Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3

[Shannon]

Will the end product of DMSI be 6G or will it remain as 5.5G?

I haven't decided yet, it will depend on the timing of other things. 3.4 is going to be final for the 3.x branch of DMSI regardless. It is at current very unlikely that I will be willing to go beyond 3.4, since I am pretty sick of working on DMSI at this point as it is.

I know ASC will be the first 6G program but I recall Shannon saying that 3.4 might be the first 6G sub yet all of this is contingent on many factors as Shannon said.

I’m frankly looking forward to the new focus fire subs Shannon makes

The first 6G will be ASC. The second will be the costom that is contracted for, which will be made available to the public after it is delivered. I believe it will be popular with a lot of you based on its design goal. The third may be DMSI 3.4, but it is more likely that 3.4 will be released in late 5.5G, since 6G will require that I finish achieving design spec with Beast, and then spend considerable time mining the technology modules out of it and translating them to work in the (very different) 5.5/6G skeleton script. I am using the 5.5/6G skeleton script as an opportunity to correct whatever mistakes were made during the development process of Beast, and optimize what I can otherwise, instead of just copy and paste.

If 3.4 is built in 5.5G and I make enough progress in the future with 6G, I may at some point build a 6G DMSI as the 4.0 release, but that's not exactly certain, since as I said, kind of sick of this program at this point. It is serving its purpose in developing the skeleton script, but it's also a taxing, frustrating, annoying and painful job at this point. If I wasn't shaving my head every other day, I'd probably have gone bald from pulling out my hair in response to DMSI by now.

That said... there is only do or not to. If I "not do" I fail. I am unwilling to fail, so I keep doing. But eventually whether or not I can or do achieve the goals of DMSI, I will have to stop working on it and develop 6G from Beast Final.

Worst case scenario, 6G comes out, and I can make DMSI better from it, and I build 4.0 eventually. But I will have to de-compress from the building of DMSI for a while after 3.4 if that is the case.