Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 12:22:37 07/21/05
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On July 21, 2005 at 11:43:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 20, 2005 at 23:39:05, Steven Edwards wrote: >>How about a Cray T3E-1200E? >Message passing box. T3's have been around for 20 years now, but they have >always been distributed memory vs shared memory. Cray Blitz isn't compatible. > >Not to mention the fact that source code (excepting a couple of print-outs) does >not exist today... :) Years ago I corresponded with Jim Gillogly and asked him if he had any copies of the source to his Tech chess program. As I recall, he replied that all that was left were a few pdp10 mini tapes for which he had no machine available for access. I once had a look at State and Atkin's Chess 3.0 source nearly thirty years ago. Written in the ghastly CDC dialect of Fortran, its authors' comments about its unreadability were not exaggerated. It's a shame that all or nearly all of the sources of chess programs from the classic period are irretrievably lost to us.
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