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- From: lee@insync.net (Lee)
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- Subject: Re: Funny Windows comparison.
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 05:45:47 GMT
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- I saw this and thought you would get a kick out of it. Have a good
- day...
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- Lee
-
- >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.
-
- >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?"
-
- >15. For some reason the engine controller would need a 1G hard disc
- >and
- >would take 5 minutes to boot up.
-
- >14. The steering wheel would be replaced with a mouse and you'd need
- >to
- >memorize the keyboard short-cut for "Brake".
-
- >13. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after
- >that
- >year- instead of before it.
-
- >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.
-
- >11. The air bag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
-
- >10. New seats would require everyone to have the same butt size.
-
- >9. We would all have to switch to Microsoft Gas.
-
- >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.
-
- >5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car.
-
- >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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