4 ms·

Any early computer. Heck, UNIX was developed so the bored team members could play games on an old minicomputer.

• ghotli 14y ago
  You got a link to back that one up?
  • podperson 14y ago
    No I read it in a book years ago. (Perhaps "Hackers", by Steven Levy.) The story, as I recall, was that Ken Thompson was working at Bell Labs, bored, and had an old PDP-7 (?) that had no software. He was bored and wanted something to run space war on, but to get there he needed an OS, compiler, etc.
    • mitchellhislop 14y ago
      You are right on that citation. Awesome, awesome book that really opened my eyes (as a 24 year old) as to just how far things had come.
  • nnexx 14y ago
    See: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/spacetravel.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/spacetravel.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.pdf http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.pdf
    • podperson 14y ago
      Thank you. I have a better memory for trivial detail than sources!