mathgeek 2 days ago

Having also inferred "board games" to mean something I'd play on an average game night these days, it did cause me to reflect on making sure I think a bit before jumping to conclusions. The modern world has certainly trained me to think "pfft, call me when this can play a _real_ board game" as my first response, and that's pretty pathetic of me IMHO. The technology in use here makes it a really interesting topic.

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actionfromafar 3 days ago

... 8-bit microprocessor launched by Motorola in 1978

...reached a playing strength on par with GNU Go

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  • adrian_b 3 days ago

    MC6809 was actually launched in 1979, like MC68000, about one year after the launch of 8086 in 1978 by Intel.

    What Motorola did in 1978 was to publish some articles in the specialized magazines, announcing MC6809 as the future better replacement for their existing MC6800 derivatives. This is the same like Intel describing during last year how great will be their Panther Lake CPU, but Panther Lake has really been launched only a couple of days ago.

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