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One of my favourite tidbits from computing history is that the original motivation for creating the set of utilities that became the very first version of UNIX
by taejavu 2y ago
One of my favourite tidbits from computing history is that the original motivation for creating the set of utilities that became the very first version of UNIX was to aid in porting this game from a GE mainframe to the PDP-1.
- fjarlq 2y agoThat was Space Travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
- taejavu 2y agoHa, thanks for the correction, I've been giving the wrong name to Ken Thompson's game for years!
- larsbrinkhoff 2y agoAlso, it was ported (rewritten) to a PDP-7.