As a professional software engineer I have no trouble believing that the extra power and cooling systems would take more space. Especially since you can’t really “just vent the heat to vacuum” all the time.
If you imagine the TL 10+ stuff as a server room calculating with software made by IBM and oracle then *of course* it sucks.
It’s only mild retro-futurism to imagine that the hardest thing about software in traveller is controlling the computers heat level and keeping it powered. Especially if you assume that even high TL systems are built to be serviced at tl 6-9
I'll be addressing some of those points in the computers chapter. It's shocking how much room high-reliability electronics can take up, even in this day and age
Swapping time for processing power seems like it could be easily handled as an Electronics roll or similar. It's not the default operation, but you can make it work. Given that computing ability appears to scale linearly (implausible as it may be), [Processing Needed]/[Processing Used] should work.
As a professional software engineer I have no trouble believing that the extra power and cooling systems would take more space. Especially since you can’t really “just vent the heat to vacuum” all the time.
If you imagine the TL 10+ stuff as a server room calculating with software made by IBM and oracle then *of course* it sucks.
It’s only mild retro-futurism to imagine that the hardest thing about software in traveller is controlling the computers heat level and keeping it powered. Especially if you assume that even high TL systems are built to be serviced at tl 6-9
I'll be addressing some of those points in the computers chapter. It's shocking how much room high-reliability electronics can take up, even in this day and age
This is a great point. Oh and separate cleanable air filters too. Otherwise the dander from the ships cat builds up in the chassis...
Autism pleasing magnetic air filters and LEDs occupy 90% of any decent captains computer room
Swapping time for processing power seems like it could be easily handled as an Electronics roll or similar. It's not the default operation, but you can make it work. Given that computing ability appears to scale linearly (implausible as it may be), [Processing Needed]/[Processing Used] should work.