| From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: What's a megapulse? |
| Date: | Wed, 27 May 1998 00:08:26 -0400 |
At 11:17 PM 5/26/98 -0400, K wrote:
>Just FYI, ther -IS- a way to figure out a MP in SR measurements.
Using the
>"Universal Brotherhood" sourcebook, which has an exacting MP value,
you could
>do a translation into "MP Measurements" from "Current Memory"
format(s).
Really?
I was under the impression that even simple textfiles in Shadowrun had
a signifigant deal of 'overhead' that precluded any sort of
conversion. After all, there's text styling, specific fonts used (most
likely included whole in the document), graphics (the UB file had
quite a few pictures in it, how much MP did they take up?), audio
annotations, subliminal sub-tracks that encourage you to buy Fuchi (or
MCT, depeding on who wrote the wordprocessor software that generated
the file) for when the file is viewed in the ASIST environment of a
cyberdeck, that sort of thing.
It's like the difference today between a flat plaintext file (where
you can reasonably asume 1 character = 1 byte) and a full blown html
document, with the associated background graphics, style sheets,
inline .gifs, scripting language applets and so on. The two documents
might have the exact same content, text-wise, but one is going to be a
lot bigger than the other.
Advance the SOTA curve 60-70 years, and you can see why bytes had to
be abandoned as an outmoded scale of measure.
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