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I learned C by writing a MUD client around '87-89. This was for VMS, where the telnet client didn't properly handle newlines and carriage returns, which made t
by dekhn 2y ago
I learned C by writing a MUD client around '87-89. This was for VMS, where the telnet client didn't properly handle newlines and carriage returns, which made telnetting into a mud (tinymud at CMU mainly, then chaos and a few others) painful. I recently dug up the code (it was still online somewhere) and had a laugh.
- hinkley 2y agoMy friends group got really good at Unix filesystem permissions at a time when people were having to be cajoled into using email. Someone found a little space to stash programs and we had tcsh and tinyfugue among other things available to us.
- rascul 2y agoInterestingly enough, many MUDs don't actually explicitly support the telnet protocol (but some do). It just so happens that a telnet client would generally work, even if it wasn't the most suitable.