Date:  Monday, 16 April 1984 22:52 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  Miscellaneous Digest V3 #10
Reply-To:  {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc}
To:  {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc}

Miscellaneous Digest                              Volume 3 : Issue 10

Today's topics:
                    Moscow on the Usenet (from Arms-Discussion digest)
                    CACM Humor (from AI-List)

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Delivery-Date:  16 April 1984 22:34 mst
Date:  Monday, 16 April 1984 22:33 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  Moscow on the Usenet

Resent-Date:    Sun, 15 Apr 84 18:09:43 PST
Resent-From:    Douglas J. Trainor <trainor@UCLA-CS.ARPA>
Resent-To:      Arms-D@MIT-MC

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cepu.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 4/1/83 (SU840401); site kremvax.UUCP
Path: cepu!bmcg!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
From: chernenko@kremvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general,net.politics
Subject: USSR on Usenet
Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 11:02:52 PST
Article-I.D.: kremvax.0001
Posted: Sun Apr  1 11:02:52 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Apr-84 07:50:57 PST
Organization: MIIA, Moscow
Lines: 41

<.....>

Well, today, 840401, this is at last the Socialist Union of Soviet
Republics joining the Usenet network and saying hallo to everybody.

One reason for us to join this network has been to have a means of
having an open discussion forum with the American and European people
and making clear to them our strong efforts towards attaining peaceful
coexistence between the people of the Soviet Union and those of the
United States and Europe.

We have been informed that on this network many people have given strong
anti-Russian opinions, but we believe they have been misguided by their
leaders, especially the American administration, who is seeking for war
and domination of the world.  By well informing those people from our
side we hope to have a possibility to make clear to them our intentions
and ideas.

Some of those in the Western world, who believe in the truth of what
we say have made possible our entry on this network; to them we are
very grateful.  We hereby invite you to freely give your comments and
opinions.

Here are the data for our backbone site:

Name: moskvax
Organization: Moscow Institute for International Affairs
Contact: K. Chernenko
Phone: +7 095 840401
Postal-Address: Moscow, Soviet Union
Electronic-Address: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
News: mcvax kremvax kgbvax
Mail: mcvax kremvax kgbvax

And now, let's open a flask of Vodka and have a drink on our entry on
this network.  So:

                              NA ZDAROVJE!

--
          K. Chernenko, Moscow, USSR
          ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko

[Clever, but note the date it was sent .. JnL]

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Date:  Monday, 16 April 1984 22:51 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  CACM Humor (from AI-List)

Date: Wed 11 Apr 84 09:53:20-PST
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: What's Happening to Stuffy Old CACM?

I just can't resist passing along these items from Jon Bentley's
column in the April CACM:

  The CRAY-3 is so fast that it can execute an infinite loop
  in less than two minutes.

  Have you heard how [it] implements a branch instruction?
  It holds the program counter constant and moves the memory.


If you like those, you'll also like the articles beginning on
page 343.  Of particular interest to AIers is "The Chaostron:
An Important Advance in Learning Machines."

                                        -- Ken Laws

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