Subject: Re: NetBSD/toaster at LinuxWorld San Francisco
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Jesse Off <joff@embeddedARM.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 08/11/2005 09:18:47
> Not to belittle the achievment but mankind should be perfectly happy
> with a toaster that has only 2 inputs and no CPU's... This would have
> been a really cool flag for NetBSD had there been a production
> toaster that contained a CPU capable of running NetBSD but adding a
> NetBSD capable CPU to a normally dumb toaster is kind of like adding
> a CPU to a toilet...
Have you ever seen Japanese toilets? http://www.theplumber.com/japan.html
Not quite as far-fetched as you might think.
:-)
Seriously though, it is ridiculous. The intent was to attract people at
LinuxWorld by leveraging the "NetBSD/toaster" joke and as a token embedded
application for Technologic System customers. Automating a toaster isn't
much different than regulating chemical temperatures in industrial
production lines.
//Jesse Off