From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	ASIST assistance?
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 15:25:28 -0700

> >
> > 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 :) .
>

I'll check when I get home (this is becoming my catch phrase, I think). I
remember they talk a lot about it in the Shadowbeat sourcebook, the #1
sourcebook, if you ask me. I'm always wanting to know how much it costs to
buy an electric accordian.

Anyway, there's a big thing on simsense recordings, and the ASIST signal,
or ASIST interface is how it broadcasts the "simsense" feed to your brain.
Same thing as with rigger controls and cyberdecks...

Ah, VR2.0 is in my bag... from the fluff on page 9:

These circuits here are the ASIST interface drivers. They let you see and
hear and feel things in the **MATRIX**. You have a simsense unit in your
home, thanks to your poor mother's honest work so you know how ASIST works.
It lets your stories and adventures seem as if they were real. Just as
simsense lets your play seem so real, the ASIST cirucutes in your
cyberterminal make your work seem real too.


I stand by my earlier definition, though I guess it's probably closer to a
video card than a driver. The OS is the platform on which the programs
run. Calling ASIST an OS is like calling my keyboard and monitor an OS.