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From: davy@pur-ee (Dave Curry)
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Subject: Re: The Game of Chess - Summary
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The PDP-11 chess has been ported to Sun workstations... looking at the
source is amusing.  Some poor slob actually sat down and translated the
assembly language (the PDP-11 assembly language is in comments alongside
the 68000 code).  Yuck.  What a fun way to spend a weekend.

Chess is also the reason for the existence of the infamous "v6run" and
"v7run" programs from older Berkeley UNIXes...  somewhere in there is a
statement to the effect of "this is not guaranteed to run anything, it
was written so we could run chess".  (You should have seen how much
garbage we used to run under "v7run" here -- a basic interpreter,
restor, zork...).

I managed to make the V6 source assemble and run under V7 (mostly you
have to change seeks to lseeks and so on), but being a miserable chess
player, I didn't feel like spending the time to port it to a Vax.

--Dave Curry