** Reply to message from Druppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:10:57 -0700
> First MY releases of the E65/E66 had the iDrive controlling the > engine, to the extent that when the nav software would crash > in a path finding function, the engine would turn off. yikes! This is the kind of stuff I'd heard about. I'd heard of one guy was also locked in his car but his trunk would automatically open. It sounded like a mess and though not all was blamed on the OS, it was also known as being partly to blame for many problems. Hence the public statements of moving to some other OS. There is a military project called Striker, or the Soldier or the Future, or something like that where they too were doing wth Windows on embedded devices and having tons of problems. They switched to Linux and because of lost time had to trim down features but they eventually starting getting stuff working stable enough to have something to enhance. I'd pick an OS built but thousands of distributed geeks who just want to make it better than pick and OS from a company who pays people to use their product and who's marketing department is the design department. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
