Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:54:54 03/27/04
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On March 27, 2004 at 11:36:06, Steven Edwards wrote: >On March 27, 2004 at 10:24:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>On March 27, 2004 at 00:17:56, Steven Edwards wrote: > >>>Finally, the Best Chess Program Source Module Name That Can Appear In A Family >>>Website: >>> >>>"SuperBananaBeyond" from Chess 4.x > >>BananaSuperBeyond... > >You're right; I mis-remembered. I did recall the placement of the "Beyond" >correctly as BSB was modified version of the Beyond routine. > >From my CDC programming days, my recollection is that external symbols were >limited to seven characters in length, so it's not clear how the BSB symbol was >represented in CDC Compass. Maybe it was not an external? Local identifiers >had a longer limit (like forty characters)? I never saw the Chess 4.x Compass >source, only the Fortran for Chess 3.x. They were truncated. The only trick was to be unique in the first N chars, but I don;t remember wheter N was 6 or 8. I had the chess 4.7 source _years_ ago as Harry and I used it for sparring on a Cyber 176 Livermore Labs had...
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