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Article #1051Re: XYZZY
From: fl... Ian Flanigan
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1990 17:52
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1990 17:52
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In article <11...@csli.Stanford.EDU> j...@csli.stanford.edu (John Kallen) writes:
>I was frustrated by Pyramid, so I did a pass with T-BUG. Commands
>(like PLUGH) showed up, but the text messages were compressed to make
>it fit into the massive 16K of RAM my TRS-80 had. Boy, those were
>impressive machines....
I seem to remember that there was a version of Star Trek for the TRS-80
that had to call the Klingons "Klings", because otherwise the program was
too big to fit in memory.
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> | | | | |\ | | /|\ | John K{llen "God hates me. *That's*
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!cec2!news From: fl...@ai.wustl.edu (Ian Flanigan) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: XYZZY Message-ID: <1990Jan30.175209.10258@cec1.wustl.edu> Date: 30 Jan 90 17:52:09 GMT References: <4504@rtech.rtech.com> <422@sixhub.UUCP> <1753@castle.ed.ac.uk> <90024.134216DSB100@PSUVM.BITNET> <11920@csli.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@cec2 (USENET News System) Reply-To: fl...@ai.wustl.edu (Ian Flanigan) Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Lines: 21 Posted: Tue Jan 30 18:52:09 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit