Someone wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2013-09-25 11:11 pm (UTC)

Re: which Zork?

I got my hands on a Zork executable compiled from that Fortran code for DEC's RT-11 OS. I had Unix v6 on a PDP-11/45, so I wrote an RT-11 emulator for Unix in order to run Zork. It was good enough that I could distribute it (via magtape at Usenix meetings, there being no github in 1979.) That allowed an RT-11 shop in Portland to switch to Unix, which created a sysadmin job, which let me move there. Thanks Zork!

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