Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!axis!loic From: loic@axis.fr (Loic Dachary) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Historical Fact Message-ID: <389@axis.fr> Date: 21 Jun 88 14:39:15 GMT Organization: Axis Digital, Paris (Formation, Developpement, Vente) Lines: 20 I'm writing a historical summary of UNIX life. Reliable sources are difficult to find. The differences between stories and dates make this work hard and confusing. I found two different opinions about K. Thompson's Space Travel program. I quote them here : - From 'A user to the Unix System, Rebecca Thomas, Jean Yates' ... It simulated the movement of the major celestial bodies in the solar system.... - From 'The design of the Unix operating system, M. J. Bach' ... he wrote a game program, "Space Travel", in Fortran for a GECOS system (the Honeywell 635), but the program was unsatisfactory because it was difficult to control the "sapce shop" and the program was expensive to run... Does anybody have a pertinent opinion on this futile subject ?