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Re: Linux BIOS

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ ed ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 18:13 \__
> 
>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:07:17 +0000
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yesterday I saw a further enhancement to this. The video was
>>> mentioned last week, but ever since it received exposure people have
>>> experimented with the idea, AFAICT. There's also a Debian Linux for
>>> embedded devices which boots in under 2 seconds. But who needs to
>>> boot anyway? Unless of course no service is run, in which case energy
>>> can be saved...
>> 
>> Things like in car mp3 are good like this.
> 
> The whole idea of in-car PCs (or Wi-fi in the case of Microsoft-Ford) is
> wasteful. Why integrate and tie an appliance to just one place when the
> same appliance is portable and affordable? PDAs come to mind.
> 

The COOL FACTOR isn't the same with PDA'a or IPOD's...

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Jerry McBride

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