Volvo's "Safety Car" Runs Windows 98

An anonymous submitter writes "MSNBC is carrying a report on Volvo's new "Safety Car." It sounds pretty cool, too, until you get to the part that mentions it runs Windows 98 as its operating system. Yikes! Be sure to reboot your car frequently to avoid crashes."

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Re:how can anyone complain about this.....

[bergeron76]

Technically, in this scenario win98 would be "rebooted" every time the car was turned on. By my calculations this would mean that Win98 would outperform linux by a factor of 3 (assuming that the car is used 3 times in a day). The more frequently you reboot a Win98 box the better performance you get from it because the memory is freed from improper malloc(s), the cache is cleared, and the buffers are as pure as the morning dew.