2 Jul
2021
2 Jul
'21
3:22 p.m.
Ken Arnold posted the original source to
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rogue/ back in 2000.
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:12 AM Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
Glenn wrote up a brief history where he says it was
first distributed with
4.2bsd.
https://web.archive.org/web/19980625212119/http://www.wichman.org/roguehist…
@ Fortune Systems in 1983/83 we had 3-4 college students working for a
contract company Santa Cruz Operations(?) doing testing for us. He was one
of them and later we hired him full time. I didn’t interact with him much
though and once I quit Fortune I lost track of him. I think initially we
had only a rogue binary on 4.1 running on VAX780 but I do not recall if he
brought it to Fortune. Someone later ported it to the Fortune machine. I
used to play Rogue while waiting for kernel compiles to finish. A few years
ago I got it on FreeBSD and my muscle memory came back 100%!
On Jul 2, 2021, at 5:16 AM, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 7:40 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Is the rogue source extant? I remember many
people spending many
hours on rogue on the 4.[12] BSD vax at Georgia Tech.
ISTR that rogue only came as a binary, there was no source.
It is; it looks like it was first distributed with 4.3BSD-Tahoe. The
sources there are listed as "public domain rogue", but I'm not sure about
the provenance of that code.
- Dan C.
Arnold
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Clem. I'm curious what other lore is
out there: my suspicion is
that rogue never ran on vanilla v6, but it would be great to validate.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> I first got it on V7, as I said on our 11/70 for sure but I don’t
remember
> if we had it on the 11/60 before that.
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What was the first machine to run rogue? I understand that it was
written
>> by Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy at UC
Santa Cruz ca. 1980, using the
>> `curses` library (Ken Arnold's original, not Mary Ann's rewrite).
I've seen
>> at least one place that indicates it
first ran on 6th Edition, but
that
>> doesn't sound right to me. The
first reference I can find in BSD is
in 2.79
>> ("rogue.doc"), which also
appears to be the first release to ship
curses.
>>
>> Anyone have any info? Thanks!
>>
>> - Dan C.
>>
>> --
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
>