Dale Botkin wrote: >> More to reality - some guy named Jim Clark [SGI, Netscape, >> Healtheon] built a $30,000,000 automated sailboat with 24 >> SGI workstations on board. He can sit in his office in silicone >> vallee and steer the boat realtime in the south pacific. >> Uses icebergs for slalom courses. You might check what he >> uses for a comm link. > >Jeez, why wouldya?? If I had $30M I'll be damned if I'd have my boat on >its own while I was working. I'd be in the sucker, somewhere warm, and >there'd be more silicone than silicon along with me, if ya catch my >drift... > He's already been there, done all that. Has a whole crew on board, 2 sailors and 2 systems analysts, but he sails it from Sunnyvale. Sails it to Tahiti during the week, and flies his Learjet in on weekends - for latest round of debugging. Back to SV, sends boat on to Pitcairn. Tuff love. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:","[SX]:","[AVR]:" =uP ONLY! "[EE]:","[OT]:" =Other "[BUY]:","[AD]:" =Ads