Political Blather

[Jon Pruente]

On 1/23/07, Phil Thayer <phil.thayer at vitalsite.com> wrote:
> Your probably right about the traditional computers that sit on your
> desk.  But what about the computer that runs your TV, microwave,
> dishwasher (not the kids), digital alarm clock, Stereo, CD/DVD
> player...Think about all the things in your house that are performing
> automated tasks that were not there 30-40 years ago.  Almost all of them
> have some type of embedded OS and most of them are using a derivative of
> Linux now.
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Where do you find this?  I know a _lot_ of embedded systems run NetBSD
too...  There are also a lot of embedded systems that run custom
real-time OSs.  Be sure to realize that Linux Is Not UniX.

Jon.