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panic
on April 17, 2015
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Towards improved C++ support for games, graphics, ...
Games have been a huge driving force behind tech from the beginning. For example, Unix only exists because Ken Thompson wanted to port his game Space Travel to the PDP-7.
yoklov
on April 17, 2015
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Is this true? That's a great piece of trivia if so.
panic
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Yeah, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
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