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From: mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto)
Subject: Re: Answers to Trivia Quiz II
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:53:31 GMT


dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
 
> subrahma@usc.edu (Sudhakar Subrahmanyam) writes:
>> 4. Longest palindrome in the English language : Redivider
 
> I emailed to Sudhakar about this, but he chose to ignore it.
 
> I'll put this in the form of a challenge:  find a dictionary that has
> "redivider" in it.  It must be a complete word in boldface type (either
> a headword or a run-in entry), not just derived from two or three
> separate entries.  This is a real challenge, since I don't know of any
> such dictionary.  I've looked in quite a few and can't find it.  I'd be
> happy to hear of one that has it.
 
It is a ludicrous challenge.  Sudhakar asked for palindromes in the English
language -- not those that are in dictionaries.
 
Many dictionaries list prefixes and suffixes with rules about how
to use them, without listing every valid use.  "Divider" is in
Webster's Ninth (one who divides), as well as in the OED.
 
"Re-" is listed as a valid prefix, with rules about how it can be used.
"Redivide" is also listed in Webster's and in the OED, though not in
the American Heritage.  The American Heritage and the OED make a point
of saying that they do NOT list all of the valid words which can be made
by adding a prefix of "re."  While "Redivider" might not be in these
dictionaries, it is certainly a valid English word.
 
> Find two longer palindromes that are in English language dictionaries.
> And, yes, I do know of two.
 
A counter-example will go a lot further in showing that Sudhakar's
example is not the longest palindromic word than trying to convince us
that it is not a valid word.
 
Mark

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: parson@coulomb.pcc.oz.au (Brenda Parsons - x2403)
Subject: Re: THE CANADIAN FLAG
Organization: Prospect Electricity
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:08:06 GMT

Dan Tilque (dant@techbook.com) wrote:
: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
: >
: >Why were Red & White chosen as the colours for the Canadian Flag back
: >in '65?
: 
: This was told to me by someone on the net (I think it was Henry Spencer,
: but could be mistaken).
: 
: When they were choosing a flag, the favorite entry was red, white, and
: blue.  However, whoever was doing the final decision didn't want
: another r,w,b flag.  Perhaps they wanted to emphasize independence from
: the UK and US or maybe they thought there were too many such already in
: use.  Whatever the reason, they changed it just red and white.  (I'm
: not sure who "they" were.)
: 
I remember vaguely from my days in the Guide Guides/Brownies, that
the two broad red borders were supposed to symbolize the wide
expanse between the two oceans (or from sea to sea).  The red was
a symbol of freedom or something like that, and the white was either
purity or snow :-). 

It's probably all written up in the GG/Brownie/Scout/Cub handbook
somewhere.
-- 
% Brenda Parsons                  
% Currently at Prospect Electricity
% 10 Smith Street, Parramatta 2150, Australia
% +61 2 635 0300              e-mail:   parson@coulomb.pcc.oz.au
From: lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Looking for Lit Quiz
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:29:02 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Hi folks.

I'm looking for the answers to the Lit Quiz that was posted last month. 
When I saved the quiz, I deleted the due date, so I don't know if it should
even have been posted yet.  But I have had no response to the letters that
I have written to the creator of the quiz.  If anyone knows anything about
this, please drop me a line (I want to know how well I did).

						- Chuck 

PS:  The quiz-master's id is malloyd@unix1.tcd.ie, better known as
     'The Revenge of the Raving Chutney Ferret'.

 _______________________________________ 
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| "--whether you are quiet and ALIVE or | 'I don't believe you.' 
| quiet and DEAD makes no difference to | 'I've got a straw right here PAL! 
| Cerebus."                             |  You want a demonstration?!'
|       - Cerebus the Aardvark          |                   - The Tick 
|_______________________________________| Chuck Turner -> lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes)
Subject: Candy Bars: Klein's Lunch Bar
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:10:49 GMT

This is a very obscure topic, but some fellow baby-boomer might be able to 
help! Does anyone remember a great candy bar called Klein's lunch bar? It was 
basically a chocolate bar that had nuts and raisins in it. It cost some odd 
price like 3 cents. This was way back in the olden days, when candy bars were 
only 5 cents and they were as big as the 50 or 60 centers now. Nobody I know 
around here can remember this thing. Does anyone out there?  We used to get 
lots of these on Halloween night.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Subject: Re: THE CANADIAN FLAG
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:51:36 GMT

ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
>
>Why were Red & White chosen as the colours for the Canadian Flag back
>in '65?

