3. Game-Playing Subsystem : Hardware and Software Used

The system was run Linux workstations owned by the Taylor Computing and System Sciences department. It also interfaced with an infrared transmitter supplied with the Mindstorm Robotics kit.

Most of the code was written in Lisp and interpreted with the clisp interpreter, which is distributed by Carnegie Mellon University. Functions for communication with the robot were written in C and linked into the interpreter using clisp's FFI conventions.

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