OT: How far we have come
Looking thru some old magazine clippings, I found this ad (circa 1982)
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8080 & Z 80 Users
Natural Language is here!
Can your computer read and solve this problem by itself?
"On their vacation, Tom and Dick visited a farm. While there, they
noticed a pen containing chickens and pigs. Tom said there were 3 times
as many chickens as pigs. Dick said he counted 100 legs in the pen.
How many chickens were in the pen?"
With NLOS/1, it can!
NLOS/1 is a cassette-based system requiring a minimum of 12k, a
serial I/O board and any cassette interface. The system comes with
a fully documented seet of assembly language source listings. The cost
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CYBERMATE
Nazareth, PA
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Assuming this was not an outright scam (with the answer to this one
question pre-programmed) do you think that could have been done in
< 12k bytes 20 years ago? Or, for that matter, can it be done in 2004?
Irv
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