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Article #165098Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
From: alde... Richard M. Alderson III
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00
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 Message-ID: <ALDERSON.99Oct7160731@netcom2.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 534105840 References: <7sccil$l67$1@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> <37EACCE2.95AB5BA@plano.net> <anEG3.462$lq3.58345@ptah.visi.com> <btomlin-2409992235520001@atuin.bruce> <37ec6a9c.1172978@news.demon.co.uk> <37EC356C.1A381ABA@plano.net> <X4OH3.224$4X3.3805@ord-read.news.verio.net> <qh4sgeg1lj.fsf_-_@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <ALDERSON.99Sep29001513@netcom12.netcom.com> <23yadiwt9k.fsf@dragon.advancedsw.com> <7tcn2n$br2$2@autumn.news.rcn.net> <23u2o5wy5a.fsf@dragon.advancedsw.com> <ALDERSON.99Oct5154058@netcom2.netcom.com> <7tfana$9lt$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> Organization: NETCOM On-line services X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Oct 07 6:07:31 PM CDT 1999 Reply-To: alde...@netcom.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers NNTP-Posting-User: alderson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit