Did you ever wonder what driving to the store would be like if operating systems ran your car?

2010-12-08 09:57:59; .: LOG :., english

MS-DOS: You get in the car and try to remember where you put your keys.

WINDOWS 98: You get in the car and drive to the store very slowly because attached to the back of your car is a freight train.

WINDOWS NT: You get in the heavy armored car, tune up the perfect communication center of your on-board computer and open your own mobile store on the back. As you reach the store you are driving to, your car refuses to come closer and after you try again the store blows up.

WINDOWS XP: You look at the car of the neighbour, you touch it gently, you whisper deeply, because the car is so beautiful, you try to find where is the wheel and the neighbour haughty shows it. Then you get back to you and go to the store on your bicycle.

WINDOWS Vista: After having a hard time to identify the passenger seats, you get in the car and half an hour later you realize that you are driving in circles around a swamp, decorated as a theme park.

WINDOWS 7: Your car is a circus VAN that can't stop moving. Eventually you manage to jump on board and it takes you to the store, where you watch other people buy apples.

OS/2: After fueling up with 6000 gallons of gas, you get in the car and drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in procession. Halfway there, the car blows up, killing everybody in town.

UNIX: You get in the car and type GREP STORE. After reaching speeds of 200 mph en route, you arrive at the barber shop.

FreeBSD: Your car calls the store manager, a delivery boy brings over raw food, and you wait several hours for him to prepare it. Then you realize that you don't have the slightest idea how to eat it.

OS/400: An attendant locks you into the car, then drives you to the store where you get to watch everybody else buy filet mignon.

Taligent/Pink: You walk to the store with Ricardo Montalban, who tells you how wonderful it will be when he can fly you to the store in his Learjet.

S/36 SSP: You get in the car and drive to the store. Halfway there, you run out of gas. While walking the rest of the way, you are run over by kids on mopeds.

MacIntosh System 7: You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to church.