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Subject: Re: Historical Question ... Did Pioner exist?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:50:43 04/03/01

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On April 03, 2001 at 18:46:16, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On April 03, 2001 at 11:27:00, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>I would bet money on it that if somebody were so inclined as to write that
>>address they might come up with something but maybe it is a wild goose chase.
>>I would write it if this were about "Pioneer". Somebody has to have it somewhere
>>this would be quite the task to convert it from Fortran(i swear Botvinnik said
>>they wrote it in this) to C++.
>
>If this is the famous Botvinnik "Pioneer" I'm not really sure it ever existed as
>a complete chessprogram. Perhaps it only existed as fragments of a chessprogram
>and a bunch of impossible ideas?!
>
>Torstein


I would characterize it as about 90% vaporware.  The rest was imagination.



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