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Message no. 1
From: Todd Montgomery <tmont@****.WVU.EDU>
Subject: Matrix Progs and Script
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 12:44:45 -0400
Yes Ed, I did get a lot of my ideas from "Into the Shadows". But most
of the idea comes from my own experience with what is called Corporate
Scrip. This is what the coal companies give to their employees to buy
things at the company store. Same concept and most businesses in the
area accept it as cash.

On to another idea. Someone mentioned non-standard matrix programs.
Well, I have invented a few. I will send them out with my next Brand
Name Cyberware post. If I ever live through this NASA presentation
this week. The programs I have done are basically utilities that can
assist in programming tasks. I basically just made compilers. But they
affect the time and the ability of programming. These are on-line
tools that allow the programmer to use pre-written functions/resources
to produce custom programs. The concept is the same as if we were
writing a MS-Windows or X-Windows application today. The details will
have to wait until I get the post out. I want to test them pretty
thoroughly before I use them. Also I have toyed with custom composite
progs. Like mixing slow and attack into one program that has the
characteristics of both BUT doesn't work like in Virtual Realities as
launching two programs at once. This is an integrated program. I have
also been playing with the idea of using hardwired programs, programs
that don't take up memory, but are hardwired into a deck. ANd in this
vein I have played with programs that are deadly... Programs that,
because they are hardware, can effect the physical being of other
deckers. These progs act very much like Black Ice and are extremely
complicated, both in Hardware and Softwar, but can be done. Other
options are ways to keep deckers jacked in and progs to actually
physically damage the system. Nasty but could be effective. ANd
needless to say RARE, EXPENSIVE, and almost non-existent. I also have
some new hardware for decks and some new ideas for systems. But all of
this is still in development.

P.S. Could someone send me a message letting me know if this got through?

Thanks.

-- Quiktek
a.k.a. Todd Montgomery
tmont@****.wvu.edu
tmont@***.wvu.edu
un032507@*******.wvnet.edu

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