[net.misc] Lady Arwen Revealed At Last

sdo (02/24/83)

So, Valerie Polichar claims to be Lady Arwen.  It was a good try, Valerie,
but it has already been revealed that Andy Tannenbaum is Lady Arwen.
(I did find that hard to believe - I've met Andy, and believe me, he's
no lady!)

What you can tell us, Valerie, is what "iy47ab" means.


			Also claiming to be Lady Arwen,

			Scott Orshan
			Bell Labs Piscataway
			201-981-3064
			houxm!u1100a!sdo

neiman (02/25/83)

  
  This controversy about the Lady Arwen merely demonstrates the inability
  of Usenet readers to analyze a problem in a logical and eclectic manner.

  1. It is a well-known fact that there are many AI projects running
     on the net, one of them being floyd!trb.  Floyd!trb has just claimed to 
     be Lady Arwen.

  2. There is an expert system called R1 produced at CMU which configures
     Vaxen.  Clearly, Arwen is a punning form of R1.



     My conclusion (and conclusions differing from mine may be directed to
     /dev/null) is that Lady Arwen is a cloned version of the TRB program
     which is being developed at UCB and which bears the same relationship
     (better) to TRB that Berkely Un*x bears to Bell Un*x.  

     The "Lady" nomenclature merely indicates that the gender bit has been
     toggled from 0 to 1 (or 1 to 0, let's not quibble about which).


     I would like to point out that successful AI programs like Lady 
     Arwen are an inspiration to AI hackers everywhere and I can hardly
     wait until I have one of my own.

						  :-)

						     dann

henry (03/02/83)

     "...................Lady Arwen is a cloned version of the TRB program
     which is being developed at UCB and which bears the same relationship
     (better) to TRB that Berkely Un*x bears to Bell Un*x...."

Not everybody agrees with that parenthesized adjective...  Better find
out whether Lady Arwen does;  you may have insulted her.  :-)

					Henry Spencer
					U of Toronto