NU092254@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Brian Dall) (07/20/87)
Maswell's demon; I never saw it in writing.) is for a homework
assignment.
Has anyone ever heard of it? I'd like to find out all I can
aboout it.
Please respond via e-mail, not by posting to this newsgroup.
Thank you,
take care,
-Bri
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In article <242NU092254@NDSUVM1> NU092254@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Brian Dall) writes: >Maxwell's daemon; I never saw it in writing.) is for a homework >assignment. > Maxwell daemons are installed at every backbone site. They filter out garbage from the postings :-)
adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill) (08/06/87)
In article <242NU092254@NDSUVM1> NU092254@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Brian Dall) writes: > Has anyone ever heard of it? I'd like to find out all I can >aboout it. Maxwell's daemon is the /dev/null daemon, it sits on the bit bucket and lifts the lid whenever a bit comes its way. This is the 'work around' for the "conservation of bits" problem discussed a few months ago. -Adam. /* If at first it don't compile, kludge, kludge again.*/ {NUKE THE GAY WHALE!}
dupuy@amsterdam.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) (08/12/87)
There was a game (of sorts) for the DMD 5620 (aka Blit) bitmap terminals called maxwell. It created a box with two halves, with white and black balls bouncing around inside. There was a door between the two. By clicking on the door you could open it or shut it. If you were bored you could play maxwell's daemon, and get all the black balls on one side, and all the white on the other (unless you got a court order to desegregate :-). Another possibility was to get all the balls on one or the other side. Oh - the black and white balls moved at different speeds, and when collisions occurred, balls could change from one color to the other. I don't think we have it any more though. @alex --- arpanet: dupuy@columbia.edu uucp: ...!seismo!columbia!dupuy