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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
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Subject: Re: Update to H. Piper! ver 1.1 (bug fixes and enhancements)
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Date: 24 May 91 02:42:42 GMT
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In a posting of [23 May 91 21:40:05 GMT]
   akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) writes:

 > For what PDP did you write Centipede for?  At least I'm assuming that
 > you used a PDP-11 for the MAcro-11 program.

   A PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E V6 or V7, using the RT-11 RTS. I may
still have the code on tape/pack somewhere. The terminals (VC404) only
had 25 lines, which made playing slightly difficult. (But it worked,
and it was one of the very first Macro-11 programs I ever wrote.) Not
to mention that the poor PDP-11 was heavily overused and tended to
swap badly. But this really belongs in alt.folklore, not
comp.sys.handhelds; a PDP-11/70 is not precisely a handheld (unless
your hand is caught under a foot - ouch)...

So, when do I get to play nethack on the HP-48? :-)

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu