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From: dupuy@amsterdam.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
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Subject: Re: Maxwell's deamon
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 16:11:52 EDT
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There was a game (of sorts) for the DMD 5620 (aka Blit) bitmap terminals called
maxwell.  It created a box with two halves, with white and black balls bouncing
around inside.  There was a door between the two.  By clicking on the door you
could open it or shut it.  If you were bored you could play maxwell's daemon,
and get all the black balls on one side, and all the white on the other (unless
you got a court order to desegregate :-).  Another possibility was to get all
the balls on one or the other side.  Oh - the black and white balls moved at
different speeds, and when collisions occurred, balls could change from one
color to the other.  I don't think we have it any more though.

@alex
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