Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 20:55:24 04/08/00
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On April 08, 2000 at 17:29:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Tim: >If you ever find the grave of Boris, maybe you would like to write this in his >tombstone: >I was made by Chafitz Inc. of Rovkville, Maryland. >David Slate and Larry Atkins were hired to help writting my source code. >I runned in a F8 microprocessor and I had 2,5 Kb ROM and used just 1/4 Kb for >RAM. >Even mighty Fritz 6 will lay as me in a grave, some day. >And now go in Peace. Fernando, I took Boris apart once and marvelled at that 256 Byte RAM chip. 2.5 KByte of ROM was one tiny program especially when you consider that 10% was in "smart ass" scrolling statements. Slate and Atkins were geniuses to get that much bang out of such small and slow programs. I felt real important having my own portable chess computer back then. Now it would be considered a baby toy. Well I guess that I could be the first on my block to buy a Toyota gas-electric Prius. I don't think that 98 HP will give me more than 1 G of acceleration but then I could brag about 25 Kilometer per Liter gas mileage (66 MPG). Maybe I will wait for the GM SUV gas-electric that gets 45 MPG. Ahh, .....Progress.. Tim Frohlick PS Your idea about the real voice telecommunication is good but I will wait until we get 100 GByte/sec chromophore optical processor lines. Yowzer!!!
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