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# Pounding Brass and Blinking Symbols

You might at some time have read a story written in round-robin technique. A story that is started by one author, and finished by another, with perhaps one or more other authors contributing “middle” sections, And all working independently.

We have something like that this month–a trilogy of programs on related subjects, but done by three separate authors, each working without reference to either of the other programs.