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Re:Towards improved C++ support for games, graphics, real-ti... by panic on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:43AM (#9392746)
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.
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Re:Towards improved C++ support for games, graphics, real-ti... by yoklov on Friday April 17, 2015 @08:17AM (#9393794)
Is this true? That's a great piece of trivia if so.
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Re:Towards improved C++ support for games, graphics, real-ti... by panic on Friday April 17, 2015 @07:36PM (#9397778)
Yeah, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
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