Notices by Bill Ricker (n1vux@mastodon.radio)

@cstross @mattblaze
right, those inside CS understand that for 50 years, AI has been code for "our heuristic algorithm doesn't quite work on the general case yet but it's fun to keep trying, and and the rigged demos / simple cases impresses the peasants so grants are renewed."

@mattl I'm sorry, i misremembered while typing ... we ported to OS/2 PM, which was a precursor to WinNT, in 1988-89.

Whether StepStone and thence OpenStep used our patches shared with them in the WinNT port i haven't a clue (without looking for Wang Labs comment lines i guess).

@mattl huh. I wonder if they evolved that from our work or if they redeveloped it eventually from a latter branch point .

@mattl back when there was a Wang Labs, we were licensed by Stepstone to port Objective C to WinNT/PM, with eventual goal of a visual programming environment. Alas a recession killed the project, and contributed to corporate demise. 33MHz sounds about right.

@mattl
^where's the button for reporting ageism?^

(^Sarcasm thus.^)