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authorP. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2011-11-15 00:29:24 (EST)
committer P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2011-11-15 00:29:24 (EST)
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Note that Spacewar! was itself a hack.
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Spacewar!
space shooter with realistic physics that showed power of PDP-1
written by Steve Russel in 1961-1962
+ a traditional hack
+ goofy and random, with no use other than as a diversion
MIT hackers freely shared game
[Quinn, 316]
[CHM-Spacewar!]
+ [Williams-RMS, 211]
TODO: something about sharing software like sugar [Williams-RMS, 5]
Unix
originally written in 1969 to run on PDP-7