Re: Hunt for rand and srand implementations ;)
From: Skybuck Flying (nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/31/04
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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:29:11 +0100
"Bob Harris" <plasticnitlion@wrappermindspring.com> wrote in message
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> >> This coming from the guy that thinks PRNG's are platform specific.
> >> Crack me up.
> >
> > It could have been... nothing is stopping anybody from adding it to an
OS ;)
>
> Actually, I microcoded one into the instruction set of a special purpose
CPU
> in 1978. Was probably not the first such implementation. But the PRNG
> itself was not platform specific.
Exactly I was thinking the same think. I believe that even Intel's latest
process have a random number generator... though it's not a pseudo one ;)
>
> > The game is to see how long he can make people play along. He's been
doing it
> > for years. Google archives should provide sufficient data to back this
up.
>
> Well, if that's the game, I observe that he is playing you quite well.
Exactly I was thinking the same thing lol.
>
> Bob H
>
>
>
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