Multiple Computers

[Shadow Reaper]

So who has seen or heard why some ships have more than one computer? They seem to be (s)mall, (m)edium and (l)arge, okay. But why does the Lancer have two of them and why doe s the cat have 3 medium and one small? The Herald which supposedly has an EMP hardened computer just has the one.

 

[Printimus]

So who has seen or heard why some ships have more than one computer? They seem to be (s)mall, (m)edium and (l)arge, okay. But why does the Lancer have two of them and why doe s the cat have 3 medium and one small? The Herald which supposedly has an EMP hardened computer just has the one.

Fidelity

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

I'm guessing that one is going to be a targeting computer and other flight and other systems.

That or the flippin' matrix is buggered again.

 

[Phantomoftruth]

for the 'lancer, I'd expect one of them being for the rear turret. I don't believe this logic follows for the 'Cat.

 

[Naruw]

one is for pornography and the other is for work?

 

[supitza]

If technology is as trustworthy in the future as it is today (i'm looking at you, wireless printers), the extra computers are used as a backup.

 

[Stevetank]

The biggest computer is a mefium and those hold 4 blades like a server rack. Computers don't really get better as they get bigger, you just add more of them.

Idris has 6 medium for 24 blades.

 

[Bambooza]

Multiple reasons. One more computers allows for more blades. Second its possible to turn off some computers to allow for faster recovery after an EMP discharge.

 

[marcsand2]

Redundancy. When one big computer fails, everything depending on it will stop, 2 medium computers can take over tasks from each other, not all, but the most essential.

 

[Takeiteasy]

I don't like the computers as they are, too big, same as today yet somehow 900 years more advanced yet do the same as something of similar size can do today?

Just sounds too unrealistic to me, look at Nutanix boxes and other similar solutions, they can be really powerful, modular and still take up a rather small space, so surely that tech in 900 years will fit in a wristband or at least a Raspberry Pi.

 

[Injustice]

Maybe they use the extra computer for cryptocurrency mining.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Maybe they use the extra computer for cryptocurrency mining.

Unfortunately in 900 years time they'll have seen crypt for the bullshit it is.

1 Bitcoin is $15.000?

You may as well buy a bag of chips with a Triganic Pu from the Hitchhikers series:

"The Triganic Pu is a unit of galactic currency, with an exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu. This is simple enough, but, since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change."