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As per the comments it was Richard Parkins, talked about on their website -https://web.archive.org/web/20220430130623/http://www.zen224037.zen.co.uk/SPE.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20220430130623/http://www.zen224... Robert Morris mentioned in the letter was Robert Morris Jr.'s father. Core Wars did lead to real life Cyber Wars. [edit] Wow the in/famous CNN cover https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19880926,00.html https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19880926,00.htm... said this two months before the Morris Worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm