On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Dale Strickler wrote: > At 08:14 PM 2003_07_25, you wrote: > ><SNIP...> > >Oh, changes in the wheatbelt have been as dramatic. Back then, a > >harvester was a machine you could tow behind your tractor. Now it's > >self-powered, a machine you need to climb a ladder to get up to its > >air-conditioned cockpit. > > > The air-conditioning now is for the on-board farming computers. (As an > example: http://www.pfs.ab.ca/Products.htm or links to more examples: > http://www.prairielinks.com/aglinks/Farm_Equipment/Precision_Farming/.) I > don't think the tractors run VMS yet but I bet there is one out there > running Linux! Maybe, someday soon near you, your local farmer's tractor > will have a VMS Penguin farm on board! (Or more likely, remotely operated > by one! "Look Ma no driver!")
Not until farmers learn to make gates. I defy anyone to design a computerised robot that can cope with farm gates I see. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
