From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Re: What's a megapulse?
Date:	Tue, 26 May 1998 17:30:32 -0600

Ubiratan P. Alberton wrote:
/
/ With the recent computing discussion going around here, something has
/ come to my mind. How much is a megapulse worth in today's "data
/ measuring units (i.e bytes, megabytes, etc.).

Nobody knows. FASA didn't define the term on purpose (we think) so
that it wouldn't get tied down and possibly passed by present
technology. Witness the RPG Traveller. They had a real world limit on
the computer memory in their games that was surpased by real world
technology in the 80s. In Traveller hyperspace travel is used everyday
but their computers aren't much better than a Comodore 64 :) FASA
wisely didn't define a megapulse and can't get caught in that trap.

A Megapulse is a lot. It has always been a lot. And it will always be
a lot.

-David
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