"I would doubt they have a HUD considering they are most likely made up of some form of nanotechnological components. A T1000 doesnt have dedicated parts for "eyes" "

"I'm going to agree, and just like willwood, I'll agree with willwood that a HUD, on ANY of the Terminators, makes no sense whatsoever.

HUD's are used as a human to computer interface. As a way for a computer to quickly show a human relevant information. In this case though, there is no seperation between the person seeing the HUD and the computer itself. Why display "Unknown Cyborg" on an imaginary "screen" for example, when that information is stored in the Terminator's memory already so he KNOWS it's an Unknown Cyborg anyways.

It's really just a dramatic effect used to help the audience get into the "mind" of the Terminator. Just like when they play an actor's private thoughts as audio so that you can "hear" what they're thinking, even though we don't literally hear ourselves think in reality."

"Well, as someone who has actually programmed terminators..this is not completely true.

The T-600-1000 series all have dedicated subsytems that process distilled bits of information while interacting with other sub-parts of the system. The hearing module, for example, is responsible for parsing of language and teasing out different sound threads, presenting them to the central core for higher level analysis.

The reason for all this is to allow multitasking by multiple sub-processors so the main chip does not get "overloaded".

The 1000 is fundamentally the same way, except the generic nature of its structure allows different parts to come together to form the requisite sub-processing systems.

I hope that clears it up...I have been working on these little beasties for several years now."

"Well I am too, and perhaps I should give some background on the terminators construction.

Original develpment was done in factories seperated by long distances without any real ability to collaborate, excpet only vaguely, for long periods of time. Exact protocols neccesary for the subsytems to communicate were not worked out, so machines had to rely on a "lowest common denominator", the human lanmguage interface.

In other words, it would be as if you were doing object oriented programming with a team, but none of the team members were allowed to actually describe the input/output their various objects actually demanded from each other (the arguments).

I did .NET programming for several years before switiching to terminator development. Its a different world, and while we gain alot in terms of hardware, there is some loss of efficiency due to the construction circumstances. I can assure you it still is far superior as far as the end product is concerned, but you are right, if circumstances had permitted, we would have been able to construct more efficiently without the human language interface."

"Ok heres a question, what type of processing power do the terms CPU have, I remeber hearing the writers say the T888 has 3 processors, LOL probaly way more advanced than any intel QX series extreme edition processors, I wonder can they over clock thier CPU's? LOL, "My CPU is a neural net proceesor, a learning computer" - Uncle Bob terminator T2"