From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix game origins - stories similar to Crowther's Adventure
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 16:36:16 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgwVVkWE14CKaODY2C_Qr8EyjNyLesT+SxD=-YEnikgPFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWnHn6jMLHzYMNX6+gDSBuib+htj4_+syGxT3W_5BNPcA@mail.gmail.com>
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Best TUHS mail ever. I never knew that setuid was for moo. What other
secrets are you hoarding?
-rob
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 3:51 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Moo (later marketed as Master Mind) was an import from Cambridge. A
> moo leader board sprang up. Maintenance of a file that had to be
> written on behalf of any user posed a conundrum--how could you protect
> it against false updates? Dennis's novel solution to this and related
> problems was setuid, which garnered the only Unix patent.
>
> Wumpus was my preschool kids' introduction to computing. They learned
> the tricks of shooting crooked arrows faster than I learned that the
> cave is always the same, with random room numbers. Only years later
> did I discover by reading the code that the shape is a dodecahedron.
> That fact would have helped note-taking a lot.
>
> Doug
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-01 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-01 2:30 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2023-02-01 2:58 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-02-01 4:50 ` Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-01 5:36 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2023-02-01 20:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-02 15:35 ` Marc Donner
2023-02-03 2:15 ` Adam Thornton
2023-02-01 6:27 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-01 7:09 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-01 14:41 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-01 15:22 ` Will Senn
2023-02-01 17:34 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-01 17:52 ` Henry Bent
2023-02-01 18:33 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-01 19:09 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-01 19:16 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-01 20:21 Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-01 20:41 ` A. P. Garcia
2023-02-01 20:47 ` ron minnich
2023-02-01 23:31 ` Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-01 23:24 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-02 0:43 Noel Chiappa
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