From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: crossd@gmail.com, clemc@ccc.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First machine to run rogue?
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 05:40:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202107021140.162BeWZt018129@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W6Bk4qD7MFvA4nBhHg+Hn-8j0CXgkedh2PTObJ+mH2=bA@mail.gmail.com>
Is the rogue source extant? I remember many people spending many
hours on rogue on the 4.[12] BSD vax at Georgia Tech.
ISTR that rogue only came as a binary, there was no source.
Arnold
Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Clem. I'm curious what other lore is out there: my suspicion is
> that rogue never ran on vanilla v6, but it would be great to validate.
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
> > I first got it on V7, as I said on our 11/70 for sure but I don’t remember
> > if we had it on the 11/60 before that.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> What was the first machine to run rogue? I understand that it was written
> >> by Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy at UC Santa Cruz ca. 1980, using the
> >> `curses` library (Ken Arnold's original, not Mary Ann's rewrite). I've seen
> >> at least one place that indicates it first ran on 6th Edition, but that
> >> doesn't sound right to me. The first reference I can find in BSD is in 2.79
> >> ("rogue.doc"), which also appears to be the first release to ship curses.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any info? Thanks!
> >>
> >> - Dan C.
> >>
> >> --
> > Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-02 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-02 2:05 Dan Cross
2021-07-02 2:51 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-02 11:24 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-02 11:40 ` arnold [this message]
2021-07-02 12:14 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-02 13:07 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-02 15:24 ` Brad Spencer
2021-07-02 16:27 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-02 21:09 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-10 3:17 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-07-10 4:00 ` Erik E. Fair
2021-07-10 5:04 ` Jon Forrest
2021-07-10 21:09 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-07-02 13:11 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-02 13:22 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-03 1:10 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-02 13:04 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-13 17:48 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-07-03 2:21 ` Matt Day
2021-07-03 14:15 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-03 15:08 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-03 22:25 ` Eric Allman
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