From:	"S.F. Eley" <gt6877c@*****.GATECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Megapulses
Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 1995 14:27:10 -0400

John IV writes:

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

It's a fictional, arbitrary unit that was never defined by FASA.

A number of collated guesses on the exact size of the Megapulse can be found
from Aaron Wigley's Web page, at
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~wigs/Srun/Tech/Matrix/Mpulse.html

I won't quote the whole article here, for size reasons.. It's got a number
of guesses putting the size of a Pulse at 16 bits, 24 bits, 64 bits, 1024
bits, etc., finally ending with a "Who cares?" post that happens to be the
one I agree with. I'd suggest you check out the article, it's very
interesting and one of the better things on Aaron's rather extensive Web
site.


Blessings,

_TNX._

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