Subj : Re: what's classic now?
To   : Richard Falken
From : Dan Cross
Date : Fri Jul 02 2021 03:01 am

On 01 Jul 2021 at 03:18a, Richard Falken pondered and said...
 
 RF> By the way, the original Rogue, the namer of the roguelike game genre,
 RF> was originally developped on a PDP-11 running Unix V6.

That doesn't sound right to me.  Rogue began life on a VAX
running BSD Unix, not 6th Edition.  Adventure almost certainly
made an appearance on the PDP-11 pretty early on, perhaps in
the Research days, but rogue would have come later; after all,
it uses curses.

 RF> http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11#Unix_based_Operating_Systems
 RF> 
 RF> Operating Systems supported:
 RF> 
 RF> Unix 1 to 7.

One must be careful with nomenclature here: these are research
Unix versions, properly called "Editions" based on the edition
oft he Unix programmers manual that was current when they were
cut.

Similarly, the other DEC OS's listed had other versions; e.g.,
RSX-11 also had RSX-11m etc.  An interesting historical tidbit
is that RSX-11m was written by Dave Cutler (then at Dupont),
who went to Digital and wrote VMS for the VAX.  After leaving
DEC, he went to Microsoft, where he was the primary architect
of Windows NT (WNT = V+1, M+1, S+1).  The internal structure
of NT is very similar to the internal structure of VMS.

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