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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: True Multitasking, and some history lessons
Message-ID: <2348@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 05:50:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  1 05:50:43 1987
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Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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In article <1306@crash.CTS.COM> ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) writes:
>
>It was called "Space Wars", manufactured and sold by Cinematronics (now called
>"Leeland Corp." I beleive) in El Cajon, CA.  This is the same company that
>later made "Dragon's Lair", the first Laser Disk game.
>
>By the way, this arcade version was done entirely in discrete hardware; no
>CPU or memory as such.  It was just "bil-yuns and bil-yuns" of random TTL
>chips, which drove a monochrome vector monitor.  I'm not sure whether I'm more
>impressed by the 4K PDP-11 version or the hardware version.

Not true.  The Space Wars arcade game was based on a TI bit-slice processor.
I've still got the machine code dump for the ROMs somewhere around.  I'm
much more impressed by the 4K PDP version, which was on the PDP-1, by the way,
long before the 11 was even a dream.

(I'm also directing follow-ups to rec.games.video, by the way.)



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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
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