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Subject: Re: Mirage is worth a game or two...or more

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 09:06:03 09/15/98

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On September 15, 1998 at 06:05:36, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>
>Will, hello!  Regarding Rookie, the program that can be downloaded at my site, I
>have to say that it is a program by Andrew Dados whose later versions all appear
>under the name of Misssilicon -- both on FICS and on ICC.  It just so happened
>that Andrew came up with a name for his baby program that coincided with Marcel
>van Kervinck's program Rookie.  However, Marcel had christened his program
>Rookie apparently even before Misssilicon was finished... That is why Andrew
>never publicly uses the name that rightly belongs to Rookie, the program by
>Marcel van Kervinck... But it would be downright silly to change the name of the
>program that Andrew came up with quite unaware of there already being another
>Rookie. Actually Andrew is trying to think of a fitting name for Misssilicon
>now... I hope that this little confusion is cleared now, and hope that Blik's
>(alias Rookie) fame will not be tainted.
>


Okay, sorry for the mixup.



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