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From: Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Copyright for "simulating halt decider" by Olcott for many years
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On 02/03/2025 21:11, olcott wrote:
> On 3/2/2025 2:40 PM, Andy Walker wrote:
>>    http://www.cuboid.me.uk/anw/G12FCO/lect18.html
>> [start at the third paragraph], [...]
> [the third paragraph]

	[Note that I said "start at ...", not "look only at ...".]

> _DD()
> [00002133] 55         push ebp      ; housekeeping
[...]

	Not interested;  sorry.  I was concerned only to point out that
the idea of a "simulating halt decider", or any similar phrase, was not
new in 2004, but has been well-known for many [at least 60] years.  If
you choose to waste your remaining time on this planet trying to do the
impossible, go ahead.  I shan't be joining you, so this will be my last
contribution to the debate unless something interesting crops up.  "DD"
and "HHH" and similar aren't in the least bit interesting to me;  I'm
astonished that others are so fascinated, but that's up to them.

-- 
Andy Walker, Nottingham.
    Andy's music pages: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music
    Composer of the day: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music/Composers/Forbes