Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:54:54 04/09/00
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On April 08, 2000 at 23:55:24, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >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!!! Dear Tim, which Asimov novel have you read lastly...? Fernando, from the Enterprise.
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