[ricardo]

...if what I heard about Microsoft providing standard onboard software to all cars next year.

Imagine this:



While you are driving at 300Km/h... Where is the rest button??????

Ricardo

[jdp]

*lol* ... but it would be safe! the car won't ever boot...

[aitraaz]

OMG, blue screen of death, Montecarlo, Place d’Armes curve, perish the thought!!

[deadalvs]

well, FA/18 hornets run with 386 processors......... !

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deadalvs

[ricardo]

but no microsoft software, I guess....

[ricardo]

and in pit stops, something like: It was not possible to locate drivers for your new tyres, please contact the manufacturer....

[iandavis]

I don't know if it's true or an urban myth, but I remember hearing that the US military experimented with a windows-run Submarine. Apparently they eventually needed a couple tugboats to get home after the entire ship 'crashed'

I laughed... and laughed... then my machine crashed...
then I cursed, and cursed...

mmmm... windows...

[michaelplogue]

I remember hearing a while back that the space shuttles were still using 8088's running Windows 3.11.........

Could just be one of those urban legends though......

[b-kandor]

Here's a bit about the apollo computer - 74 kb hardwired ROM and 4kb or RAM. Fully multi-tasking. An amazing feat.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/computer.htm

[Tim Ellis]

It was always going to get dangerous when I designed this for the Blender F1 comp last year:-



Thank god they don't have to give turn signals too, although this would help most of the drivers to stop crashing into each other.


Tim.

[ricardo]

God, a F1 pod racer, great! Where is skywalker?

Ricardo