[TUHS] First machine to run rogue?

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Fri Jul 2 21:40:32 AEST 2021


Is the rogue source extant?  I remember many people spending many
hours on rogue on the 4.[12] BSD vax at Georgia Tech.

ISTR that rogue only came as a binary, there was no source.

Arnold

Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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