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(foldoc) | SPACEWAR
A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written
in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR
was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which
two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes
at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were
wondering what to do with a new vector video display so
Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in
California and still writes software for HC12 emulators.
SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker
culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game
motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a
scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix.
Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised
as one of the first video games; descendants are still
feeping in video arcades everywhere.
["SPACEWAR" or "Space Travel"?]
[Jargon File]
(2004-07-19)
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spacewar
(jargon) | SPACEWAR
n.
A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. “Doc” Smith's Lensman
books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting
torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first
implemented on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1962. In 1968-69, a descendant of the
game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged
PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after
that, SPACEWAR was commercialized as one of the first video games;
descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
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