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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SPACEWAR</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="spaceship-operator.html" title="spaceship operator"/><link rel="next" href="spaghetti-code.html" title="spaghetti code"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SPACEWAR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spaceship-operator.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spaghetti-code.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SPACEWAR"/><dt xmlns="" id="SPACEWAR"><b>SPACEWAR</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E. E. “<span class="quote">Doc</span>”
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Smith's <i class="citetitle">Lensman</i> books, in which two spaceships duel
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around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through
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hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1962.
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In 1968-69, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in
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his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became
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<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was
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commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are still
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<a href="../F/feep.html"><i class="glossterm">feep</i></a>ing in video arcades everywhere.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spaceship-operator.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spaghetti-code.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">spaceship operator </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> spaghetti code</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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