Early PC software, forked to 'Early PC Games'

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 19:39:43 -0700 (PDT)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:

> Scott wrote:
> > and also Microsoft Adventure, which is the regular 'UNIX' adventure
> > game ('xyzzy' password, etc.) ported to the PC on a bootable
> > diskette(no DOS required).  I knew it first as 'Microsoft Adventure'
> > due to early exposure to it on dad's PC.  People from the UNIX
> > culture would obviously object to this name.
> 
> I don't see why.  It's not fundamentally a "Unix game".  It originated
> on TOPS-10 on a DECsystem-10 (PDP-10 processor).
> 

You're correct;  I was uncertain of the origin of the game.  I should
have typed <insert whatever bigger system it originated on here> instead
of Unix.