loic@axis.fr (Loic Dachary) (06/21/88)
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 ?
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (07/01/88)
I would suspect the later. There was a program to print planet and sattelite orbits, but I believe it was called azel. I left my V6 manual at home. -Ron