Ubuntu loosing its popularity

[doug]

On 12/01/2011 02:43 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Cybe R. Wizard 
> <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net <mailto:cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:02:21 -0800
>     Ernest Doub <hideserted at gmail.com <mailto:hideserted at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>     > The reason for going to "push button drive" in automobiles has to do
>     > with the increasing cost reductions made possible by using
>     electronic
>     > controls instead of mechanical linkages.
>     > Since the underlying systems are all monitored and controlled
>     through
>     > integrated circuits it now just makes sense to adopt that control
>     > scheme for automatic transmissions.
>     > Manual transmissions still require a mechanical linkage for gear
>     > changing. Any of the so called auto/manual trans setups is just an
>     > automatic transmission with an override on the automatic part.
>     > Now if they would just start using a linux based system for the
>     super
>     > wiz bang toys instead of the microsoft system...
>
/snip/

My father had a 1955 DeSoto that had push-button transmission controls
before anyone ever even _thought_ of microprocessors or integrated circuits!
The radio used tubes. The car didn't even have an alternator.  I 
borrowed it
for a trip to Delaware in about 1958, and the generator crapped out--it 
needed
new brushes.

--doug


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