Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!uxc!tank!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: software analogy Message-ID: <13744@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 18:16:00 GMT References: <891@taux01.UUCP> <650004@hpclscu.HP.COM> <9443@cup.portal.com> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 15 In article <9443@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com writes: >... Whenever I tell a layperson (but computer user) that I have been >working on a way to let new computers run old software, they ask why it >hasn't always been that way.... Think of software for computers as >gasoline for automobiles and you understand why the layperson is mad >that IBM PCs can't run Apple software! What would you think if Arco >gasoline only worked in economy cars! You just need to tell them that software is not like gasoline. (Electric power is like gasoline :-) .) Software is like . . . Spark plugs! -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris