Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!dudek From: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) Newsgroups: ont.micro Subject: Re: flame about random numbers Message-ID: <337@utai.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 15:49:52 EST Article-I.D.: utai.337 Posted: Tue Jan 8 15:49:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 16:33:02 EST References: <336@utai.UUCP> <435@deepthot.UUCP> Reply-To: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 4 Summary: Well, the apple II random number generator does not DEPEND on i/o delays, but they serve to reseed the generator. This is especially important (& valuable) in the game-type applications the were originally referred to.