Oh, I'm fully aware of why it's that way...I'm just surprised nobody's retconned a "reason" to have multiple computers on the ship yet!
I mean, our expectation now is that each device has distributed processing power, perhaps, but there's a lot of fascinating possibilities -- is the ship's computer a primary datastore? If not, then what is it? If so, then who decides when data's stored in the central system or not? What devices have local buffering? What if the system controls all the processing and the devices are essentially wireless dumb input devices?
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I mean, our expectation now is that each device has distributed processing power, perhaps, but there's a lot of fascinating possibilities -- is the ship's computer a primary datastore? If not, then what is it? If so, then who decides when data's stored in the central system or not? What devices have local buffering? What if the system controls all the processing and the devices are essentially wireless dumb input devices?