From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: ASIST assistance?
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 15:51:14 -0700

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> From: Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: ASIST assistance?
> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 4:43 PM
>
> 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.
>

I saw that flaw when I was typing it. Just hoped no one would catch me on
it. D'oh!

You may have on that... I don't know much about BIOS except that I don't
want to frag with it. =) What exactly does BIOS do, and how would that
relate to the operation of a cyberdeck? I could imagine the ASIST being
part of the BIOS, but I don't know that I'd say that it is the BIOS. You
can take the ASIST out of a cyberdeck, slap a monitor and a keyboard on it,
and you have a turtle. You take the BIOS out of a PC, and you've got an
useless assembly of glass, plastic, and metal.