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Car Digital Assistant

Posted by michael on from the road-hazard dept.

suman28 writes "The Japanese company Clarion plans to sell a car with built-in PC that runs Windows which car browse the web, play tunes and store an address manager. The stats on the computer are nice - a 166 MHz RISC processor with 64MB RAM and 8MB video. That seems like a lot for a car."

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  1. What version? by prichardson · · Score: -1, Troll

    What version of windows could possibly run on a 166mhz RISC processor? Surely the Japanese would want to use a better, more stable OS, too? *cough* OpenBSD, OS X, anything not windows *cough*

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  2. Re:Uhh, RISC? by bahamat · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually Windows only runs on RISC processors. All moder Intel and AMD chips are internally RISC, they translate the external instructions for the core. The only reason they aren't fully RISC for real is because Microsoft wouldn't allow it. Kind of sucks when you think how much more power we'd all have if processor architecture weren't lobotomized for Microsoft's benifit by wasting clock cycles on that translation.