Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 02:40:44 12/10/00
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On December 09, 2000 at 15:19:12, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 08, 2000 at 23:13:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 07, 2000 at 11:59:33, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>> >>>Junior was before Deep blue Junior so IBM started borrowing from a "famous >>>name". >>> >>>They could know that there is a name Junior for a chess program and they could >>>use another name if they wanted to do it. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >>I disagree with this line of reasoning. And I have explained why before. >> >>First, in 1984 a program by the name of "Cray Blitz Junior" was entered >>in the US Open speed chess championship. Why "junior"? Because we normally >>ran on a multiple-CPU Cray, but for that event we used a "cheapo cray" that >>had much slower memory and only one cpu. We wanted to differentiate between >>the "real" cray blitz and this much slower machine version. >> >>Second, in 1978 Ken Thompson showed up in Washington DC with a program that >>was called both "baby belle" and "belle junior"... it was much slower than >>the 5K noder per second real belle program, but was built into an electronic >>chess board he brought along. >> >>"junior" has _always_ been something added to a name to indicate "smaller" >>or "weaker". "George Foreman junior" for his small version of the cooker >>he sells. That is common. > > > >Argh... I can't help... > >So your next president is probably going to be some smaller or weaker version >of... :) > >Uff... Maybe not the best way to enter the third millennium... :) > >Sorry... :) > > > > Christophe :) > <GROAN>
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