The story about the Government minister having to be rescued from his 
car by his bodyguards because of a computer failure was actually 
published in an Asian newspaper.  I read it last week.  (It may have 
been Thailand, but I have slept since then and don't remember for sure.) 
 I have a news clipping service that pulls stories from around the world 
and while not all newspapers are completely factual, the service has a 
good record and reports the stories as they are printed and gives proper 
attribution to the publisher.

However, the version that was shared with us on the list was a very 
highly modified copy of what I read last week.  I don't recall that 
Windoze CE was EVER mentioned in the article, I might have missed that 
reference, but I take great delight in the mis-steps of the evil horde 
in redmond, so I think I would have noticed something like that!

Bradley Miller wrote:

> At 10:30 AM 5/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Maybe someone can get Dodge/Chrystler to try a linux one before 
>> jumping on
>> the Windows CE bandwagon?
>
>
> I don't know about now, but the "good old days" of Chrysler engine 
> control computers would make a lot of people blush on what they were 
> doing with very little CPU/memory.   I'm on a "hack the ECU" list and 
> they were doing stuff WAY out there clear back in the early '80's.   
> Little things like interpolated fuel and spark curves, so the entire 
> map didn't need to be stored in memory -- like the Ford/Chevy stuff.   
> (Which explains why there isn't chips to just get a plug and play 
> horsepower upgrade . . . )
>
> I don't know what they are using for their new stuff, but I doubt they 
> would be quite as foolish to tie everything into one system.  (And I 
> take that "my car GPF'ed" story  with a grain of salt, because in the 
> event of a wreck / water landing / etc.... surely the morons put 
> something to "fail-safe" the car a little bit.)
>
> -- Bradley Miller
>
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