From: | Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com |
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Subject: | Skillsofts and DINABs... |
Date: | Sun, 21 Feb 1999 16:44:09 -0600 |
:program a utility with a built in computer skill. Does this mean that
:he could use the knowledge or whatever on other skillsofts (or from
:just plain skills they have) into expert utilities? Think of a
:financial expert system designed for moneylaundering or what have
:you...
IMO, no. Frames / DINAB is designed to opperate matrix utilities, and
don't have the broad programing needed to utilize skills.
Secondly, the frame / dinab does not have the intellegence to make
good judgements as to HOW to use a skill. That sort of thing is more in
the relm of semi-automous knowbots, which are MUCH harder to program.
: Then, just to be really sick, add in my previous question of
:cranial cyberdecks running in the background. Now you could give
:Build/Repair expert chips to your deckers, and they could help out
:riggers with vehicle repairs on downtime. Or give them a tactics chip,
:and let them act as team coordinator, especially with all the
:additional data coming in about the responding sec teams movements....
Seeing as the character had an encephalon, which acts as a knowsoft
link, that is possible for some skills already. Active Skills running as
skillsofts require skillwires, and I don't think adding the Skillsoft to a
frame would change that.
: New question: since softlink systems can access datasofts, could it
:be modified by a cyberdoc with sufficent cybertechnology skills to
:write data to optical chips as well as read it? This could be used as
:a sort of "offline" data storage for deckers with c2 decks, as well as
:for other uses. If so, what would it's I/O speed be? And would data so
:accessed add to System or Softlink System Load Delay? and if so, when?
:Everytime accessed, or only the first time it was accessed?
:
: -Mojo.
A datajack is already capable of data output. The problem is, most
chips can't just record any input- they need to be cooked. There are some
exceptions, I think, but they are not well detailed, and those may be a
different kind / size / format / medium from other "chips".
What might be more "cannon" is hooking up a softlink to a computer,
and reading its memory as a datasoft. Of course, this is also possible
with a datajack, and the datajack can output as well...
As for the load delay, SR3 doesn't seem to use load delay. I think
accessing a chip is a free action, like other uses of cyberware.
Mongoose