TA::> A general question to you all, am I horribly misguided in interpreting
::>a Model/1bis as a Basic Instruction Set Model 1 ? Or does bis stand for
::>something cryptic that is not in my books... I'm gonna feel really silly i
::>it doesn't mean what I think it means and I design rules around this...
If you're referring to the designation used in CT (the little
black books), then a M/1bis was for all intents and purposes a
M/1 with the mass storage subsystems of a M/2. It seems that
"bis" was used in the same manner that it is in
telecommunications, i.e., fits the basic spec, but is enhanced in
some way (cf. V.32 versus V.32bis with regards to modems...). In
that sense, one could say that a M/anything greater than 1 was in
fact a M/1bis, but since there was already a M/2 et cetera, the
M/1bis was simply used to designate the hybrid. If you consider
today's typical MS-DOS PC as being a M/1 (not really accurate;
see other posts on the computer thread), then a M/1bis would be a
PC with the kind of mass storage that you see on major bulletin
board systems (cf. Exec-PC, in the midwest U.S.) or large
departmental servers (i.e., storage measured in GB, not MB).
Or so runs my interpretation; as is usual in RPGs, your mileage
may vary...
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