Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00488
To: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com, "Steven Bolt" sbolt@xs4all.nl,
From: "Zulu 35" zulu35@singnet.com.sg
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:25:19 +0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM `claims' and misdemeanors, WAS: question
welll pardon me if i;m wrong.. i;m extremely new to this..but BEAM
robots... is it really a must for them to have a microcore on them??
cosh it seems to me that that would make BEAM very rigid in terms of ..
eh.. thinking? i dunno cant find the correct word... come on, its 4 in the
morning here..
well i heard somewhere that BEAm is sort of like a philoshiphy rather that
a fixed ""technology"?? if thats the case, wouldnt it be better to simply
describe BEAM robots as eh..robots that can survive all by themsleves,
without external help, once they are put together and powered up? hmmz.....
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> From: George Rix
> To: Steven Bolt ; beam@corp.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: BEAM `claims' and misdemeanors, WAS: question
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 11:59 PM
>
> 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
>
> ----------
> >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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