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Further evidence from Top Gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVkedyQZfwQ




Here's the second part where they put it on top of the towerblock and demolish it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk


Demolish the building, yes.


I wish they hadn't done obvious work on the car during it--you can see they installed reinforcement bars and replaced the windshield halfway in, before they started dropping stuff on it. If they made such obvious improvements, I don't believe for a second they didn't make less obvious ones (say during the sea water).

Still a hell of a truck.


They added a plexiglass windshield halfway because it's dangerous to drive without one. They did mention this.


Which Unix kernel is the analog of this truck? i.e., keeps chugging under extreme CPU/memory/IO/interrupts/multithreading load?



Amiga Workbench, while not a Unix was very capable of this. I used to do 3D Renders in Imagine while making music on OctaMED SoundStudio without drops. Likewise, you could usually carry on during heavy floppy access, whereas most other OSes of the day would hang temporarily.


Absolutely amazing.


Beat me to in! :)


It's linked from the article.



Some of those, maybe 3, are in fact land cruisers and not Hiluxes.




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