Does it have traction control?

[threpwood]

Originally Posted by markk

And the more FUN way to find out is to:

1) Wait for a rainy day
2) Start the car
3) Approach a 90 degrees turn with say 40/50 km/h in second gear
4) Lift throttle, steer in hard
5) When it start to understeer / slide over the front wheels FULLY press the accelerator

- A If you crash -> you didn't have tc, but needed it badly
- B If you don't crash, cought the slide, have a big smile and turned around to do it again -> you didn't have tc, and you don't need it either
- C If nothing happend and wonder what's all the fuss -> you have tc and need it
- D If nothing happend and really are bored with this kind of handling -> you have tc but you actually don't need it. But hey, it can be turned of with the switch on the console ...

Markk, out of curiosity, are you a computer programmer?

Mine has the PSM and I could feel that it works everytime I made a 90 degree right turn blasting out from nearby convenience store. The left wheels stop moving for a few fraction of secs, preventing the backend of the car to spin out.

[markk]

> Markk, out of curiosity, are you a computer programmer?

ROFLOL.

Officially I'm an IT infrastructure architect now which means I write proposals and advise to management and make global designs of IT-infrastructure. So I can't say that I use more than MS-Word and Visio currently...

A long the way, way, way, back, I used to do Unix systemprogramming in C. Damn I even wrote Unix device drivers, programmed (university) a Pascal compiler in C, lex and yacc and ported the Oracle RDBMS over various Europian Unix flavours. Time flies....

;-)


Mark.

By the way:

1) I specifically ordered my new BoxsterS without PSM and haven't regret it for a single day...

2) If you know what I'm talking about I have a nice challenge for you (university challenge I once won). What is the smallest K&R C program which will produce a core dump on a PDP-11 running BSD ?

[BuffaloBoxster]

Originally Posted by markk

on a PDP-11 running BSD ?

You are dating yourself much more than you really want to

Sheesh the people here think I'm old because I remember writing batch files in DOS.

[rteichman]

Originally Posted by BuffaloBoxster

"on a PDP-11 running BSD ?"
You are dating yourself much more than you really want to

Wow a modern operating system! you lucky dog Back in my day we used RSX-11M as the OS on the PDP-11

[threpwood]

Originally Posted by markk

By the way:

1) I specifically ordered my new BoxsterS without PSM and haven't regret it for a single day...

2) If you know what I'm talking about I have a nice challenge for you (university challenge I once won). What is the smallest K&R C program which will produce a core dump on a PDP-11 running BSD ?

Wow that is impressive I always wanted to learn Oracle...

I work daily with biotech so I have to tackle your question with answer. Is it abort (void)? or a SIGABRT signal, which causes the program to abort abnormally without going through cleanup.

[markk]

> Wow that is impressive I always wanted to learn Oracle...

Who says I learned Oracle ?
I just ported the RDBMS / Oracle source code, which was (is?) written in C, to other Unix flavors. Actually I learned a lot that time. Worked with Oracle V7 when everybody was migrating from V5 to V6.

Shortest C-source-code I could think of to produce a core dump is "main;"
(Actual C-source-code is between the quotes and does not include the quotes)

In a K&R C compiler environment this creates an integer object variable somewhere in memory called "main". When that is linked with the startup code which contains a hardcoded JSR (Jub SubRoutine) to the adres of the symbol "main" all **************** hits the fan because there is no real code at that adres...

Now let's talk about Boxster's. I wonder, in what source code would PSM logic be written ?


Mark.