Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:feldman%bartok.DEC@decwrl.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:feldman%bartok.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Well World, OBIE Message-ID: <645@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 15:45:49 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.645 Posted: Thu Feb 14 15:45:49 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Feb-85 05:32:50 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 11 From: feldman%bartok.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Geoff Feldman HL02-3E09 225-6023) My vote is "Object Based Intelligent Engine" As a twentieth century AI developer, thats what OBIE was, although OBJECT is in Caps in this case in that this computer dealt with objects in a more literal sense than todays machines. I wont defend this choice in terms of the story, its unfounded. But I had fun thinking of it. ---Geoff