Tales of the Vuduri: Year One, page 73
So there you have it. A new computer, like OMCOM, comes pre-built. It also has a code-generation module as demonstrated by OMCOM in Rome's Revolution and does not require human intervention. My father managed a stable of human programmers for much of his career. It was always his claim that someday, somebody would write a program that could generate programs and then he wouldn't need programmers any more.
Well, my Dad's vision of this brave new world is realized in the 35th century. The only sad thing is the core routines to perform this act were created by MASAL. If you've read the books, you'd know that was not a good thing. It will come back to haunt them some day. This will become abundantly clear in The Milk Run starring Aason Bierak which should be available in the spring.
Entry 1-348: December 8, 2013
Ah, Capella!
While the events that occur in Rome's Revolution center around the disappearance of Winfall (first observed in 3418 AD), it was the dimming of Capella in the year 3420 AD that caused the Overmind to dispatch a research team to Tabit in the first place. Why? First a word of explanation.
Capella is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga. You will recall from a previous post, I mentioned that Winfall was the made-up name for Lambda Aurigae which is in the same constellation as Capella.
