Remember that movie "War Games" with Mathew Broderic?What do we use computers like that for today?

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Not like that exact computer model but one as advanced by todays standards. It was studying strategic game theory, min/max theory, and I think it is called a null set match...

OH! And it had network control over the national defense, early AI, loved to ask "Shall we play a game?" but had a bad attitude about losing.

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I started to write you out an explanation, but found this on Wikipedia.  Enjoy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomput...