From:	Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Program Carriers (Was Spirits and the matrix)
Date:	Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:48:09 +1000

Guy Swartwood writes:

> I would think that you would need to write a small program (whoopi) that
> would cut out the keyboard interface. I don't know much about internals of a
> computer, but doesn't the keyboard have an interupt line or needed to be
> polled to give information to the computer? That wastes time. The program
> could be loaded into memory, cut out the keyboard, and run. The keyboard
> could either be activated by dropping the program or rebooting the system.

Whatever it is, I couldn't see any reason why a decker using a full keyboard
deck couldn't do it just as easily as one using a "box" deck. Since the
datajack inputs directly to the deckers brain, he can just decides to ignore
the keyboard input and use the 'jack (probably requring small adjustments as
you described).

Deckers can do it if they choose, who really needs to know how?

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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: adm82@***.edu.au

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