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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

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412 points conanxin | 2 comments | 27 Jul 24 06:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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mxwsn ◴[27 Jul 24 07:02 UTC] No.41084928[source]▶
This essay by Neal Stephenson was first published in 1999. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_...

The analogy of OS as cars (Windows is a station wagon, Linux is a tank) is brought up in the recent Acquired episode on Microsoft, where Vista was a Dodge Viper but Windows 7 was a Toyota Camry, which is what users actually wanted.

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hiAndrewQuinn ◴[27 Jul 24 07:10 UTC] No.41084952[source]▶
Windows XP would probably be an old 1970s Volvo that is still, somehow, running in all kinds of places otherwise forgotten by the waking world.
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1. johnohara ◴[27 Jul 24 15:15 UTC] No.41087108[source]▶
Mostly in Oregon, Northern CA, and parts of Washington. But parts are increasingly hard to find.
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2. CRConrad ◴[01 Aug 24 14:16 UTC] No.41129326[source]▶
Mostly in all of Sweden, all of Finland, probably still quite a lot in Denmark, but perhaps not so many in Norway any more (since they are rapidly electrifying[1] the entire national car fleet).

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[1]: Ironically, the heavy state subsidies for buying an electric car are, like anything else in Norway, financed by... Oil money.