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Message no. 1
From: SCROSE <scrose@****.COM>
Subject: OS Wars
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:44:09 -0600
Spider Murphy wrote:
>
> Karl Low wrote:
>
> > To swing this slightly back on topic..
> > Has anybody tried to work out a system for incompatible OS penalties in
> > decking?
> >
>
> Aren't those called Ultraviolet systems? :)

This is something I've been working on in spare time. And also how to
streamline this is it's quick and dirty.

> Well, lemme see. What can I spin off my cuff.
>
> Take the year that your deck's OS was made. Take the year of the opposing
> system's OS. Divide by 2. That is your modifier to all rolls and inititives
> while decking that system.

This looks like a decent way to generate the test.

> Hmm.. I should get out VR2.. but it's late, and I don't wanna. :) Good luck.

why not other than I can never find what I'm looking for when I want it
I can't see any reason not to. :)
Message no. 2
From: Dale R Critchley <dale.critchley@********.COM>
Subject: OS Wars
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:06:08 -0700
Karl Low wrote:
> To swing this slightly back on topic..
> Has anybody tried to work out a system for incompatible OS penalties in
> decking?
I figure, given the CGI nature of the Matrix, the Mac OS won out and just translates
everything perfectly (Anyone who's used a Mac in the past 5 years or so knows little
or nothing of compatibility problems). If you insist on using a non-Mac system,
you're probably not a decker.
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Message no. 3
From: William Gallas <wgallas@*****.FR>
Subject: Re: OS Wars
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:07:30 +0100
>> Has anybody tried to work out a system for incompatible OS
penalties in
>> decking?
>I figure, given the CGI nature of the Matrix, the Mac OS won out and just
translates
>everything perfectly (Anyone who's used a Mac in the past 5 years or so
knows little
>or nothing of compatibility problems). If you insist on using a non-Mac
system,
>you're probably not a decker.

????!!!???? I don't think you're a programer...


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Message no. 4
From: SCROSE <scrose@****.COM>
Subject: Re: OS Wars
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:02:00 -0600
Dale R Critchley wrote:
>
> Karl Low wrote:
> > To swing this slightly back on topic..
> > Has anybody tried to work out a system for incompatible OS penalties in
> > decking?
> I figure, given the CGI nature of the Matrix, the Mac OS won out and just translates
> everything perfectly (Anyone who's used a Mac in the past 5 years or so knows little
> or nothing of compatibility problems). If you insist on using a non-Mac system,
> you're probably not a decker.

Lets see your mac or any other PC for that matter talk to anything other
than something just like it without an interpreter and/or emulator. The
world of mainframes and/or midrange machines such as the AS400 clients
are still going to need an interpreter to talk to it. Large scale
systems are still going to be needed even 60 years in the future. Then
we get into sculpted systems IMO it does not matter one bit what OS is
the remote system. Just like almost ever OS and hardware platform uses a
GUI mouse and icons now and they all can and do hook into the internet
regardless of the what type of hardware the client is running on... In
Shadow run terms it doesn't matter if you are using a bread boarded
system with bits and pieces form everywhere. An off the self fairlight
or some exotic totally custom deck built to spec. Once you get into
someone else's sculpted system it's all about understanding the symbols
the system in question is using to represent system functions... Don't
matter beans what you have on your end long as it's translating the
information from the host correctly.

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