From:	"Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Smart frames (fwd)
Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 1993 13:29:22 -0500

Sent to only me by mistake


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 11:22:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: CARTER@***.EDU
To: hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
Subject: Re: Smart frames

>>Do they? I thought that smart frames were non-interactive in that they
>>detach and carry out orders.

>>I know in unix it is very easy to start a program, slam it into the
>>background, log out, and have it keep doing its thing.

It is that easy to do with a program in unix, but you have to remember that the
program is running on a computer, namely the unix machine your using. Well, the
smartframe is running on a computer also, the cyberdeck. You take the cyberdeck
off-line and the program no longer runs.

The problem these people are running into talking about smartframes is the
errorous belief that a smartframe is an independent matrix entity. A smartframe
is just a dumb frame with limited AI capablities. It can react to situations
that they are not programed for, but they are by no means independent or
deckers.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker

P.S. So how many people have signed onto plot-d?

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