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Games have been a huge driving force behind tech from the beginning. For example, Unix only exists because Ken Thompson wanted to port his game Space Travel to

by panic 12y ago

Games have been a huge driving force behind tech from the beginning. For example, Unix only exists because Ken Thompson wanted to port his game Space Travel to the PDP-7.

yoklov 12y ago
Is this true? That's a great piece of trivia if so.
- panic 11y ago
  Yeah, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)