@RUTGERS.ARPA:VAF@CMU-CS-C.ARPA (01/21/85)
From: Vince.Fuller@CMU-CS-C.ARPA Indeed, there was a production loosely based on the book "The Adolescence of P-1". It was televised on the "Wonder Works" Public Television show. It looked to be made in Canada and was apparently shot on-location there. I was not very happy with the result - in the original book, P-1's creator was an adult systems programmer who wrote P-1 earlier in his life when in college at the University of Waterloo. In the film version, P-1's writer is given as a high-school kid who is known my the name of "hacker" (no doubt inspired by all of the recent media hype over high-school crackers). The movie version was also remarkably deficient in details and glossed over many aspects of the original book. Still, it was obviously an adaptation of the original. --Vince -------