Re: Text Adventure Data Structures

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <ccpjvn$8uh$4@chessie.cirr.com>,
Paul Allen Panks  <panks@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> Since the mid-1970s, attempts have been made to write
> text adventures using a variety of methods. Zork (to
> use an early example) was originally written at M.I.T.
> on a PDP series mainframe

Weren't the PDP's minicomputers rather than mainframes?

By the terminology of that time, a mainframe required a
large room, while a minicomputer could fit in a closet.
Of course the microcomputer hadn't appeared yet then.

Naturally, that terminology doesn't work anymore, since
even the supercomputers of today use microprocessors
and are physically much smaller than the "dinosaurs"
of those days.

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