21 Sep
2020
21 Sep
'20
12:45 a.m.
Noel Chiappa wrote:
The MaHack sources seem to say it was made to run on the KL10 out of
timesharing, so I suppose the intent was to really have the full machine
dedicated to chess. I hope it did well!
it was AI
rather than MC. As I'm sure you know, AI had the Rubin
10-11 interface
Really? (I expect you're correct, mind.) I just remember one day MC
wasn't running as normal, and I was told it was because CHEOPS was in
some tournament, and MC had been taken offline so that it could focus
on the game. So I assumed CHEOPS was connected to MC (and had indeed
wondered why/how, when I wrote that message, with the Rubin interface
being on AI). It was pretty early, but I guess the CHAOSNET was
already running
then. My guess is that AI didn't do much but act as a communication
node between CHEOPS and MC, for that.
I think that's correct.