful >engines. Now, we're stuck with a bunch of little cars that are way >overpowered and a few larger cars that are grossly underpowered. What >we need are more PDP-11 computers being manufactured and cars, like >Gran Torino and LTD station wagons, that are big enough to haul them >around in with 460 CID V8 engines (or at least "351 Cleveland" (351 >CID, V8, approx. 300HP) engines for the slightly smaller Gran >Torinos). >Let's bring back real computers and real cars! What a jerk! What use is a 300hp car in a country with a 55 (60 sometimes speed limit)? Is it to cover a penis inferiority complex? And do you simply not give a shit about the environment, as long as you're sitting in a fat slug 4-litre engined car? The days of engines like that are over, legislation [California especially] is forcing car manufacturers to produce ~1 litre lean burn engines. I'm sure David Leblanc can put you straight on these matters. As for the product quality, I'm less familiar with the auto industry than I am with electronics, but I think the fact that the USA has no TV manufacturers (only foreign owned plants) is a classic example of Japanese product quality. If you knew much about the history of PQ, you'd realize that it grew up in Japan (ironically, the idea was sold to the Japanese by an American, who went there after American companies ignored him. Sorry, don't remember his name). I'll leave your bright idea about expensive dinosaur iron to the others in this group. >R. D. Davis -- Paul Floyd, Information Storage Research Group, Division of Electrical Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Manchester Edification - the process of changing your name to be "Edward" paul@meed47.ee.man.ac.uk http://meed47.ee.man.ac.uk/paul.html mbhpfpj@meehpc.ee.man.ac.uk mbhpfpj@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk