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128 points ArmageddonIt | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 13:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source

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nailer ◴[08 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] No.44500851[source]▶

>>44499873 (OP) #

From the article:

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The first cars were:

- Loud and unreliable

- Expensive and hard to repair

- Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations

- Unsuitable for the dirt roads of rural America

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Reminds me of Linux in the late 90s. Talking to Solaris, HPUX or NT4 advocates, many were sure Linux was not going to succeed because:

- It didn't support multiple processors

- There was nobody to pay for commercial support

- It didn't support the POSIX standard

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1. WillAdams ◴[08 Jul 25 15:28 UTC] No.44500926[source]▶

>>44500851 #

>- Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations

Actually, gasoline was readily available in its rôle as fuel for farm and other equipment, and as a bottled cleaning product sold at drug stores and the like.

>- Unsuitable for the dirt roads of rural America

but the process of improving roads for the new-fangled bicycle was well underway.

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