This was told to me by someone on the net (I think it was Henry Spencer,
but could be mistaken).

When they were choosing a flag, the favorite entry was red, white, and
blue.  However, whoever was doing the final decision didn't want
another r,w,b flag.  Perhaps they wanted to emphasize independence from
the UK and US or maybe they thought there were too many such already in
use.  Whatever the reason, they changed it just red and white.  (I'm
not sure who "they" were.)

Of course, if they really wanted to emphasize independence, they should
have made it cyan, black and yellow...

---
Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com
From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Movie Quote Quiz Part II
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:37:32 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

Movie Quote Quiz Part II

- Answers will be posted Dec. 1,1992
- No particular order.
- All replies should include the quotes and I will reply as to which answers
are incorrect.
- Answers need only contain Movie Title.


1. " Did you ever meet anyone you didn't kill?"
	" I haven't killed you yet."

2. " In my club if a girl doesn't wear mink she doesn't wear nothing."
	" I look good both ways."

3. " That's Jesus, and that's his momma."
	"That's Jesus' momma?"

4. " I shot the clerk? "

5. " I thought someone in this house should be having sex with something that
	doesn't require batteries."

6. " All I can say is I wish I had a dime for every dime I have."

7. " Looks just like Skinny-n-Sweet I mean except for the skull and crossbones
	on the box."

8. " Russians don't kill their children."

9. " One thing I never could stomach about Santa Carla, all the damn Vampires."

10. "My wife left me."
	"Mine too, When di yours leave."
    "October."
	"Really mine too. What is it about October."
    "I don't know all the pressure about Halloween you neve know what to go 
    as."
From: hammond@css.itd.umich.edu (Steve Hammond)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz Part II
Date: 22 Nov 1992 21:54:10 GMT
Organization: U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu
Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu


Gee, Thanks guys, you really have the idea of a quiz down.  Just shout out
The answers as soon as you know them.  Too bad you werent in my calculus
Class, I could have really used it then
-- 
Steve Hammond                                               hammond@umich.edu
   While you were fooling around with Navotny, I was learning how to take 
   advantage in here. In this world you're nothing Alex, and me, I'm god.
From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz Part II
Date: 22 Nov 92 09:21:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <21NOV199218394637@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu>, cvadsavi@vmsa.is.csupomona
.edu (Carl R. Knecht) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.113733.4161@memstvx1.memst.edu>, mcsweinberg@memstvx1.mem
st.edu writes...
>>Movie Quote Quiz Part II
>>
>>- Answers will be posted Dec. 1,1992
>>- No particular order.
>>- All replies should include the quotes and I will reply as to which answers
>>are incorrect.
>>- Answers need only contain Movie Title.
>>
>>
>>1. " Did you ever meet anyone you didn't kill?"
>>      " I haven't killed you yet."
>
>Lethal Weapon, probably part 2.....
>
>>
>>2. " In my club if a girl doesn't wear mink she doesn't wear nothing."
>>      " I look good both ways."
>
>Don't know, but sounds real interesting!!  O:-)
>
>>4. " I shot the clerk? "
>
>Thelma and Louise????
No, My cousin Vinny
>

>>
>>5. " I thought someone in this house should be having sex with something that
>>      doesn't require batteries."
>
>AAARGGHH!!!!  I know this one, but can't remember it!!!!!!
To refresh, Starts with P, Pa, Parent, Parenth, rhymes with Parentgood,
Parenthood
>
>>9. " One thing I never could stomach about Santa Carla, all the damn Vampires.
"
>
>The Lost Boys
Yup
>

>And yes, these are all guesses....
>
>yub yub, Carl
>
-- 
MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN
758-0207
MLSA

"I really do appreciate the fact you're sitting here, you're voice sounds so
wonderful but your face don't look too clear so barmaid bring a pitcher,
another round of brew, why don't we get drunk and screw?"- J. Buffett
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: rwarren@vax2.concordia.ca (Rosemary A. Warren -- Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Subject: Re: THE CANADIAN FLAG
Summary: Quebec's colors  
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Quebec, color
Organization: Concordia University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:50:00 GMT

In article <BxzuHM.FAE.1@cs.cmu.edu>, clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU writes...
>In article <1992Nov19.120216.16821@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
> 
>   >>>> Why were Red & White chosen as the colours for the Canadian Flag back
>   >>>> in '65?
> 
>   Further research -- in the form of my friend Owen Leibman -- has pointed
>   me to the actual answer.  Red and white are Canada's official colors!
> 
>Hmmm.  Both the Ontario and Quebec coat-of-arms also feature the
>three-leaf symbol.  I wonder if they have official colours as well?

based on the provincial flag and various political paraphernalia, the 
official Quebec colors are royal blue and white.

