From:	Dustin Wood <cukoo@*****.NET>
Subject:	Re: Some question on memory.
Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:26:45 -0700

>On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Dustin Wood wrote:
>
>> In order for a chipjack to work effectively for skillsofts, it has a
>> horrendous DFR, so in theory, they could apply the same technology to the
>> DFR for Datajacks right? It is only a I/O for data unless it is connected
>> to other hardware.
>
> I think the difference here lies in Data Flow Rate (DFR) versus
>Softlink System Load Delay (SSLD). As far as I know, the data for
>skillsofts does not "flow" per se. It's like having a program loaded
>into your computer's RAM. Now in the case of a datajack, consider the
>following. Your computer may be horrendously fast (a Pentium running at
>89.9998 MHz :) but if your modem is only at 300 baud, you're screwed. It
>was only until recently that exceedingly fast communication between
>computers caught up with a computer's intrinsic processing speeds. Thus,
>it may be that technology in SRII is at that same stage (albeit at a
>higher point in the tech curve). So the datajack is the same way. The
>softlink is analogous to a program already running in RAM, while the DFR
>of the datajack is purely an I/O device limitation.
>
My point lies in the fact that both are from external sources. Why could
information flow into your head faster from the matrix than from a chip
plugged into your skull? This is saying that the character doesn't have
headware memory, in which case we'll say he has a cranial cyberdeck. Even a
fully internal system, using headware memory as storage memory, uses a load
speed before he can run a utility.

Even though he must force the matrix to execute his utility (using the
systems security code) the program is still running on his deck.