From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Subject: games
Date: 17 Aug 91 03:56:50 GMT
Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA



autodesk!robertj@uunet.uu.net (Young Rob Jellinghaus) writes:

>And for those who groan at the return to "games", I point out that
>these are not so much games as a new form of art, a new dramatic
>medium.  Are movies "games"?  Is writing a book "just a game"?  Is the
>story of your life a "game"?  Not to deingrate people who are focused
>on "applications", but they are only part of the story... many things
>can be written, many things filmed, and many things will be created in
>cyberspace.

For those groan at the return to "games", I would wager that
99% of the practical craft of software engineering was invented
in the middle of the night by someone trying to make a really 
great game.

Someone told me that Ethernet was debugged with MazeWare at Xerox PARC.
Nothing else stressed the in-house network as well.

Product designers like to make childrens' toys to sharpen their skills.

As Henry Ford said about FoMoCo's commitment to auto sports, 
"Racing improves the breed."

Lance Norskog