"All the colors of the world should be
 Lovin' each other whole-heartedly ..."
	The Jacksons, "Can You Feel It?"

Rosemary Warren		rwarren@topaz.concordia.ca
Montreal's Favorite Jacksonmaniac !!!
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Zed's Trivia Contest, Part Two
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:06:35 GMT
 <By6Cw2.MrI@cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

Sorry about question #7 -- I should have specified that I was talking
about the contiguous 48 states.

But did you have to quote my entire posting?  :-)

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
was 'Russian Vodka'."
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Jessica Raine)
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz Part II
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:04:45 GMT

oops, that ought'a be PARENTHOOD.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: 880126b@dragon.acadiau.ca (Chris Butler)
Subject: Re: Answers to Trivia Quiz II
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:19:46 GMT

st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Andrew Weiskopf) writes:

>In article <Bxwq43.67u@techbook.com>, dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
>>I'll put this in the form of a challenge:  find a dictionary that has
>>"redivider" in it.  It must be a complete word in boldface type (either
>>a headword or a run-in entry), not just derived from two or three
>>separate entries.
>>
>>---
>>Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com

I read somewhere that the longest english palindrome was:
evitative
This matches the length of 'redivider', and it's in the dictionary.

-Chris

-- 
Chris Butler                                   chris.butler@dragon.acadiau.ca
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
      "Copywight 1992 Elmer J. Fudd Entewpwises - All Wights Wesewved."
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Sonic Boom 1.30 [X-Hill Source]
Organization: Too many
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 18:11:10 GMT

Want to see a very painful death against Corona?  watch this :-)
More like suicide, really, but there's not much I can do about it.

;redcode-x
;name Sonic Boom 1.30
;author Eric J. Schwertfeger
;strategy Two SPL bombing carpet bombers going opposite
;strategy Directions, with a monitor that relaunches carpet
;strategy bombers whenever both die.
;strategy v 1.3X Going back to original bombing pattern, hence return
;strategy        to 1.XX numbers.
WAIT	EQU	(568)
FSTEP	EQU	(16*12)
RSTEP	EQU	(-16*12)
RCSRC	DAT	0,RBDST+(RSTEP)+1
RSTART	MOV	RCSRC,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RBDST-RSTEP,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RCSRC,<(RBDST-RSTEP)	; this pass
	MOV	RCSRC,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RCSRC,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
	MOV	RCSRC,<(RBDST-RSTEP)
RMOVE	MOV	<(RCSRC-RSTEP),<(RCDST-RSTEP)
RCDST	JMP	RSTART+RSTEP,RBDST+(RSTEP*2)+1
RBDST	SPL	0,#RSTART-240
SHOOT	SPL	FLAUNCH
	SPL	RLAUNCH
	MOV	#(WAIT/3),DELAY
WATCH	JMN	DIE,RSTART-150
	JMN	DIE,FBDST+150
DELAY	DJN	WATCH,#DELAY
	JMP	SHOOT
FLAUNCH MOV     #FCDST+2+FSTEP-FCSRC,FCSRC-FSTEP
        MOV     #2+(FSTEP*2),FCDST-FSTEP
        MOV     #FCDST+2+FSTEP-FCSRC,FCSRC
        MOV     #2+(FSTEP*2),FCDST
	MOV	#241,FBDST
	SPL	1
	SPL	1
	SPL	1
	SPL	1
	JMP	FMOVE
DIE	DAT	0,0
LAUNCH  SPL     DLAUNCH
        DJN     0,#(32*2+4)
        MOV     DIE,DSTART+(32*DSKIP)
        JMP     SHOOT
DSKIP   EQU     (247)
DLAUNCH MOV     DSRC,DSRC-DSKIP
        MOV     DDEST,DDEST-DSKIP
        SPL     1
        MOV     -1,0
        JMP     DSTART
DSRC    DAT     DDEST+1+DSKIP
DSTART  MOV     <DSRC-DSKIP,<DDEST-DSKIP
DDEST   JMP     DSTART+DSKIP,#1+(DSKIP*2)
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
	DAT	0,0
RLAUNCH MOV     #RCDST+2+RSTEP-RCSRC,RCSRC-RSTEP
        MOV     #2+(RSTEP*2),RCDST-RSTEP
        MOV     #RCDST+2+RSTEP-RCSRC,RCSRC
        MOV     #2+(RSTEP*2),RCDST
	MOV	#-254,RBDST
	SPL	1
	SPL	1
	SPL	1
	SPL	1
	JMP	RMOVE
FCSRC	DAT	0,FBDST+(FSTEP)+1
FSTART	MOV	FCSRC,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FBDST-FSTEP,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FCSRC,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FCSRC,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FCSRC,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
	MOV	FCSRC,>(FBDST-FSTEP)
FMOVE	MOV	<(FCSRC-FSTEP),<(FCDST-FSTEP)
FCDST	JMP	FSTART+FSTEP,FBDST+(FSTEP*2)+1
FBDST	SPL	0,#241
	END	LAUNCH

