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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: 12 Jun 2025 18:26:41 GMT
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:33:35 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> If you like, consider "gearshift" as "a lever that selects a drive mode"
> such that it covers the 2% manual transmission folks, and the "PRND2L"
> handle for an automatic.  Although some, newer automatics, do have the
> "PRND2L" as "buttons on the dash" -- so in those cases there isn't a
> gearshift lever at all...

My '60 Plymouth had buttons on the dash...

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-
the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-chrysler-pushbutton-automatic-a-
government-conspiracy/

Other manufacturers had pushbuttons too. iirc Packard had them in the 
middle of the steering wheel.  Corvair had a lever on the dash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvair_Powerglide

None of those were shift by wire, unless you count the cable going to the 
transmission as a 'wire'.

I think the move to floor shift ATs was to standardize the location. 
Chrysler Corp MTs in that era were 3 on the tree.