From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 18:14:34 -0300

Jeremy "Bolthy" Zimmerman escreveu:

> > I prefer the other theory of the "unified OS" that came after the
> > Crash, but with
> > some twists: The base code for all systems is the same (ASIST), with
> > each corp adding
> > it's own "twist" to the system it makes in 2059. Mostly cosmetic
> > changes, because everybody
> > else will still use ASIST and major changes create incompatibility.
> > ASIST would be
> > currently in version 7.0, because it's the 7th generation of decks now.
> >
>
> I don't have any of my fluff books at hand, but I thought ASIST was the
> simsense interface... I'd view that more on par with drivers for my monitor
> than as an OS. Hmmm... I wonder if it's a matter of computers being more
> modular... =T


I don't have yhe books either, but ASIST is the thing that regulates
everytihng in
the deck. It interprets you orders and tells the hardware to do what you
want. That looks
like an OS to me :) .

Ubiratan