| From: | Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: What's a megapulse? |
| Date: | Wed, 27 May 1998 12:34:25 +1000 |
<SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET>
> The reason I was aking this is beacuse all my current players are
>beginners, so I needed
>something to make them understand how powerful those decks are... Never
>mind, tough, just forget I asked this.
Do it like this: Compare a modern PC to the early mainframes. A modern PC
could _emulate_ the early mainframe and still run circles around them. Ask
them to think of their PC as the early mainframe (the time frame is more or
less right, if you take into account the hiccup with the crash of '29).
Now take the quote from FastJack in the Denver Sourcebook, where he states
he uses a late-generation PowerPC chip (this is circa 2010, if I remember
right, and the chip was a few years old then). This chip wouldn't hit our
shelves for at least another few years. He uses that chip to do low-level
I/O work, IIRC.
So... the most powerful computer chip we could make today would be (barely)
suitable for a tertiary processor in a cyberdeck. (Okay, FastJack's deck
could probably run circles around an Excalibur, but it's the idea).
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.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
