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From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
Summary: Huh?
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.224027.13036@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 22:40:27 GMT
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From the letter from Spectrum Holobyte to Fred Fish regarding Tetris:
>The seven falling blocks (the mind remembers 7 plus or minus 2) are a
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>very essential part of the game.

Whoa there, what's this got to do with anything?  The limitation of 7 plus
or minus 2 is for short term memory, which is a moot point for anyone that
plays Tetris for more than 2 minutes (i.e., you remember the pieces in long
term memory, not short.)

Do those unfortunate folks with short term memory capacity of 5 items make
lousy Tetris players?  Geez, we'd better convert to a 7 letter alphabet, eh?
Or maybe 5, just to be safe.  Sounds like fertile material for a Psych 
study... ;-)

Sorry, but this seemed like flagrant BS to me, quite apart from the 
questionable issue of whether Spectrum Holobyte has the right to squash tetris
clones...

                                   - Neil

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