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From: MATUSKEY@***.EDU
Subject: I got a bad feeling about this...
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 01:54:56 CET
>>>>[I've added what I could to the defenses, although they're mostly
redundancies for what's already up. I'm also churning out the smart frames
(v.2).
This new construct has me slightly worried. Its actions remind me of
RUFUS or MONICA: this couldn't be M's first attempt at writing herself to
software, could it? But then, why would it come here? Maybe it's a
proto-AI: some new program that's starting to gain sentience. Or maybe its
what I suggested earlier, a big, nasty program designed to take out some of
the deckers that have conveniently gathered in this one system. Neah, I'm
probably just being paranoid...]<<<<
-Highlander (13:35:43/2-17-54)

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