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'Suggest' Is a Hypothetical Question

The odds were against that, i think, because it was, you know, these guys fooling around. But management took a very enlightened view of work that wasn't obvious. I remember once being in a room with ken thompson and joe condon, who had done this work on bell chess playing,. The first really successful chess playing computer. And said visitor asked, well are these guis working on computer chess? It doesn't othing to do with communications. So we did the defense so that somebody like can or joe didn't have to say anything.

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