25 Apr
2006
25 Apr
'06
10:27 a.m.
"Eric F." <elf at ucsd.edu> wrote:
Eric F. wrote:
I had an account on MIT-AI, and that was definitely a PDP-10. I'm very
sure that MIT-MC also was a PDP-10. MIT-ML however I don't know about.
As for ZORK, it was definitely written on a PDP-10. Infocom rented time
on a PDP-10 for quite a while. I know I've also seen mentioned somewhere
at one time that they even had their own -2020 for a while, but I'm not
sure I remember correctly.
If ZORK were ever to run on any other machine that machine first and
foremost would have to have MDL. You know if SDS had that?
Second, ZORK used a lot of memory. Unless the OS supported virtual
memory, and a fairly large address space, that would also stop it.
Appearantly ZORK on the PDP-10 needed over 600K to run (if that is bytes
or 36-bit words I don't know, but I suspect bytes).
Johnny
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Actually, I saw (and used) the original ZORK
running on an SDS
(later XDS) Sigma 7 computer (the actual ARPAnet machine name
was MIT-DMS).
Apparently I fired off my original reply prematurely. The original MIT
machine running ZORK (MIT-DMS) was, in fact, a PDP-10. But I'm quite sure
that one of the other machines back there (i.e., MIT-AI, MIT-MC, or MIT-ML)
was an SDS Sigma machine (or even an SDS-940).
Sorry for my mis-informed post. :0