From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Acers
Date:	Tue, 26 May 1998 18:39:36 -0300

Gurth escreveu:
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> Ubiratan P. Alberton said on 23:44/25 May 98...
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> > After all, in spite of the motors, it's a suit of armor, not a vehicle.
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> But where exactly does the difference between a suit of powered armor
> and a walker vehicle lie?
>

The Harsuits from Bubblegum Crisis (anime) are suits of powered
armor. The Labors from
Patlabor (also anime) are walker vehicles, and humanoid at that. Another
walker would be
the tank in the end of Ghost in the Shell (that spider thing).
IMHO, a walker vwhicle is something you pilot from a cockpit, like
that one you tried to build.
A power-armor, in spite of its servo-systems, is still a suit of
armor. It can't stand
on its feet if there's no one inside it, nor does it have any rigger
systems (you "control" it
by moving your own body.). Howz that?

Bira