story.
Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress
everyone with his success. He decided to
measure Microsoft accomplishments against
General Motors.
His comparison went like this:
If automotive technology had kept pace with
computer technology over the past few decades,
you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V8.
It would have a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour.
(160,000 km/hr.) Or you could have an economy
car that weighs 30 pounds (14 kilos) and gets a
thousand miles to the gallon of gas.
In either case, the sticker of the new car would
be less than $50.00.
In response to all this goading, GM responded:
"Yes, but would you really want to drive a car
that crashes 4 times a day?"
Then GM responded, if Microsoft built Cars:
Every time they repainted the lines on the road,
you'd have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway
for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For
some strange reason, you'd just accept this and
drive on.
Occasionally, your car would stop and fail to
restart, and you'd have to reinstall the engine.
For some strange reason, you'd just accept this
too.
You could only have one person in the car at a
time, unless you bought a Car95 or a CarNT.
But then you'd have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered
by the sun, was twice as fast, twice as easy
to drive -- but would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive
Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would
make their cars run much slower.
The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights
would be replaced by a single "general car fault"
warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the
same size butt.
The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?"
before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have
no idea what happened.
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