I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date Sent:1993-Dec-31 03:08pm
From: Bruce Pihlamae
PIHLAMAE BRUCE
Dept: Information Services
Tel No: (06) 289-7056
TO: Remote Addressee ( _traveller@engrg.uwo.ca )
Subject: RE: Computers
Topic: TNE Computers
I like the discussion on TNE Computers.
When I was first learning computers we had a lecturer who was
responsible for maintaining and programming the ANALOG terrain
following computers on the Australian f-111 (later upgraded
to digital). These were complex boxes of cogs and switches into
which the pilot would punch their location, destination, and other
details and this box would fly the craft to the destination.
Where do you see Analog computers in the hierarchy.
Although we have given them up for silicon there may be places and
cases where chemical, biological, analog, or nano-tech style computers
are developed and advanced to the level of or beyond silicon based
machines. What would one of these silicon based life forms make of
a computer built of nano-tech pieces each with it's own memory and
acting like a synaps in a large computer brain AI.
Far fetched? About as far as THE VIRUS.
Topic: RE: Robots (specificly to GDW designers)
Please don't make the VIRUS an integral part of any computer/robotic
creation rules for TNE. There are some of us who don't live in the
VIRUS universe and we would like to use the Robotic/Computer rules
too.
Topic: RE: Submissions to Challenge.
I don't see why they can't continue to take MegaT submissions. It
shouldn't matter that your not in the exactly defined TNE universe
as GDW themselves are offering variations to their own rules AND
although I haven't seen it yet are apparently defining technologies
(ala reactionless drives) which DO NOT EXIST in the official TNE
universe (well they used to). They (GDW) appear to be trying to
convert TNE into a generic high-tech role playing system (ala GURPS).
I have no problem with a generic system, why should Challenge?
So, anything goes?
Bruce... [email removed]