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# Sony OS
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/sony-os/
- Published: 1999-01-29T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-01T21:21:28.000Z
- Description: We should really saved this for April 1st, but we can’t: Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

We should really saved this for April 1st, but we can’t:   
  
Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft’s Windows 95, 3.1, and DOS operating systems, Sony’s chairman Asai Tawara said, “We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been - until now - an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry.” The chairman went on to give examples of Sony’s new error messages:  
  
A file that big?  
  
It might be very useful.  
  
But now it is gone.  
  
\- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
  
The Web site you seek  
  
Cannot be located but  
  
Countless more exist  
  
\- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
  
Chaos reigns within.  
  
Reflect, repent, and reboot.  
  
Order shall return.  
  
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ABORTED effort:  
  
Close all that you have worked on.  
  
You ask way too much.  
  
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Yesterday it worked  
  
Today it is not working  
  
Windows is like that.  
  
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Three things are certain:  
  
Death, taxes, and lost data.  
  
Guess which has occurred.