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Subject: Re: Dr.Hyatt> ... about history

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:22:14 07/04/01

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On July 04, 2001 at 14:06:30, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On July 04, 2001 at 12:40:02, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On July 04, 2001 at 11:23:33, pete stein wrote:
>>
>>>... on history.
>>>Which is the oldest program that is currently still available on the net ?
>>>(and will still run on contempory hardware)
>>>And where to look for it ?
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>You can download Mychess (1979) by David Kittinger here:
>>http://www.gambitsoft.com/sharee.htm  Don't know about older ones, but that's
>>probably one of them if the date is correct.
>>
>>                                       Albert
>
>In the .doc it's write :
>
>"	    MYCHESS
>			     Chess Playing Program
>			       by Dave Kittinger
>
>
>			       MSDOS version 1.0
>				   May 1984
>
>"
>
>5 year latter than 1979 ...

The PC didn't exist in any decent sense until approximately then.  It's probably
a port of an older program.

bruce




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