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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Timo Salmi's MANAGAME
Keywords: tsgames
Message-ID: <560@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 7 Jun 89 11:22:28 GMT
References: <1194@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <1194@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM
(martin.b.brilliant) writes:
>I like Timo Salmi's MANAGAME (part of the tsgames package, v03i008 and
>v03i009).  It raised a lot of questions.  It also showed that the

I am naturally very pleased that you liked managame, and you made a
number of relevant observations about the logic of the game in your
posting.  There is no denying that the logic of my game is far from
waterproof.  My excuse is that the underlying, original purpose of
this game was to serve as a quick and palpable introduction to the
concept of management games by letting a student to play it
interactively with a computer.  At the time (at the beginning of
1970's) when I devised this game, the role of the computer in
management games was much much more unclear to students than what it
is now. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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