VLSI%DEC-MARLBORO@sri-unix.UUCP (06/25/83)
OK, so maybe the makers of "WarGames" didn't know much about computers. They didn't realize that computers are not covered with flashing lights, they do not hum (they whoosh), and they don't echo your passwords. But you don't have to know much about computers to realize that the movie's ending is nonsensical. The claim appears to be that after the computer was shown that tic-tac-toe was unwinnable, it realized that nuclear war was unwinnable too. This thing is an ace-pro game player, and has been programmed by a non-fool, and somehow it has never come across the idea that games have ties. It had been running nuclear war simulations for years and years, and never noticed that no one ever seemed to win the war. And this is a machine that was deliberately built to learn from its mistakes. Sure, the movie is politically correct, but I'm not sure I want bozos like this on my side. PS The first time I tried to see this movie it was sold out. "Rechurn of the Jedi" was doing very poor business next door. I think the word is out that it's not nearly up to the level of its predecessors. John Redford DEC-Hudson --------