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To: XOsDaWAY2GO who wrote (21391)	10/17/1999 8:36:00 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The OS for your car. Catchy title but really only for MSFT. pathfinder.com Gentlemen, Please Reboot Your Engines From TIME Digital: Microsoft and Sun want their software in your car, but little-known Wind River has a head start You're driving along at 65 m.p.h. on the Santa Monica Freeway. Suddenly your dashboard starts flashing this message: FATAL ERROR 60438. YOU WILL HAVE TO REBOOT. Ummm — what now? Pull out the instruction manual? Call the help center on your cell phone? Where's the reboot button, anyway? Of course, this is just a bad fantasy, but as software makers vie for space on (and behind) your dashboard, "operating system" is taking on a whole new meaning. This past August, General Motors announced its "Web vehicle," featuring voice-activated access to the Internet right from the driver's seat. To bring the Web vehicle to market next year, GM has turned to Sun Microsystems, maker of the Java programming language and operating environment. Sun CEO Scott McNealy probably shocked a few Detroit executives at a press event when he said he "often refers to the automobile as nothing more than a Java browser with tires." MORE >> -- MICHAEL SIPPEY Michael