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 13:28:38 MST
From: <AZNXS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Re: Corewars on a PC
Distribution: world

I have the same problem with new-dispose (Mars88 is in Pascal) and I think
the solution is not to use new-dispose.
I'm not absolutely sure about the heap management routines, but I think It
would be faster to create a list of memory chunks (size 2*8000) and then
use this list instead of new and dispose.
So we need 2*8000 new at the begining of the program and 2*8000 dispose at
the end of the program, but we need to do it just once in. In the next battle
the free-list already exists.
I'm not sure if it's really faster, but I'd like to try it out so please
send me a note if you think it's nonsense.

Nandor.
From: @prism.cs.orst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Incomplete login name
Date: 19 Nov 92 07:36:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1efg5uINNaka
Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu

Notice the missing/incomplete login name of my two previous postings? This
was due to the system. If anyone would reply them, please direct the mail to
wangsawm@prism.cs.orst.edu

--- W. Mintardjo
From: te1349@newark.njit.edu (Leafweir)
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Help
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:01:44 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Hiyas,

I found this corewar yesterday playing with ftp. I had heard of it
before but had never seen it. It is rather interesting and I am trying
to learn more about redcode. So far I have tried combining imp and dwarf
I got a program good at surviving but not good at killing. I wanted it
to go forward as a normal imp but also split and throw dat bombs behind
me as I go forward. Please explain to me how to code this stuff. I have
no experience in assembly. What follows is the program that I sort of
put together.

;redcode
;name orc
;author Timothy Echeandia
;strategy Well I am rather new to corewar so I tried combining imp
;and dwarf. You get a more deadly imp an thereby the name orc. I am
;running corewars the X11 version and it survived against xtc. I think
;that this warrior more survives and ties than kills off. Right now
;killing off is giving me problems.

orc	mov	orc,	orc+1
bomb    dat     #0,     #0
bomber  add     #-4,    bomb
	mov     bomb,   @bomb
	jmp     bomber
	end	orc
From: sah@castle.ed.ac.uk (Juggler)
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Paper code please!
Summary: Can I have some?
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:30:55 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Black Star

I started subscribing to this group at the beginning of the summer (my
work's been going downhill ever since :-(), around the time when flash
paper,note paper, etc were at their prime. Unfortunately, I missed the
code for them, (if code was posted), and I wondered if someone could
post/ mail them - or other similar ones - to me, so that I can compare
them with my own attempts, and (I hope) be inspired to great things... 
	Cheers,
		Si.
		xxx


-- 
S.A.Hovell,Dept. Electrical Engineering,University of Edinburgh,U.K.
(+31) 650-5655	 			          (Juggler@ed.ac.uk) 
-----					         	       -----
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Impression v3
From: fedimit@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il (Dan Nabutovsky)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:47:02 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center

Hi all,
   This is my program Impression v3. As you can see, the main
principles of imp-writing are:
   - Make spiral not ring
   - One Ring is the best architecture
   - Dwarf must get most of CPU time.
And, most important:
   - Don't send your program to pdk. This schmuck will
     make minor changes, send it to Koth under his name,
     and then he'll blame you in copycatting.

