Travelling with the times...

[ACK!!]

Originally posted by Aramis:
Gibson wrote great stuff. But it isn't stuff I want in my traveller universe.

Sure, some groups will use "Virtual Spaces", but most will use less data-intese methods of presentation. If they go for a monolithic net at all.

And, when it comes to three-d virtual spaces, there is a real problem: the more encompasing the virtual space, the harder it becomes to find data, especially since most data out there is linguistic or tabular. (Monolithic nets with cheap sotrage means textual and tabular data can proliferate...)

That is cool if that is the way you want to go.

It is more a descriptive change as opposed to rule change IMTU. I play it as we go and try to NOT write all kinds of convoluted details and rule making on the subject.

BTW, I have been looking in my LBB re-prints and cannot find an explanation of what the following represents:

bis : as in the classic Model 1/bis

fib : as in a Model 6/fib (I know it means it is on fiber backup but what does fib actually stand for?)

ISMM : As in a ISMM Model 6 computer in the description of a ship.

What do all these things stand for exactly?

 

[ACK!!]

Originally posted by Aramis:
Gibson wrote great stuff. But it isn't stuff I want in my traveller universe.

Sure, some groups will use "Virtual Spaces", but most will use less data-intese methods of presentation. If they go for a monolithic net at all.

And, when it comes to three-d virtual spaces, there is a real problem: the more encompasing the virtual space, the harder it becomes to find data, especially since most data out there is linguistic or tabular. (Monolithic nets with cheap sotrage means textual and tabular data can proliferate...)

That is cool if that is the way you want to go.

It is more a descriptive change as opposed to rule change IMTU. I play it as we go and try to NOT write all kinds of convoluted details and rule making on the subject.

BTW, I have been looking in my LBB re-prints and cannot find an explanation of what the following represents:

bis : as in the classic Model 1/bis

fib : as in a Model 6/fib (I know it means it is on fiber backup but what does fib actually stand for?)

ISMM : As in a ISMM Model 6 computer in the description of a ship.

What do all these things stand for exactly?

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by ACK:

It is more a descriptive change as opposed to rule change IMTU. I play it as we go and try to NOT write all kinds of convoluted details and rule making on the subject.

BTW, I have been looking in my LBB re-prints and cannot find an explanation of what the following represents:

bis : as in the classic Model 1/bis

fib : as in a Model 6/fib (I know it means it is on fiber backup but what does fib actually stand for?)

ISMM : As in a ISMM Model 6 computer in the description of a ship.

What do all these things stand for exactly?

The following are guesses and only "Real" IMTU.

ISMM = Imperial Standard Mathematical Machine. A reference IMTU to a machine wired to work as a 100% true compatible to the Imperial Virtual Machine, rather than running it as a virtual machine.

fib = shortend from fiber

bis = vilani for "improved"

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by ACK:

It is more a descriptive change as opposed to rule change IMTU. I play it as we go and try to NOT write all kinds of convoluted details and rule making on the subject.

BTW, I have been looking in my LBB re-prints and cannot find an explanation of what the following represents:

bis : as in the classic Model 1/bis

fib : as in a Model 6/fib (I know it means it is on fiber backup but what does fib actually stand for?)

ISMM : As in a ISMM Model 6 computer in the description of a ship.

What do all these things stand for exactly?

The following are guesses and only "Real" IMTU.

ISMM = Imperial Standard Mathematical Machine. A reference IMTU to a machine wired to work as a 100% true compatible to the Imperial Virtual Machine, rather than running it as a virtual machine.

fib = shortend from fiber

bis = vilani for "improved"

 

[ACK!!]

Originally posted by Aramis:
The following are guesses and only "Real" IMTU.

ISMM = Imperial Standard Mathematical Machine. A reference IMTU to a machine wired to work as a 100% true compatible to the Imperial Virtual Machine, rather than running it as a virtual machine.

fib = shortend from fiber

bis = vilani for "improved"

Cool I was going to use bis = basic improved system and fib = fiber input backend.

Thanks.

 

[ACK!!]

Originally posted by Aramis:
The following are guesses and only "Real" IMTU.

ISMM = Imperial Standard Mathematical Machine. A reference IMTU to a machine wired to work as a 100% true compatible to the Imperial Virtual Machine, rather than running it as a virtual machine.

fib = shortend from fiber

bis = vilani for "improved"

Cool I was going to use bis = basic improved system and fib = fiber input backend.

Thanks.