[TUHS] First machine to run rogue?

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 21:24:16 AEST 2021


Thanks, Clem. I'm curious what other lore is out there: my suspicion is
that rogue never ran on vanilla v6, but it would be great to validate.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
>
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