Chronology of what was authored in the year 2001
There is a string of murders. First one young woman was killed after leaving Leather Fetish Night at a particular club. A few days later, another woman is killed in the park. The police statement reveals that it's definitely the same killer. There were no witnesses.
Media collectively label killings as The Fetish Murders.
A coworker catches Joe watching streaming video of the news report from his cubicle. Startled and embarrassed, tugging at his shirt collar he stands, and the two head off to a meeting. On the way out, he resets his necktie back to its proper position.
That night, Joe is very restless. It's difficult getting to sleep. He feels himself walking along a cobblestone path at twilight. A blink and it's like his perspective is elevated, almost hovering at twice his normal height. There's a woman in fancy dress walking now. There's a startling alarm bell; instantly, the woman turns as if terror-struck.
Joe shoots out of bed, eyes bloodshot, heart pounding. He reaches for his alarm clock. It's one of those obnoxious wind-up bell types.
This is a contemporary look at the design of MOSES, the Meta Operating System and Entity Shell from the early 1990's. With this, the presentation within the older documents becomes unnecessary since those emphasized qualities taken for granted now but unique at the time.
The system's architecture is described from a modern perspective using varying degrees of computer science concepts.
Just the highlights of the system are presented without a comprehensive explanation of the design. Key details are stated when appropriate to illustrate uniqueness.
Most subsections include a brief statement putting that portion into context of the times— past and present.
In 1990, few knew what the term virtual reality meant let alone what the letters VR represented.
Even in the twenty-first century, most people mistakenly believe this to be just games.
The aim was to progress technology, ultimately making computers easier to use.
These designs included all the trimmings that by the end of the 1990's became obvious to any large scale project: distributed system, shared memory, platform independent programming languages for customization, extensible protocols, network transparency for applications, fault-tolerance, etc.
Some unique characteristics included things still uncommon in the early twenty-first century: user-centric view of data, arbitrary information engine (handles data beyond just 3D or even n-Dimensional) and a programmable protocol for on-the-fly optimizations, among many other things.
Snow is caked on the windshield, and headlights reflect on the windshield as we see a thirty-something couple in a trendy sport-utility truck. Janine is in the passenger seat with her eyes close, relaxed, drifting close to sleep. A loud bang followed by severe shaking, their truck crashes. She doesn't even have time to scream.
As she's discharged from the emergency room, she has a neck-brace, a black eye, and an arm in a sling.
A nurse asks some routine questions: Were alcohol or drugs consumed prior to the accident? (no) Are you family? (engaged) Well, we'll have to contact his family for most of this, but perhaps you can help now: Know of any previously known medical conditions? (no, none) Is his identification info correct? (yes)
The nurse notices something on the form but keeps asking questions: Is his... medical insurance... valid? (should be)
The woman doesn't really notice the particular, almost peculiar nature of the questions: Did he grow up in this area? (yes) Oh, he must have gone to the local high school then? (yes, i think so)