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Re: [computer-go] Moyoman, a Go playing program



Don Dailey wrote:

Tell me,  what were things like way back there in the 70's?

My great-grandfather tells me they use wood burning computers back then and
1K was considered an enormous amount of memory.
He had a wood-burner?  Lucky guy!

We had to solve all of our computational problems using nothing but
bricks and shoeboxes.  A shoebox with a brick in it was a one, and
an empty shoebox was a zero.

Core dumps were really painful and exhausting.

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