Author: Bo Persson
Date: 08:18:20 06/17/00
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On June 17, 2000 at 01:49:12, Dan Newman wrote: >On June 17, 2000 at 00:28:34, Oliver Roese wrote: > >>On June 16, 2000 at 16:11:15, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On June 16, 2000 at 15:02:31, Oliver Roese wrote: >>> >>>>I recall, i saw a printout of horrible quality in a book, some long time ago. >>>>So i know the code is available for the public. But it seems not to be found on >>>>the net somehere. >>>>Or am i wrong here? >>>> >>>>Oliver Roese >>> >>>Are you talking about Chess 4.5 or Chess 0.9? Chess 0.9 was in Byte magazine. >>> >>>bruce >> >>Maybe it was this. >>The printout i had in mind was in a book, featuring a loose collection of >>articles, related to programming games. >>The typeset was of very low quality. >>The autors appeared prominent, but i dont recall them. >>It was written in Pascal with a portion of assembler. >>I will never forget it, due to its strange type system: >>It defined new names for every type it used. Names consisted of 2 up to 3 >>letters. >>Apparently the first letter described a concept. The next letter described a >>subconcept of that and so on, like a catalog in a library. >>The first typename it defined was AA, the the next name AB and so on up to maybe >>AI. >>Then the game continued with BA, BB and so on. >>Furthermore it defined procedures and functions for almost _anything_ it did. >>Procedure accomplishing high level tasks, looked essentially all the same: >>A long file of procedure calls and assignements >>Since that i never saw anything comparable to that. >>So it is definitely interesting. >>If anyone would have heard of it, that would be fine. >> >>Oliver Roese > >That sounds a lot like the printout shown in an article in Computer Games I, >edited by David Levy--bad print quality, short variable names, etc.. It's in >Pascal too. The article is called "Creating a Chess Player", and it's by Frey >and Atkin. It says this in the text: > > "CHESS 0.5 is a program written in Pascal by Larry Atckin, who is > coauthor with David Slate of the world championship computer chess > program CHESS 4.6." > >So I guess it's not quite CHESS 4.5... There is also a BYTE article with (as >I recall) a similarly bad print quality (looks like a bad photocopy of an old >printout) which may also by by Atkin, but I don't remember that clearly, and >I can't get at my BYTEs very easily... > >-Dan. Yes, it appeared in BYTE over several issues at the end of 1978. It is also a good indication of what kind of printers were available at the time. :-) To me it looks like a normal quality printout from a high speed drum printer. Bo Persson bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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