[TUHS] First machine to run rogue?

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Fri Jul 2 12:51:22 AEST 2021


I first got it on V7, as I said on our 11/70 for sure but I don’t remember
if we had it on the 11/60 before that.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> What was the first machine to run rogue? I understand that it was written
> by Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy at UC Santa Cruz ca. 1980, using the
> `curses` library (Ken Arnold's original, not Mary Ann's rewrite). I've seen
> at least one place that indicates it first ran on 6th Edition, but that
> doesn't sound right to me. The first reference I can find in BSD is in 2.79
> ("rogue.doc"), which also appears to be the first release to ship curses.
>
> Anyone have any info? Thanks!
>
>         - Dan C.
>
> --
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