Rogue: Mctesq was here

[Alan Perry]

On 11/19/16 11:33 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> On 11/19/16 11:00 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
>> On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
>>>> So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office
>>>> and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
>>>>
>>>>      linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
>>>>
>>> still on the net
>>>
>>> http://www.coredumpcentral.org/download.html
>>>
>> Most Linux distributions have a version
> 3.7 is what is significant. Toy was very protective of the sources back in the day
> so the source to the really early versions were hard to find at the time. I did
> the snoopy dance when I found the source for the color version on the SGI IRIS.
>
> How many people remember Rog-O-Matic from CMU?
>
>
One of the guys that I went to college with at New Mexico Tech, Ed 
Fries, spent a lot
of time running rog-o-matic. It seemed like he was working on it, but I 
don't know
what he was doing with it other than bringing the VAX to its knees when 
the rest of
us were trying to get class assignments done on the 750.

alan