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From: nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Wanted: random number generator written in C
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-70 02:30:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 02:30:02 1970
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    Although it is probably not relevant in this case, I might
mention how the Apple ][ generates it's random number seed for
Applesoft Basic (although it is extensible to the Aztec C that
I use).  Quite simply, everytime it checks to see if a character
has been typed at the keyboard (which is everytime it prints a
character, or is waiting for input) it increments a counter.  That
counter then can be used as a reasonably random seed for any random
number generator that the user creates.

                                        -kee