[TUHS] First machine to run rogue?

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 22:14:59 AEST 2021


On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 7:40 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

It is; it looks like it was first distributed with 4.3BSD-Tahoe. The
sources there are listed as "public domain rogue", but I'm not sure about
the provenance of that code.

        - Dan C.


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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