On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 10:36 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: > The term "web site" had no meaning prior to 1991. If we are talking about > "decades ago", it might have been an ftp or gopher site, or a BBS.
I think rexchess came along in the late 1980's, early 1990's. I think my first computer chess tournament was in 1986 and that was well before rexchess. Rexchess doesn't run on todays computers because they are too fast. One of the first things rexchess did was measure the speed of the computer, because it had a function to simulate a specified ELO playing strength. You could for example set it to play 1700 strength and it would adjust it's level accordingly. These ran on DOS machines. But that calculation involved a division, and we didn't expect computers to get so fast that the calculation would complete in less than 1/18 of a second, which I believe was the initial resolution of the timer we used. So one day I tried running it and it crashes. I don't have the original source code, but I think I could fix it with a debugger. The program was written in assembly language and the user interface was Turbo Pascal. - Don > Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! > > > > The download site was a web site. The original source of my program > > for free I don't remember, it might have been by software clubs where > > it was common to trade such things. Also, well before the web was > > popular there were still "bulletin boards", which you would connect to > > via a modem and had software download sections and so on. > > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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