- If operating systems ran your brain
- Windows for brains:
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- You think about one of any number of things at anyone time but
- only for a short amount of time because then your mind goes blank
- as you encounter a "general protection fault" and as a last
- resort you have to re-boot your brain.
- DOS for brains:
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- You only think of one thing at one time, and can't remember
- anything else you were meant to be thinking about. You think only
- in words and never any pictures.
- Unix for brains:
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- Wow - you can think of lots of things all at once until your
- brain runs out of sockets. You can only talk though with people
- who have brains made by the same vendor. Unfortunately you also
- never make any sense and have to read manuals to learn how to
- think. Predominantly a random thinker.
- CP/M for brains:
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- A very slow and old fashioned thinker. Any thing you remember
- has to be less than 3 letters long.
- MVS/CICS for brains:
- You have a very big and expensive brain. You can think about
- many things at the one time but never now what other parts of
- your brain are thinking unless you have set up SNA connections
- between sections of your brains. You also need an army of system
- programmers to define what thoughts you may and may not have.
- OS/2 for brains:
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- You can think about lots of things at once but need the
- equivalent of eighteen sets of encyclopaedias in memory to produce
- any rational thought. No-one supports your way of thinking and
- many laugh at you whenever you speak.
- Mac for brains:
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- Simple thoughts for simple people. Thinking that looks good,
- feels good but is expensive.
- Pick for brains:
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- I now narthing. Narthing Mr Fawlty.
- AmigaOS for brains:
- You can think of lots of things at once, even with a very small
- memory. The trouble is that, sometimes, one thought starts to
- think about the things another thought was using. This leads to a
- compelling need to wrap a teatowel around your head and sit,
- crosslegged, on the floor.
- Linux for Brains:
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- You can think of any number of things and not run out of sockets.
- Unfortunately, there is no support for your particular limbs,
- ears, mouth or .... thingy.... available yet so you are reluctant
- to change over at this stage.