From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!neiman Newsgroups: net.misc,net.jokes Title: Re: Lady Arwen Revealed At Last Article-I.D.: ittvax.630 Posted: Fri Feb 25 13:59:28 1983 Received: Sat Feb 26 03:08:45 1983 References: u1100a.295 This controversy about the Lady Arwen merely demonstrates the inability of Usenet readers to analyze a problem in a logical and eclectic manner. 1. It is a well-known fact that there are many AI projects running on the net, one of them being floyd!trb. Floyd!trb has just claimed to be Lady Arwen. 2. There is an expert system called R1 produced at CMU which configures Vaxen. Clearly, Arwen is a punning form of R1. My conclusion (and conclusions differing from mine may be directed to /dev/null) is that Lady Arwen is a cloned version of the TRB program which is being developed at UCB and which bears the same relationship (better) to TRB that Berkely Un*x bears to Bell Un*x. The "Lady" nomenclature merely indicates that the gender bit has been toggled from 0 to 1 (or 1 to 0, let's not quibble about which). I would like to point out that successful AI programs like Lady Arwen are an inspiration to AI hackers everywhere and I can hardly wait until I have one of my own. :-) dann