> The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> * What is a _reversible_ Life game? I suppose this is no Life game > >> at all, but some kind of zip/compress utility > > > > This is just Brin taking liberties with the narrative. > > To make Life reversible would require enough changes to > > the system that it wouldn't be recognizeable as Life > > anymore. > > > Oh, but what is called a "reversible game" can't be > a reversible game, because at the end there is an > empty screen - so I thought that maybe it was just > a fancy nickname to some kind of zip. The way I read it the _rules_ for that particular version of life allowed it to be reversible. Zip files are compressed files. I think you mean some kind of database archive.
