Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:24:31 03/07/01
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On March 07, 2001 at 18:17:46, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On March 07, 2001 at 09:52:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 07, 2001 at 03:51:15, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>I certainly appreciate the kind comments. But let me remind you that nearly >>30 years ago I was in your shoes. I had questions. And I had people like >>Ken Thompson, David Slate, Tom Truscott, Ed Kozdrowicki, Richard Greenblatt, >>Fred Schwartz (if anyone doesn't know the names of the programs those people >>worked on, feel free to ask and I'll respond). and others. They were _just_ >>as willing to help as some are today. >> >>It's just "more of the same" Or in my case "quid pro quo". > >Slate and Thompson have been around a little more recently than that, just so >people will know. Slate helped me quite a bit in 1995, and Thompson answered a >question I asked in r.g.c in 1994. > >bruce I would totally agree. Ken may be a bit harder to contact now that he has left AT&T and moved to the west coast. Dave used to visit ICC regularly as "rusty" but I haven't seen him in several years now. But the point remains valid. They were just as willing to answer beginner questions as I am today. Nothing new there at all... Computer chess would have been a worse place with- out them...
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