Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 21 Aug 2025 19:04:06 GMT Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <107gib4$3j56j$7@dont-email.me> <107hhhe$3pitk$1@dont-email.me> <4N6cnRbbIKoU0AD1nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> <107lq4b$p5vg$7@dont-email.me> <107n9cb$12hcd$28@dont-email.me> <107ng5n$15rfj$1@dont-email.me> <107oprl$1f6pb$4@dont-email.me> <107pm1g$1l5v2$1@dont-email.me> <107rbde$20k71$20@dont-email.me> <107v689$3219t$1@dont-email.me> <1080mev$3fk4r$1@dont-email.me> <1081cin$3kivt$1@dont-email.me> <2W2pQ.10557$uCGc.6020@fx14.iad> <108428t$7mtq$4@dont-email.me> <25adneHOscd1ODv1nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net FXVbRdCYrMsu4cniAtdjVQKES/n68lYbomLttIFukWNeTUgdIJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:afl+W46WeccBkkSnxh3XAlfIvCY= sha256:Z2ynvavm/SrJb5XTKgOWBtoUcGDS5VKqByedEmrSbJY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71861 alt.comp.os.windows-11:22678 On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:51:38 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Owned a later-model Falcon for awhile ... 200 engine. > Very good car, and there was enough space under the bonnet to > basically climb in to do maint. I've always preferred straight sixes. I've covered the bases, the 216 in a '51 Chevy, and a 240 ci in '80 that was the end of the line. I had the 170 in the Falcon, and my '86 F-150 has a 300 ci. Then there was the 225 slant 6 in a '60 Plymouth and a 62 Dodge pickup. They were all workhorses and easy to work on. > Mustang people don't want to ADMIT they were just Falcons with a > sexier bod bolted on I finally got around to a Mustang in '73, which was the last year before the Mustang II POS. Poor weight distribution and a big engine made it great for burnouts, not so great for winter driving. No fun to work on either. > 1960s to mid 70s ... standard "station wagons" were in almost every > driveway. Not as much room as today's SUVs, but Good Enough - and > lower-profile. Some had very big engines too. Neighbor had one with a > 440 + 4-barrel. It'd MOVE (and the fuel gauge moved almost as > quickly). A guy I knew that did a lot of hiking had a wagon, '62 Olds I think. It was his camper. My uncle had a radio/tv business when the repairmen still made house calls. He had a woody, then a newer wagon but I don't know the year. It was handy for carry tools, components, and for hauling a TV back to the shop if it couldn't be fixed in the field. > A place I worked had a heavy flatbed truck with a straight-8 ... dual > water pumps as I recall ... and ran on six volts. NON-sync > transmission - > you had to shift it JUST RIGHT or the lever would snap back hard > enough to crack a bone. I had a '49 Chrysler New Yorker with a straight eight. That was a beast. Great road car but my wife's vocabulary got a little rough when she had to parallel park -- on power steering. Most of the big trucks are straight sizes. Do it right and a straight six has perfect balance, unlike a V-6. I only had one V-6. It was okay but due to a design weakness the rear main seal tended to rotate. When everything was lined up right, or wrong I guess, it would throw oil on the exhaust manifold. I got tired of people telling me my car was on fire. Then it would rotate a little more and all was good. > Seems like every trick and variation has been tried over the past > century. Now if somebody has a Citroen 2cv with a big Jap V-twin > cycle engine spliced in I might be interested in buying My V-strom is a V twin. No complaints. The engine is a slightly more civilized version of the SV650 crotch rocket. The Sportster is a V-twin of course. No comparison between OHV FI and a push rod engine with a carb. Horses, courses.