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

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From: alde... Richard M. Alderson III
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00
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In article <7tfana$9lt$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net> jmfb...@aol.com writes:

>In article <ALDERSON.9...@netcom2.netcom.com>,
>   alde...@netcom2.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) wrote:

>>That would have been the (in)famous System 1022.  

>Oh, yeah.  I remember hearing those words at work :-).  I always
>got the impression that they were swears.

>>By 1987, I think Compu$erve had bought the company, since all of their
>>internals were based on it (running on top of a very old Tops-10 highly
>>bummed for larger memory).  A few years ago we tried to buy the source, but
>>it didn't work out.

>Why would you want the sources, if it's not impertinent to ask :-).

Even if it *were* impertinent, hmm?  That's easy:  A customer needed it.  I
don't know whether the customer in question would care if I named them in this
newsgroup, but it's not hard to figure out.  Perhaps the frequent poster who
works for them will say.

Rich Alderson			Last LOTS Tops-20 Systems Programmer, 1984-1991
				Current maintainer, MIT TECO EMACS (v. 170)
last name @ XKL dot COM		Chief systems administrator, XKL LLC, 1998-now
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From: alde...@netcom2.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
Date: 1999/10/07
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