From:	Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Program Carriers (Was Spirits and the matrix)
Date:	Tue, 11 Apr 1995 22:02:08 +1000

P Ward writes:

> The lack of Program carriers was due to two things;

iii) They do not fit in with the somewhat expanded and modified (and
probably more generally better thought out) SRII rules for the matrix. The
idea of receiving all the data from the matrix directly into a deckers brain
is completely ludicrous. He _needs_ the deck to interpret it for him. Try
scanning a binary file using a text editor one day, see how much sense it
makes. Then try running the binary (or putting it through an appropriate
program), now it makes sense, right? Same thing with a deck, the deck's
soft/hardware does all the neccessary interpretation for the decker-matrix
interface. A datajack does not do processing, and the deckers brain does not
run binary code, nor the matrix run electrochemical signals.

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Damion Milliken Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: adm82@***.edu.au

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