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From: ddw@cornell.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Yet another War Games flaw
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Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 14:32:00 EDT
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From: ddw (David Wright)
To: net-sf-lovers

This one just occurred to me last night and it's something that \wasn't/ in
the movie and should have been.

There was \only one/ WOPR!  Or at least they only showed one.  This is
insane.  When something is the heart of your system, you have to have
backups!  And if there had been a backup, perhaps it could have been
put on-line so they could take out the one that was trying to win the
game.  (Of course, the backups might have been running in parallel and
also trying to run the game, but it would have been an interesting
plot wrinkle.)

                                 David Wright

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