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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   
   
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     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.   
      
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