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|    Message 967 of 1,530    |
|    Richard Falken to Dan Cross    |
|    Re: what's classic now?    |
|    01 Jul 21 18:13:48    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 464.fido_classicc@1:123/115 254383fc       REPLY: 3:770/100 3e0fc8fb       PID: Synchronet 3.19a-Linux master/48598fc02 Jun 13 2021 GCC 5.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/48598fc02 Jun 13 2021 GCC 5.5.0       COLS: 80       BBSID: PALANT       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: Synchronet msgeditor master/48598fc02        Re: Re: what's classic now?        By: Dan Cross to Richard Falken on Fri Jul 02 2021 03:01 am               > RF> By the way, the original Rogue, the namer of the roguelike game genre,        > RF> was originally developped on a PDP-11 running Unix V6.        >         > That doesn't sound right to me. Rogue began life on a VAX        > running BSD Unix, not 6th Edition. Adventure almost certainly        > made an appearance on the PDP-11 pretty early on, perhaps in        > the Research days, but rogue would have come later; after all,        > it uses curses.        >               I sourced that information from the Early Roguelike Gallery. John Elwin is       trying very hard to keep a living museum of early rogue(likes) so if you have a       valid source for that claim, he will LOVE to hear about it and make the       necessary corrections.              --       gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken       --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux        * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (1:123/115)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/0 18/0 200 90/1 105/81 116/116 120/340 457 616       SEEN-BY: 123/0 10 25 35 40 115 126 131 150 170 180 190 200 257 755       SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/300 153/7715 154/10 50 220/80 90 226/18 30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/101 424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/1 206 317 400 261/38 282/1038 292/854 299/6 300/4 301/1       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280 2320/105 3634/0 12 15 24 27       SEEN-BY: 3634/50 119       PATH: 123/115 3634/12 154/10 229/426           |
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