;redcode
;name Impression v3
;kill P. Kline for plagiate
;author Dan Nabutovsky
;strategy 2 imp spirals + self-splitting dwarf

d EQU 2667
i EQU imp-2000
imp: mov 0,d

start: mov imp, i
spl 32
spl 16
spl 8
spl 4
spl 2
jmp i+d*0
jmp i+d*1
spl 2
jmp i+d*2
jmp i+d*3
spl 4
spl 2
jmp i+d*4
jmp i+d*5
spl 2
jmp i+d*6
jmp i+d*7
spl 8
spl 4
spl 2
jmp i+d*8
jmp i+d*0
spl 2
jmp i+d*1
jmp i+d*2
spl 4
spl 2
jmp i+d*3
jmp i+d*4
spl 2
jmp i+d*5
jmp i+d*6
spl 16
spl 8
spl 4
spl 2
jmp i+d*7
jmp i+d*8
spl 2
spl dwarf
spl dwarf
spl dwarf

	DAT #0
	DAT #0
	DAT #0
	DAT #0
	DAT #0
	DAT #0
	DAT #0

inc      dat #-2045,#2045
dwarf    spl 0,100
stone    mov <cnt+102-300,<cnt+100
	 add inc,stone
cnt      djn stone,<-3799


END start
From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: redcode compiler/interpreter/whatever
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:36:39 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

Where can I get the latest redcode whatever? I need the program.

For DOS.

--  "Xyzzy T. Plugh"                               mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
                     Amateur radio callsign pending
        Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old networks wizard.

"Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: durham@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
Subject: Preliminary EBS Qualifying Tournament Results
Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:49:47 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I am continuing to run rounds to make certain that the EBS tournament
is fair, but at this time it looks as if the following programs will
qualify for the annual ICWS tournament (in alphabetical order):

Anti-body by Nandor Sieben
Griffin 2 by Anders Ivner
Impressive by Dan Nabutovsky
Imprimis by P. Kline
Leprechaun 1b by Anders Ivner
Plasma by Wayne Sheppard
Roaches by Steven Morrell
Return of the Living Dead 2.2 by Nandor Sieben
Sauron by Steven Morrell
Twimp by Monika Keindl


The following programs will probably NOT qualify:

Appleseed Five++ by Jack Twilley
Sucker 5b by Stefan Strack
Tiny by Wayne Sheppard


Mark A. Durham
durham@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: jtf9s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ()
Subject: Re: Impression v3
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:45:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.064702.10776@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> fedimit@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il (Dan Nabutovsky) writes:
>Hi all,
>   This is my program Impression v3. As you can see, the main
>principles of imp-writing are:
	...[stuff deleted]...
>And, most important:
>   - Don't send your program to pdk. This schmuck will
>     make minor changes, send it to Koth under his name,
>     and then he'll blame you in copycatting.

Harsh, harsh, harsh.  Corewar is a rough game, it appears.  Jim, here,
was thinking about trying it out; after this posting, however, it
seems that he may not be up to the task.  Perhaps a little weight-lifting
first, eh?

Jim

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 12:36:39 MST
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu (Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS)
Subject: Definition Help!
Organization: Brigham Young University

Could someone briefly describe a gate, spiral and a ring?

Thanks

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Douglas R. Nebeker              Internet: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: t-jcisek@microsoft.com (Julius Cisek)
Subject: Re: The shmuck responds
Date: 20 Nov 92 01:25:12 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


I don't think anyone really cares.  Why don't you guys take it back to
private e-mail.  You're both schumcks for handling yourselves this way.
No one person can claim their piece of code for themselves, I'd thought
you would all know this by now.  I wrote something like the imp ring a
long time ago and even mentioned it here, but are you going to give ME
credit for it?  And could I care less?

I think one of the nice things about corewar was that it is something like
an evolutionary process with the programmers more as stimuli for the
continuing of the corewar warrior evolution nothing more.

Besides it's extremely easy to re-write someone else's program without
knowing what the code looks like, even unintentionally.  I developed
PitTrap completely on my own but it turned out that scissors88 by Scott
Nelson had already been doing basically the same thing long before.

So chill out and enjoy the games...  (Wish I could say the same for
myself, but I've been so busy at work that I've had no real time to spend
on the game in months, c'est la vie...)

						Jules

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From: wang@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Thomas Wang)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:08:48 GMT
Subject: Question from an oldtimer
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino