On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > Reminds me. I sometimes search unsuccessfully for a joke page I saw > many years ago, probably hardcopy before there was much WWW. > Analogies of operating systems such as: > > VMS (sic) is like a Russian locomotive: overbuilt, bulletproof, and > underpowered. > > UNIX is like the water transport system in a developing nation: quirky, > dangerous, and passengers madly crowd on to overload it. > > ... many others ... Does anyone have a source?
This site has some. http://www.circlemud.org/jelson/writings/footos.html as used by airlines http://www.tensionnot.com/jokes/operating_systems_and_airlines > > -- gil -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
