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Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 433

Posted by samzenpus from the blue-car-of-death dept.
Yooden_Vranx writes "speedtv.com reports that beginning in 2008, Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1. Apparently, moving to a single supplier is part of the FIA's (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) attempts to cut costs. The article does not clarify whether this cost reduction is enabled by cutting back on tech support, what percentage of the engine's power will be required to run all the 'features' embedded in the device, or whether 'crash' will now refer primarily to software behavior rather than driving incidents."

Comment Not much use (Score 1, Insightful) 284

by jqcaducifer (#7719905) Attached to: Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators
The only benefits I can see here is more memory for games. On the other hand, it kills all math functionality, which kinda defeats the purpose of the calculator. A person who got this calculator to play games missed the point. Besides the simple idea of loading a new non-TI OS onto the calc, there doesn't seem to be a reason for this OS. On the other hand, once they improve this to include math and such, that would be nice.

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