Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:03:42 01/18/02
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On January 18, 2002 at 02:50:23, Tony Werten wrote: >On January 17, 2002 at 00:30:51, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On January 16, 2002 at 23:15:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 16, 2002 at 21:46:21, Russell Reagan wrote: >>> >>>>Is the Ken Thompson that created the endgame tablebases the same Ken Thompson >>>>that wrote the Unix operating system? >>>> >>>>Russell >>> >>> >>>Yes he is... >> >>Pretty talented guy. :) >> >>Hence the hook up to make the best chess computer of his time. > >Strikes me as funny that most people here know him for playing games and not >from something unimportant as writing unix. It is like knowing D. Knuth because he wrote something about alpha-beta, or M. Botvinnik is a guy who said something about computer chess sometime ago :-) Seriously, I understand the question, somebody might know Ken Thompson because of Unix but it is common name. Regards, Miguel > >Tony
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