[Info-vax] State of the Port - July 2017

[Rich Alderson]

Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:

> Around 1980 all you neede to run Adventure was a Fortran compiler. The source
> compiled and ran on a B7700 and a little later unaltered (istr) on a pdp
> 11/40 under rt-11. The B7700 didn't even have a C compiler then, it was added
> much later.

You do know that Adventure started life as a FORTRAN program on a PDP-10 at
BBN, right?  And that the game most people are familiar with was an expansion
of the original, still in FORTRAN, done on a PDP-10 at the Stanford Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, right?

By 1980 it had been in existence for several years.

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