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- HISTORY OF SUPERGRAM
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- Version 1.00 January 1988
- Small C program written to teach myself the C language. It ran under
- UNIX and did a brute-force search using the lexicon in /etc/words. Printed
- out all collections of English words that formed anagrams. No other refinements.
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- Version 2.00 March 1989
- Completely recoded in BBC BASIC on an Arthur Archimedes. Had some understanding
- of word frequencies and a few specialist dictionaries. Kept best scoring
- words in buffer.
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- Version 3.00 January 1990
- Large sections recoded in ARM assembly language for speed. Extra features
- added and dictionaries improved.
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- Version 4.00 April 1990
- Adapted to run under RISC OS in a window. The first complete Desktop program
- I wrote. Additional improvements. Lots of work on dictionaries.
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- Version 4.11 August 1991
- Minor changes made and released as a freeware application into the Archimedes
- world.
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- Version 5.00 September 1993
- Completely rewritten in C with a view to producing a Microsoft Windows
- version. Took advantage of what I learnt in my now-completed computer
- science degree to completely polish the searching algorithm (which now
- runs around ten times faster than version 4 and around 1000 times faster
- than version 1 without resorting to assembler). The skills I learnt when
- writing Cyber Chess were put to good effect to greatly improve the user
- interface. Further large improvements to the dictionaries & extra features.
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- Version 5.11 October 1993
- Released.
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