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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 202
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#1, RE: Computers are cool!
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-05-01 at 01:48 AM
In response to message #0
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>"An information engine powerful enough to sort useful patterns out of
>the news traffic of an entire galaxy?" said Prime. "Even Cybertron
>doesn't have a system as powerful as that."
>

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>Gosh, something like that would have to be the size of a planet.
>Hmm... Why does that sound familiar. Actually, joking/sarcasm aside,
>would you mind if I ask just how powerful a computer we're talking
>here?

Um... very. It's a big computer. Really big. Very, very big indeed.

I can't do much better than that; we're getting back to that same problem as with the Dyson sphere fold inhibitors. There's a reason I've been trying to avoid going into detail about the tech in UF...

--G.
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