Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:05:16 GMT From: "Dexter J" <lamealameadingdongnospamlamelame.org> Subject: Re: Why is this newsgroup all technical troubleshooting?
Salutations: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:15:45 GMT, th <someguynospamwhere.se> wrote: > Dexter J wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:48:24 -0400, ma_twain <ma_twainnospamo.com> wrote: >> >> specification and open source the engine management CPU. Didn't they >> brain the Mars Rovers with UNIX? >> > No, the operating system is VxWorks and there has been bugs detected in > that OS when on Mars. I wouldn't like to have VxWorks in my car!!! I stand corrected - surely though it has got to be better than the current OBDII system and light years ahead of the ISAT(?) I'm stuck with? I mean Trionic is actually a serious F1 technology - unfortunately completely locked out to us plebs in terms of really understanding exactly what is happening and leaving us very limited ability to work with it. -- Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day Big Sugar - All Over Now http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/140.RAM all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads no news no phone in no sign up required - all the Time