Re: Just popped in after many years...

In message <4b6a41414f.Andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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          newpostcentral@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In message <1c552a3f4f.SimonC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>           Simon Challands <simon_usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In message <4733bded$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>           "Ian Robinson" <ianr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Ian here, him of Karma fame ;-). Still fire up my acorns, mostly for
code
>>> dev as StrongEd is still such a good editor.
>> 
>> Good to hear that you're still keeping a slight eye on us, and still
>> using RISC OS a bit. Karma was a hugely interesting project (you may
>> recall me plotting an HR diagram from some of its stars), and nothing
>> has remotely approached it's ambitiousness in the intervening time.
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> Can you remind me how people were told about Karma's ambitions? I
> think I still have the review of the Flight Trainer in a Micro User at
> home and possibly there was a preview article in the same issue or
> surrounding issues but that was all AFAIK. It's so long ago, I only
> vaguely remember reading about other civilisations etc.

I seem to recall reading a fair bit about it in one or two magazines 
years ago. I'm sure the first contact Ian mentioned was in there, and 
there were others about seeing ****ps commuting to work, and the whole 
thing linked to the computer's clock.

-- 
Simon Challands