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Subject: Re: Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:27:50 03/25/02

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On March 25, 2002 at 17:00:53, William H Rogers wrote:

>If I remember correctly, he contributed to the "Belle" program. In its day, it
>was one of the strongest programs around. Everything in that day was played on
>"super computers", a lot less powerful than todays home PC's.
>Remember the Eniac, the worlds first, it had 1k of memory and 50,000 tubes or
>maybe it was over 100,000 tubes. It took up a whole city block.
>Bill

No.  Ken Thompson and Joe Condon did Belle.  Tony did his own program at
the university of alberta.  Last used name was "awit"...



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