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To: Calvin Scott who wrote (178)	4/14/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: Vanni Resta	Respond to of 2733

Ha! Calvin, way to go! Stop by more often!

To: Calvin Scott who wrote (178)	4/14/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Vanni Resta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2733

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated that if GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal. Recently General Motors responded by asking: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" GM also made the following points. If Gate's analogy were true... 1. Every time the lines were repainted on the road you would have to buy a new car. 2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too. 4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought Car 95 or CarNT. But, then you would have to buy more seats. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads. 6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. 7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single general car fault warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. 9. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before going off.