From:	Robert Hayden <rahayden@*****.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Re: Encephalons (another question)
Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 92 01:50:39 CET

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992, BOSCHETM%IPFWCVAX.bitnet@*****.nic.SURFnet.nl wrote:

>
> >>>>>[If a decker was truely mutlitasking all of his icons would be
functionin
> at the same time. Windows is not a mutlitasking system, all it does is task
> swapping. If you could truely multitask like this with an Encephalon it would
> enable a decker to get several data steals done at the same
time.]<<<<<
> --Ichneumon <No Time/No Date NA-UCAS-MW REMOTE>

Heh, i doubt ANY decker would be silly enough to try to work in windows. :)

My original question was, and still is, is the expert system and CPU on an
encephalon smart and powerful enough to multitask (not task switch) more
than one datajack combination?

It would be my forst instinct that YES, it can, providing you have an I/O
SPU for each datajack to act as an FIFO buffer. But, in order to limit
it to something mortals can handle, lets say you can only have the number
of datajacks equal to the rating of the encelphalon +1. This way, people
without an encephalon can use one datajack, while those with can use multiple.

So, that decker with an Encephalon Mk4 can have 5 datajacks installed AND
WORKING at the same time with NO degradation in speed.

As for the statement that a person could only issue a command to one
process at a time, I have to take issue with that. Accorthing to Shadowtech,
using these can "multitask your congitive needs". I would think, based on
that statement, if you had 5 cyberdecks running, you could control all
five of them in real time. Of course, that costs nuyen, but money is ONLY
money.

Imagine making a run on the Arcology with 3 cyberdecks at the same time
you multitask a process and are playing studpoker with the guys

} Hey guys, i'll bet 200. Gimmie 3 cards. Oh, i just took down a killer
} IC. I'll raise you 50 and call. Hey, a kool datastore, let's see, what
} we have here. Personnel reconds? Hey, full house, beat that guys. Oh
} shit, Black IC!


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