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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:12:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > Oh, come, come now. They didn't really mean that every SPECIES of animal
> > went in the ark. Just every KIND.
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> I see--two prokaryotes and two eukaryotes. *Now* I understand!
> What could I have been thinking??
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> > You are lost in a maze of twisty little contradictions, all alike.
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> Ah, Zork! An all-time favorites!
You know, I never actually played Zork. My pastiche paid homage to Zork's
predecessor, ADVENT, which I *have* played on such machines as the UNIVAC
1100/80, the IBM 4341, and the Commodore PET.
http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#ADVENT
(I don't think the above link is to the canonical dict but merely to a
shadow. Close enough though)
++Lar
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Geology from Outer Space
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| (...) It's kind of neat the caver connection to Advent. Crowther's wife was one of the people who participated in the exploration which connected Mammoth and Flint Ridge caves (and is what really won the cold war - at the time of the connection, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Geology from Outer Space
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| (...) Actually it was originally called "Colossal cave" (by Willie Crowther). I only ever played it on a PDP 11/70 until I decided to learn Perl a couple of years ago - someday I'll get around to putting my Perl port of the original (350 pts) game (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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