Re: And now, from the author of the DOS Disk post, a post that actually relates to this newsgroup.

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

> OK, I've found the article.  It was published in The Sourceror's
> Apprentice, Volume 1 Number 4 (April 1989).  The article was called
> "Random Bytes", and was written by Robert C Moore of the Applied Physics
> Laboratory at the John Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland.
> 
> The article covers two designs for shift and exclusive OR random number
> generators.  I'll use the simpler one here, which has a shorter period
> of 2^25-1 (33554431).

 [snip]

> Note that if you want to do this again (getting a different pattern),
> you should avoid calling INITRAND more than once.
> 
> You can use CALL 800 to call the INITRAND routine directly, then use
> CALL 771 for each random fill.
> 
> If you only need to use it once, just CALL 768.

Thank you for all your work. That must have taken a while to convert it.

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