Whoever had made this had been one hellacious coder. The whole thing was written in some prehistoric language called “C” and then compiled. The source code was gone and he’d had to reconstruct the whole thing by trial and error. And now he was down to it. He reread the lines picturing what each would do to the routing information of clustered packets. Picturing a linear flow didn’t help. It had taken him weeks of conjecture and testing before he’d figured out it was three-dimensional. The data could jostle, bypass, even arrive in the wrong order and be put back together. But there was nothing to keep them from running into one another.
There had to be something else. Was it four-dimensional? What if a data packet could run backwards if there was a problem of some sort only to resurface an
