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Message no. 1
From: Brian Johnson <john0375@****.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Memory/Processing time
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 15:43:18 -0500 (CDT)
I had an Idea yesterday. Deckers who have access to a mainframe should
be able to churn out their software much better than using a deck or
{terminal}. So one of the main items of Computer crime is theft of
processing time. Most processors have down (idle) time, and if you sneak
in and give the CPU/SPU something that you tell it to do while idle, you
could have a much faster solution. Co. Might catch it and delete, but
them's the breaks.

Second Item. Using Computer Mainframe storage. Mainframes have much
greater storage capacities than decks, so If you had a big file you
needed to keep, attach a smart virus to it, give the file as payload, and
have the virus put the file in a series of DataStores. So much memory
would make it a task to detect, and the virus could be told to stay on
the site (not travel) and move to a different DS everytime someone did a
Browse Utility.

Anyone?
Message no. 2
From: "Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Memory/Processing time
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:16:18 GMT
Brian Johnson writes

>
> I had an Idea yesterday. Deckers who have access to a mainframe should
> be able to churn out their software much better than using a deck or
> {terminal}.
There are modifiers for this, in both versions of virtual realities i
think (but use VR2)

Mark
Message no. 3
From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Memory/Processing time
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:14:31 +0200
Mark Steedman wrote:
> Brian Johnson writes
> > I had an Idea yesterday. Deckers who have access to a mainframe should
> > be able to churn out their software much better than using a deck or
> > {terminal}.
> There are modifiers for this, in both versions of virtual realities i
> think (but use VR2)See VR2 pp. 101-102. Mainframes give a Task Bonus (see p.77 VR2)
of +4,
or +5 if a "Programming Suite" is used.

Sascha
Message no. 4
From: Luc <rjwate01@*****.louisville.edu>
Subject: Re: Memory/Processing time
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:16:16 -0500 (EDT)
> Mark Steedman wrote:
> > Brian Johnson writes
> > > I had an Idea yesterday. Deckers who have access to a mainframe should
> > > be able to churn out their software much better than using a deck or
> > > {terminal}.
> > There are modifiers for this, in both versions of virtual realities i
> > think (but use VR2)See VR2 pp. 101-102. Mainframes give a Task Bonus (see p.77
VR2) of +4,
> or +5 if a "Programming Suite" is used.

The +4 gained from working on a mainframe means that every day of work done on
the mainframe counts as 5 days towards finishing the project...and as i recall
VR1 had no rules for shortening time for programming which is why so many net
sources had sruff for shortening programming time :).

--
Luc AKA BobW

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