- If your brain required an operating system like your computer does, what
- would it be like?
- Windows for brains:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- You can think about lots of things at once, but you 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:
- Simple thoughts for simple people. Thinking that looks good, feels good, and is
- ... different...
- Pick for brains:
- 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 to compelling need to wrap a teatowel around your head and sit,
- crosslegged, on the floor.
- Linux for Brains:
- 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.