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From: gcsherwood@watcgl.UUCP (Geoffrey C. Sherwood)
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Subject: Re: The Transporter; why it can't do that
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Date: Sat, 6-Aug-83 10:40:51 EDT
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Why does the transporter need to store any data at all?
All it needs to do is scan and reconstruct the object/person.
If the two are done simultaneously, no storage at all would
be required.

Even to make them young, think of the transporter as a stream
editor.  You can edit an arbitrary-size file with one even
though you don't have the storage required to read it in.

Agreed though, it is too much magic.

	- geoff sherwood -
	- U. of Waterloo -