From:	"Dylan Norhtup (PHY)" <norhtup@*****.CAS.USF.EDU>
Subject:	Re: multiple cyberdecks
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 1993 22:48:28 -0400

On Mon, 19 Jul 1993, Richard Pieri wrote:

> You can't. Here's why:

Say that to Edison, Tesla, Hawking, or any of a number of great minds that
push forward and do that which cannot be done. (Sorry that's my usual
response to those words.)

> A cyberdeck is a special combination of micro-supercomputer and simsense
> rig. That's the rub; your brain can only deal with one set of signals at a
> time. The cyberdeck's simrig overrides your natural inputs, putting your
> brain into a virtual reality. If you have two cyberdecks competing for your
> brain, either one would cancel the input of the other, or they'd both
> totally confuse the shit out of you. In either case it is impossible to
> handle two decks simultaneously.

You can. Here's why.

The only simsense signal to deal with would be the one from the Dummy
deck. It would be feeding it's signal to the second deck much the same
way that the Matrix feeds it's signal to the Dummy deck in the first
place. Whoever first said that a simple router would be simpler, cheaper and
easier was entirely correct. However that does not mean that cyberdecks
cannot be used as very expensive routers. Just make a few mods (which any
technomancer worth his silicon could do with his eyes closed) and off you go.

Doc X

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