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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Megapulses
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 15:58:54 +0200
>What exactly is a Megapulse, anyway? By my reckoning it has to be a lot
>smaller than a byte. The sections in sourcebooks with "blank Mp deleted
>by SysOp" don't make sense because no human being can write two or three
>Megabytes in a few hours.

Well, you could work out a conversion in the following way: see how much a
minute of "high-quality audio" is in megabytes, and then calculate how much
it is in megapulses (see Shadowbeat). Divide one by the other and you have a
conversion factor.
Note that I did this and well, you get a pretty large figure. You can always
assume there are loads of codes in between text in the 2050s, and that these
codes are usually larger than the text block itself...

>What is a Megapulse?????????????

A fictional unit of measure :)

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