Gevonden in een leuk citatenboekje uit 1995 over Windows en Lotus :

If Operating Systems were Airlines…

DOS AIR – All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab
hold of the plane, push it until it gets in the air, hop on,
jump off when it hits the ground again. Then they grab the
plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, etcetera.
WINDOWS ’95 AIRLINES – The terminal is very neat
and clean, the attendants are all very attractive and the pilots
very capable. The fleet is immense. After your plane arrives
6 months late, you begin to wonder why it has not arrived
yet. Your yet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the
clouds, and at 20,000 feet it crashes without warning.

MAC AIRWAYS – The cashiers, flight attendants, and
pilots all look the same, feel the same and act the same.
When asked questions about the flight they reply that you
don’t want to know, don’t need to know, and would you
please return to your seat and watch the movie.

OS/2 SKYWAYS – The terminal is almost empty, with only
a few prospective passengers milling about. Airline personnel
walk around, apologising profusely to customers in hushed
voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets
outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger
how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how
much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they
will have to wait a little longer for technicians to finish
flight systems.

FLY WINDOWS NT – All the passengers carry their seats
out onto the tarmac, placing the chairs in the outline of a
plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and make jet
swooshing sounds as if they are flying.

UNIX EXPRESS – Each passenger brings a piece of the
airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the
tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they
want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they
build several different aircraft, but give them all the same
name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All
passengers believe they got there.”

We zijn reeds 10 jaar verder. Inmiddels heeft Apple een tiental nieuwe features van Leopard voorgesteld. Vista is on the way (but far far away). Mijn grote vraag : zullen deze twee rivalen mijn grote wens waarmaken en Tagging toevoegen aan Spotlight en Doggy Search ?
As t’a la bliefsta ?

Hieronder een screenshot van Xerox Star, moeder van het grafische besturingssyteem, zoals we die nu kennen in Windows, Mac en Linux :

In volgende publicatie 2 gigantische quotes van Bill Gates !