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From: rhorn@infinet.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: who does it... // State of the art today?
Message-ID: <977@infinet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 15:12:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: infinet.977
Posted: Sat Oct 17 15:12:00 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Oct-87 04:40:46 EDT
References: <4319@spool.wisc.edu> <3048@hoptoad.uucp> <21130@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Organization: Infinet, Inc.  North Andover, MA
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In article <21130@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> maddox@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Carl Greenberg (guest)) writes:
>  Imagine suntools where you just think at each
>window to come forward, close, et cetera..  (I'm still slobbering over the
>Sun, given that I usually work with 80286's..)  If anyone has any more recent
>data than this July, post!
>
You've never played ground support games in your local helicopter
gunship :-).  This is an old established technology.  Watch the
eyeballs with a laser to establish where you are looking and integrate
with the fire control system.  Want to zap something?  Look at at it
and twitch the correct finger.  Need to track in a missile?  Keep
looking at it and hold down the tracking trigger.  SQUID's would avoid
needing a trigger finger, but people are very comfortable with
triggers and finger control is a lot more reliable than SQUID
detection.

-- 
				Rob  Horn
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