| From: | Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com |
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| Subject: | Headware Memory |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:15:05 EST |
> And its the limit a lot of GMs go by. I just wanted to point out that
> other parts of the book implied other things. (The interpertation I
> use is that 1000 Gp was the limit as of 2052.)
> Of course, since there is a lack of hard numbers to start with, that
> means there's a bit of play in the final numbers that a GM chooses to
> use for this. Headware chips might increment essence every 500 Mp
> instead of every 100, for example.
actually, a Giga pulse would be 1024! MEGA pulses (MP's not GP's) because we
are dealing with binary numbers here. I would also like to come down on the
side of the argument for the always availability for headware memory. Most
people who install datajacks have headware memory, for one reason or another,
mostly to tuck the odd knowsoft right into headware, or other such off the top
of the head data. Those who dont tend to be types who have tied so much
essance up in other things they cant afford even the .1 a bit of headware
memory would cost.
On the subject of memory prices, I would like to suggest the following for
your consideration: While it is possible to get headware memory in any amount
you desire, Memory that falls under a natural binary boundry should get a 15%
discount, since its possible to implement with off the shelf chips. (this
would be numbers like 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024), this represents not having to
dig around for an odd sized memory chip to bring it up to a strange number.
All of this reminds me of just how flawed Bill Gates' vision was. in 1980, he
thought 10 frames of 64k would run any program that could ever be written.
Yet today we routinly sell computers with 64 megabites... Or TWO ORDERS of
magnitude greater than Gates' vision. And yet this is the person 90% of the
people in america look to to provide their operating system and other major
software.
(Starrngr pauses and then notices the growing carp shaped shadow surrounding
him...) Ooops......
