Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

[Wendell Cochran <atrypa@eskimo.com>]

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:56:34 -0800
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>

[snip]
> . . . Volkswagen's shifting pattern through the 1970s, where
> shifting to reverse was the same as shifting into first gear except
> you pushed the gearshift down while doing it...heck, the vehicle best
> known for that pattern, the Vanagon, became a cultural icon in the US
> (the hippie bus).

And not only hippies: Edsger W. Dijkstra (`Go To Statement Considered
Harmful') used a VW bus for camping trips.  He named it `The Turing
Machine'.

Wendell Cochran
West Seattle