Which Airline

[Bob Phillips]

http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/computing/os-airlines.html

Bit old, needs updating with Win98, Win2000, ME, XP and Vista.

The Unix is especially funny, but I think the Linux airline is from a period of initial enthusiasm, I don't think it has reached anything like that Nirvana.

[XLGibbs]

That is pretty good.

I suppose Win ME would be something like:

You arrive at the airport after being sent free tickets without asking for them, but decide to go anyway.Once you arrive at the terminal,and although receiving the tickets yesterday, the airline doesn't exist anymore and no one at the other airline terminals remember hearing of it.

[Bob Phillips]

That is pretty good.

I suppose Win ME would be something like:

You arrive at the airport after being sent free tickets without asking for them, but decide to go anyway.Once you arrive at the terminal,and although receiving the tickets yesterday, the airline doesn't exist anymore and no one at the other airline terminals remember hearing of it.

I have never used ME but I understand it was pretty awful. Your suggestion, amusing as it is, is in light of the fact that ME is dead. It would be interesting to hear an analogy assuming ME is a valid, working (non sequitur?) OS.

ANyone got ideas for XP and (especially) Vista?

[XLGibbs]

Me was awful. Really awful.

Vista?

The highly touted airline rumored to be the greatest airline ever, and the last airline anyone should want to, or have to use. However, passengers once boarded, are notified that they are unable to take-off because, the engineers forgot to build a way for the cockpit to communicate with the control tower. The control tower knows there is a plane that wants to take off, but is unsure how to find it. The plane desperately tries to take off on its, but the wheels don't have tires yet. Passengers are told that they arrived safely, and with no inconvenience, and are reminded that there are no other airlines.

[Bob Phillips]

Me was awful. Really awful.

Vista?

The highly touted airline rumored to be the greatest airline ever, and the last airline anyone should want to, or have to use. However, passengers once boarded, are notified that they are unable to take-off because, the engineers forgot to build a way for the cockpit to communicate with the control tower. The control tower knows there is a plane that wants to take off, but is unsure how to find it. The plane desperately tries to take off on its, but the wheels don't have tires yet. Passengers are told that they arrived safely, and with no inconvenience, and are reminded that there are no other airlines.


... and the glass windows that were promised are more like foggy plastic, and it doesn't work with the navigation software, and you can't have any old (reliable, trust-worthy navigation software) on the plane as backup as it only allows one version.