Author: James T. Walker
Date: 13:51:40 01/14/05
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On January 14, 2005 at 15:19:42, Dan Andersson wrote: > The question is why the programs are different. Easiest explanation is that the >crystal clocks have degenerated. And it might easily result in different moves >over a game. Others are: > Something damaged the ROM. > An error when writing the ROM. > The program has a random function. > The program has a bug. F.ex.: It reads an unitialized memory location. >... > >MvH Dan Andersson I seem to rember that some of the old dedicated units did have a "random" function. For instance when two moves come out with equal scores they were chosen at random and not always the first one with the equal score. In some units this randomness was not just equal scores but some minor variation was allowed if the scores were very close. Jim
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