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Article #45900Re: Looking for Mac ``mahjongg'' - lost mail/responses
From: Chih-Hsiang Chou
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 19:30
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 19:30
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In article <377@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: > >Pet Peeve: Shanghai, and the PD implementation GunShy ARE NOT MAHJONGG! > >In fact, the only vague similarity that they have with MahJongg is >that they happen to use the same tiles. Please do not confuse the >"concentration" style pairing game with the complex and interesting >multiplayer gambling game as found throughout China, Japan and even >here in the United States. You are right that Mahjong (or Mahjongg) originally refers to the 4-player gambling game. The confusion, as far as I know, has arisen ever since someone wrote a public domain version of Shanghai for the Sun workstation and named it Mahjongg, at least three years ago. To add more confusion, there is in fact a Mahjongg gambling game available for the IBM PC and compatibles. It is called "Taiwan Mahjongg". Please don't ask me how to acquire it as I don't know neither. -- Chih-Hsiang Chou chou@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
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