8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
7:22 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
From: Bill Sudbrink
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:52 PM
Agreed.
<nitpick on>
...and IIRC, after a successful process was started using the "^K"
method, you'd receive a "!" confirmation. So, in short, a proccess
successfully started under ITS on one of the MIT ITS machines would
look as thus:
ZORK^K!
<nitpick off>
To this day, my "TIP" access remains the closest thing I ever did that
resembled something similar to that of what happened in War Games --
as eventually some military brass from the TIP I was using sent me
email telling me to beat it or else. I didn't at first, then received
a sterner warning, and eventually had to leave (dialing the east coast
11) I no longer remember how to start up Zork or
some of the
other programs... anyone feel free to provide details I'm
missing.
You were advised to use "ZORK^K" rather than ":ZORK". The latter
would always start a new Zork process, which was unfriendly given
the limited number of processes available under ITS; the former
would start a Zork process if none already existed, otherwise
connecting you to a shared memory image. from the west coast was costly; using a (government
sponsered) west
cost TIP to access machines across the country was preferred -- at
least in my eyes.)
:-)
--eric940