Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")

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From: James Powell
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 00:00

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jmfb...@aol.com writes:

> In article <23yadiw...@dragon.advancedsw.com>,
> James Powell <ja...@advancedsw.com> wrote:
> >
> >alde...@netcom12.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) writes:
> >> In article <qh4sgeg1...@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Eric Smith
> >> <eric-no-s...@brouhaha.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> Somewhere, I still have a 2-page XEROX-reduced copy  of a copy of a copy 
> >> of a.... for who knows how many iterations--given to me when I first went to 
> >> work for the UChicago Comp Center in 1977.
> ><snip>
> >
> >Funny, I went to work at one of the the UChicago computing centers in
> >1987, and Adventure (and TOPS-10) still had a strong presence there.
> 
> UofC ran TOPS-10?  I thought they were a -20 site.

Ah, I think you are correct.  TOPS-20, with DECNet, running a DBMS
system supporting university administration software.  And of course a
Fortran compiler and ADVENT.  I think I recall trying TECO on the box.
I cannot recall the name of the DBMS system, though...

Mea culpa,
  James

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From: James Powell <ja...@advancedsw.com>
Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
Date: 1999/10/05
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