Core Wars is Related to “The Planiverse”
Posted by Rick on the 21st of November, 2008 at 1:48 am under Programming. This post has Comments.Just ran across (via Proggit) an interesting blog post about Core War, a game I played a bit with on Linux a few years back in which programs compete for dominance inside a virtual machine. Very neat idea - you program an agent that will go and fight for you in a virtual world. Cool.
What I didn’t know was that A.K. Dewdney wrote an article about Core War in Scientific American in 1984. This is the same A.K. Dewdney that authored one of my very favorite science fiction/philosophy books ever, The Planiverse. It turns out it is sort of a small world.