> That photo is not Belle, or at least not the Belle machine that the article
is about.
The photo shows the piece-sensing (by tuned resonant circuits)
chess board that Joe Condon built before he and Ken built the
harware version of Belle that reigned as world computer chess
champion for several years beginning in 1980 and became the
first machine to earn a master rating.
Doug
> From: "John P. Linderman"
> Brian interviewing Ken
Ah, thanks for that. I had intended going (since I've never met Ken), but
alas, my daughter's family had previously scheduled to visit that weekend, so
I couldn't go.
The 'grep' story was amusing, but historically, probably the most valuable
thing was the detail on the origins of B - DMR's paper on early C ("The
Development of the C Language") mentions the FORTRAN, but doesn't give the
detail on why that got canned, and B appeared instead.
Noel
Decades ago there was an interpreted C in an X10 or X11 app, I believe it
came from the UK. And maybe it wasn't X11, maybe it was Sunview?
Whatever it was the author didn't like the bundled scrollbars and had
their own custom made one.
You could set breakpoints like a debugger and then go look around at state.
Does anyone else remember that app and what it was called?
