I learned, from Hackers by Steven Levy, of Bill Gosper's work on Life at the MIT AI Lab. Apparently they had two versions of Life running on a PDP-10 there, u

I learned, from Hackers by Steven Levy, of Bill Gosper's work on Life at the MIT AI Lab. Apparently they had two versions of Life running on a PDP-10 there, under the ITS operating system. Gosper wrote his in TECO (a programming language used to edit text), and another in MIDAS, written by Mike Speciner. But ITS no longer ran, and the Life programs appear to have been been lost. Some time afterwards, there was a project to resurrect ITS, which I got involved in. After it was up and running, initially on the SIMH simulator, and later more stably on Ken Harrenstien's klh10 emulator, I wrote a new version of Life for it in MIDAS (PDP-10) assembly language, which is now located at http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/its/life.txt http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/its/life.txt This drew the attention of Dan Weinreb, who provided some information on the original AI Lab version: https://web.archive.org/web/20050209065438/http://lispmeister.com/blog/alife/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050209065438/http://lispmeiste...