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- Subject: Funny Windows comparison.
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 03:39:05 GMT
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- Top 20 Ways Microsoft Would Change The Auto Industry
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- 20. The radio would be computerized, but you'd need to install 64 Meg
- of
- RAM, a new sound
- card, a game card, a new video driver, a CD drive, and type
- C:\radio\talk\rush*.* to get it to play.
-
- 19. The entire engine wouldn't be in the bay at once, and the car
- would
- have to keep stopping and starting to load in the relevant parts.
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- 18. The speedometer would read 70 even though you are only doing 50.
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- 17. You would have to have a full service every 500 miles.
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- 16. Your car would refuse to start with a message "Abort, Retry,
- Fail?"
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- 15. For some reason the engine controller would need a 1G hard disc
- and
- would take 5 minutes to boot up.
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- 14. The steering wheel would be replaced with a mouse and you'd need
- to
- memorize the keyboard short-cut for "Brake".
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- 13. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after
- that
- year- instead of before it.
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- 12. They wouldn't build their own engines but form a cartel with their
-
- engine supplier. The latest
- engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4
- turbos,
- but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford
- parts
- on it. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would
- be
- slower on most existing roads.
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- 11. The air bag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
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- 10. New seats would require everyone to have the same butt size.
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- 9. We would all have to switch to Microsoft Gas.
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- 8. The U.S. government would be forced to rebuild all of the roads for
-
- Microsoft cars; they will
- drive on the old roads, but they run very slowly.
-
- 7. The oil, alternator, gas and engine warning lights would be
- replaced
- by a single 'General Car
- Fault' warning light.
-
- 6. Sun MotorSystems would make a car that was solar-powered, twice as
-
- reliable and five times as fast, but would run on only 5% of the
- roads.
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- 5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car.
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- 4. You could have only one person in the car at a time, unless you
- bought
- a Car95 or CarNT -- but then you would have to buy ten more seats and
- a
- new engine.
-
- 3. Occasionally, your car would die for NO apparent reason and you
- would
- have to restart it.
- Strangely, you would just accept this as normal.
-
- 3a. Occaionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and
-
- fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some
- strange
- reason, you'd just accept this, too.
-
- 2. Every time the lines of the road were repainted, you would have to
- buy
- a new car.
-
- 1. People would get excited about the new features of the latest
- Microsoft cars, forgetting that these same features had been available
-
- from other car makers for years.
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