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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: software analogy
Keywords: software hardware cars gasoline roadmaps sparc advertising
Message-ID: <20@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 04:46:48 GMT
References: <891@taux01.UUCP> <650004@hpclscu.HP.COM> <9443@cup.portal.com> <13744@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <13744@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
|In article <9443@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com writes:
|>....  Think of software for computers as
|>gasoline for automobiles and you understand why the layperson is mad
|>that IBM PCs can't run Apple software!  What would you think if Arco
|>gasoline only worked in economy cars!
|
|You just need to tell them that software is not like gasoline.  (Electric
|power is like gasoline :-) .)  Software is like . . .
|
|	Spark plugs!

Software is like Sun-4 advertising?  Nahhhh!	;-)

My car gives me a SIGBADGAS if I try to load Chevron, usually during init.
Runs fine on Shell.  Chevron must have the wrong molecule chain order.

Software is like the map.  If you have a M6, you want a map of the Autobahn,
if you have a Jeep, you want a map of the Baja.

Excuse me, I have to go Rain-X the console.

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