DUNGEON

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> If ZORK were ever to run on any other machine that machine first and
> foremost would have to have MDL. You know if SDS had that?
> Second, ZORK used a lot of memory. Unless the OS supported virtual
> memory, and a fairly large address space, that would also stop it.
> Appearantly ZORK on the PDP-10 needed over 600K to run (if that is bytes
> or 36-bit words I don't know, but I suspect bytes).

FWIW, there exists in the Z-machine spec a setting which indicates on what
machine the interpreter is running.  Depending on that setting, the game
may behave differently.  There was a setting for the PDP-10 (called
DECsystem 10).

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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