IRIX Air 6.5
You have tried the rest, now try what was the best ten years ago. Unusually the planes are supersonic Concorde models, made in Switzerland or the aptly named Mountain View. Shockingly, the seats cost from ten thousand pounds (economy O2 'blocky polygon' class) to a million pounds (Infinite Reality class). Allegedly there were seats that cost even more than that but only the military and a few weather forecasters had a go on those. Almost all of the seats are Indigo coloured and very sophisticated - a class of their own with qualities you just do not get today.
As well as having to get someone to pay for your seat, there is a ridiculously vast level of insurance to pay out - they call it 'support'. This doubles the cost of the seat, but given that your flight is so important you pay for it anyway. Naturally this support is not really needed, but then it might be.
As you take your seat you accidentally sneeze. A whole team of smart suit techno boffins turn up even though your sneeze wasn't exactly the 'fatal bus error' your seat automatically reported. You get a free holographic tissue and they somehow manage to sell you added in flight entertainment for your seat. Installation is effortless, however, all of the movies are at least a decade old and with really cheesy CG. You settle down to a choice between Jurassic Park and Twister. Both movies feature seats remarkably like those of IRIX Air. Twister seems to be a big fuss about minor weather phenomena and doesn't compare to the disaster level of today's Katrina and the Tsunami news. So you find a winterm and load up a flight simulator.
Bizarrely the seat has many flight simulators and you can fly with others in the same blockily mip-mapped world. With 'vi' you edit the weight for your plane and run into a floating point math error somewhere in outer ionosphere - scary with the as provided stereo goggles. You kill it and then look for another toy or game. At the top of the toolchest is the 'OOBE'. You fire it up and wow - it is all in 3D and properly multimedia. There is none of the flatworld web of today. You can even write your own pages and make your own virtual worlds.
Then something weird happens. Initially what was an elite-yet-packed flight full of oil execs, movie stars, jet fighter pilots and the occasional meteorologist now seems to have thinned out a bit. Some have taken their seats with them to WinNT Air. Allegedly the bolts match up to those now found on Boeing 586's. You did not like those people anyway so if they just want to get there then that is fine, so be it.
Then the pilot announces that Linux Air seats are the future - even more people jump ship.
Then a nightmare happens. Your employer decides to hire the people on the Win NT flight. Allegedly they don't pay for support, steal their seats and hijack planes, so what is your employer doing? Luckily you still have other paying customers, but maybe IRIX Air is too expensive for the marketplace now that the industry has been deregulated, down-sized and outsourced.
So, you have a go on Linux Air. Nothing seems quite right, a bit foreign and not anywhere near as good as the Rolls Royce Irix Air luxury. Then you have a reality check - Linux Air gets there quicker and more conveniently than 'supersonic' IRIX. Also, the Linux Air people are perfectly happy to share seats, so you don't even have to do the four bolt thing yourself. You just pay hosting fees and enjoy the ride, wondering why the glory days of IRIX Air had to go. Why did not the world want 3D - was it too difficult for them? Did they only have modest dreams of adventure?
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IRIX Air 6.5
You have tried the rest, now try what was the best ten years ago. Unusually the planes are supersonic Concorde models, made in Switzerland or the aptly named Mountain View. Shockingly, the seats cost from ten thousand pounds (economy O2 'blocky polygon' class) to a million pounds (Infinite Reality class). Allegedly there were seats that cost even more than that but only the military and a few weather forecasters had a go on those. Almost all of the seats are Indigo coloured and very sophisticated - a class of their own with qualities you just do not get today.
As well as having to get someone to pay for your seat, there is a ridiculously vast level of insurance to pay out - they call it 'support'. This doubles the cost of the seat, but given that your flight is so important you pay for it anyway. Naturally this support is not really needed, but then it might be.
As you take your seat you accidentally sneeze. A whole team of smart suit techno boffins turn up even though your sneeze wasn't exactly the 'fatal bus error' your seat automatically reported. You get a free holographic tissue and they somehow manage to sell you added in flight entertainment for your seat. Installation is effortless, however, all of the movies are at least a decade old and with really cheesy CG. You settle down to a choice between Jurassic Park and Twister. Both movies feature seats remarkably like those of IRIX Air. Twister seems to be a big fuss about minor weather phenomena and doesn't compare to the disaster level of today's Katrina and the Tsunami news. So you find a winterm and load up a flight simulator.
Bizarrely the seat has many flight simulators and you can fly with others in the same blockily mip-mapped world. With 'vi' you edit the weight for your plane and run into a floating point math error somewhere in outer ionosphere - scary with the as provided stereo goggles. You kill it and then look for another toy or game. At the top of the toolchest is the 'OOBE'. You fire it up and wow - it is all in 3D and properly multimedia. There is none of the flatworld web of today. You can even write your own pages and make your own virtual worlds.
Then something weird happens. Initially what was an elite-yet-packed flight full of oil execs, movie stars, jet fighter pilots and the occasional meteorologist now seems to have thinned out a bit. Some have taken their seats with them to WinNT Air. Allegedly the bolts match up to those now found on Boeing 586's. You did not like those people anyway so if they just want to get there then that is fine, so be it.
Then the pilot announces that Linux Air seats are the future - even more people jump ship.
Then a nightmare happens. Your employer decides to hire the people on the Win NT flight. Allegedly they don't pay for support, steal their seats and hijack planes, so what is your employer doing? Luckily you still have other paying customers, but maybe IRIX Air is too expensive for the marketplace now that the industry has been deregulated, down-sized and outsourced.
So, you have a go on Linux Air. Nothing seems quite right, a bit foreign and not anywhere near as good as the Rolls Royce Irix Air luxury. Then you have a reality check - Linux Air gets there quicker and more conveniently than 'supersonic' IRIX. Also, the Linux Air people are perfectly happy to share seats, so you don't even have to do the four bolt thing yourself. You just pay hosting fees and enjoy the ride, wondering why the glory days of IRIX Air had to go. Why did not the world want 3D - was it too difficult for them? Did they only have modest dreams of adventure?