DUNGEON

[Eric F.]

Johhny Billquist wrote:

 > First there was ZORK. That's it, just ZORK. No numbers,
 > no nothing. This program was written in MDL and ran on
 > PDP-10 systems only. MDL is a Lisp-like language implemented
 > at MIT. You're probably out of luck if you ever want to
 > play the original ZORK on anything but a PDP-10.


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Actually, I saw (and used) the original ZORK running on an SDS (later XDS) 
Sigma 7 computer (the actual ARPAnet machine name was MIT-DMS).  And, if 
I'm not mistaken, I believe it was originally developed on this machine 
(though I could be off on this fact).  I actually visited the famed 9th 
floor of 545 Tech. Square at MIT way back in the early 80s and saw the beast.


(Still have my MDL programming manual around too...)

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--Eric F. (proud owner of an SDS-940 console, Sigma 9 console (wired up to 
show off all 100+ Blinkenlights!), and lots of other assorted SDS/XDS swag.)