Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!RMann.HDSA@SYSTEM-M.PHOENIX.HONEYWELL From: RMann.HDSA@SYSTEM-M.PHOENIX.HONEYWELL@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Transporter; why it can't do that Message-ID: <4252@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 13:12:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.4252 Posted: Tue Aug 16 13:12:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Aug-83 10:07:00 EDT Lines: 22 From: Roger Mann From: Dan Hoey Subject: Re: The Transporter; why it can't do that But Star Dreck aside, I am very uncomfortable with Gary's last statement. Known ways of transmitting information, including transmission into and out of a storage medium, do involve copying. But I can't think of any reason why the ability to transmit and store information implies the ability to copy it. Any takers? Good point. I think that the ability to store data on a medium and retrieve it unchanged implies the ability to copy, and the ability to store data is a necessary but not sufficient condition to copy . After all, there are Write Only Memories (WOMs) that are used to store all those bits that shift off the end of shift registers that nobody wants to see. -Roger