[CT] Re: Once again, DKM predicts the future . . .

[Dan Moran]

The idea that computer programs execute in a memory space -- an
environment -- and that evolution would apply there was well as in the
"real world," is surely not mine. I'm not sure whose it is, but I'd be
shocked if it hadn't been described by any number of people prior to my
stories.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: continuing-time-bounces at ralf.org [mailto:continuing-time-
> bounces at ralf.org] On Behalf Of Scot Wilcoxon
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:10 PM
> To: Discussion of works/books of Daniel Keys Moran
> Subject: Re: [CT] Re: Once again, DKM predicts the future . . .
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:08, David Silberstein wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Victor Vescovo wrote:
> > >      Gladiator-style 'wars' select out weak programs
> > Not to rain on your parade or anything, but "Core Wars" has been
> > around since the mid-eighties.
> >    http://www.koth.org/
> >    http://mcraeclan.com/Graeme/CoreWars.htm
> 
> I'm sure I read about it in 1972.
> I did!  I diiid!  I did thee a dethcripthion!
> 
> In the 1984 Scientific American article that popularized "Core War":
> http://www.koth.org/info/akdewdney/First.htm
> "Darwin was described in Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 2,
> pages 93-96, 1972"
> 
> Yes, I was reading S:P&E at that time.
> And the game is mentioned as being around before that.
> 
> There was also a game on PLATO
> 
> (For that matter, I also saw that Apple computers were suffering from
> viruses which were transferred through floppy disks and BBS tranfers
in
> the early 1980s, long before most histories note the existence of
> computer viruses.) http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vtsladeapple.htm
> 
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