Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!ddw From: ddw@cornell.UUCP (David Wright) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Yet another War Games flaw Message-ID: <4832@cornell.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 14:32:00 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.4832 Posted: Fri Jul 15 14:32:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jul-83 01:40:00 EDT Sender: ddw@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Computer Science Lines: 19 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 {vax135|decvax|ihnss}!cornell!ddw ddw.cornell@udel-relay ddw@cornell