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From: rfeibusch@loop.com (Rick Feibusch)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:30:05 -0800 (PST)
COMPUTERS vs AUTO INDUSTRY

Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his
success. He decided to measure the accomplishments of Microsoft against
General Motors. The 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 V-8, and
it would have a top speed of 10,000 miles per hour. (160,000km/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.

In response to all this goading, GM responds: "Yes, but would you really
want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day?"

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If Microsoft Built Cars:

1.-Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a
new car.

2.-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.

3.-Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and
fail to restart and you'd have to reinstall the engine. For some
strange reason, you'd just accept this too.

4.-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.

5.-Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as
fast, twice as easy to drive-but it would only run on 5 percent
of the roads.

6.-The Macintosh car owners could get expensive Microsoft upgrades to
their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.

7.-The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced
by a single "general car default" warning light.

8.-New seats would force everyone to have the same size posterior.

9.-The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.

10.-If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what
happened.




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