From:	Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: ASIST assistance?
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 18:43:45 EST

> 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.

Note the important part there...the keyboard. ASIST is more than
just the output driver, it's also the INPUT driver. Okay, so it's
not an OS....but it is at least the BIOS. And a lot of the OS is a
layer above the BIOS that does the same function.

-=SwiftOne=-