(TFT) Re: Re: Traveller Computers

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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> I
don't think all the fancy holographic stuff was mentioned until later
editions.
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Nope. From the very beginning Traveller computers could track hyperspace
jump coordinates, trace an unlimited number of missile coordinates and
automatically control life-support and communciations. We can't even get a
single Space Shuttle computer to coordinate a landing! 

I think were everyone got hung up was in the Traveller combat systems
requirement that you "swap" out which program is currently running, giving
the mistaken impression that Traveller's computers dont multitask. But of
course, that was never implied with respect to any programs except the
combat programs (whether for storage capability or complexity). 

Michael 
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