Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #00480



To: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:59:50 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM `claims' and misdemeanors, WAS: question


Well I, for one, am pretty darn confused. I assume you're talking about a
microcore, as in the circuit that I first read about as being a BEAM
circuit? Now I'm even more confused. Are you being sarcastic, or serious?
I'm not really sure.
And I'd say BEAM is a fair bit more vague than that. Is cybug a BEAM bot? As
Ian Bernstein asked, what is a BEAM bot? It is a robot which makes use of
the BEAM philosophy, not any specific tek. And that in itself makes it
pretty darn vague.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law

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>From: Steven Bolt
>To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: BEAM `claims' and misdemeanors, WAS: question
>Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999, 2:05 PM
>

> It's a trademark. There are no BEAM 'bots containing a uC, period.
> Is it possible to use a uC in the BEAM spirit? Of course; just read
> the BEAM Robot Games Rules and Guidelines.
> BEAM is vague only in the sense that almost any small `bot can have
> a go at the Games.

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