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MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGoMeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGoPosted Nov 24, 2010 21:13 UTC (Wed) by n8willis (editor, #43041)In reply to: MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo by iabervon Parent article: MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo
There is actually a pretty popular open source ECU called MegaSquirt, and yeah, it doesn't need a full multi-user OS. It's mostly popular with racing types. In any case, I'm not really sure I follow what you're upset about, though. You talk about "running MeeGo" on a hardware peripheral device without a processor; I don't understand who you think is saying that.
Besides, if the central IVI box that is connected by CAN bus or whatever to the ECU, the sensors, the security system, etc. *is* running MeeGo, when those other systems are essentially microcontrollers, how is "the computer" *not* "running MeeGo"? Do you say that your desktop box "isn't running Linux" because there's someone else's code running in the BIOS, the hard disk firmware, DVD drive, and Ethernet ROM?
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MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo Posted Nov 24, 2010 22:01 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
I think the discussion has wandered away from my original point, which is that putting computers in front of people who can't spare much attention for interacting with the computer is a significant new thing. Someone responded by mentioning the ECU that's been in front of drivers for ages, and I was arguing that that's not actually relevant, since it's not that sort of computer.
MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo Posted Nov 24, 2010 23:07 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] Lost drivers are more at risk of an accident, and changing CDs/cassettes/radio stations is in the top 10 for distractions. So a good car computer with nav software that gives accurate directions (with plenty of time to change lanes) and a good predictive audio system could make things safer. (Turning the dashboard into a conventional PC desktop would probably make things worse.)
MeeGo conference: Intel's and Nokia's visions of MeeGo Posted Nov 29, 2010 15:28 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Optical mice do have processors (they work by doing motion detection on an incoming video stream), just dedicated ones.
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