Great post and great analogies of OSes over at the fishbowl…
I think the best one is for Linux, although I’ve never owned a Mac
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Great post and great analogies of OSes over at the fishbowl…
I think the best one is for Linux, although I’ve never owned a Mac
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My favourite os analogies are still in "In the beginning was the command line…" by Neal Stephenson. http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine#head-5e1cc52ee9dc9b01ec3e086a2ff90add329a43a7
"Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable. "