Wow. I remember reading CL/DM in college, in maybe 1976. I was running my programs on IBM mainframes, entered using punchcards, so this book really spoke to me.

Wow. I remember reading CL/DM in college, in maybe 1976. I was running my programs on IBM mainframes, entered using punchcards, so this book really spoke to me. I think I remember it describing Core Wars, and that inspired me to create a similar game, first on a PDP 11, written in assembler; and later in SNOBOL4, running on an IBM mainframe. I walked into my kitchen this morning, and there were two mac laptops there, with many other computers throughout the house. I told my 17-year old daughter that at her age, I never imagined that such a thing would be possible in my lifetime. CL/DM really has come true, and then some. My recollection is that it really nailed the idea of a personal computer, but completely missed the networking side of the current computing world.