Software Obesity (was Re: Jargon file v2.1.5)

Tue Dec 4 13:06:05 AEST 1990

In article <1990Dec2.202402.21977 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>If cars were designed the same way as software is today,
>they'd all have buggy-whip holders (from "Car V1.0") and starter cranks
>(from "Car V2.1") and electric ignitions (from "Car V3.0") and so on.

Ahem.  My state-of-the-art 1969 VW Bug is slotted for a starter crank.
(Dunno about Supers, and my Karman Ghia isn't crankable.)

Now where I'll *find* a crank for it is another story... :-)

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