[CrackMonkey] Zork and bringing back the shared community space feel of the big iron Unix

[Don Marti]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:29:37PM -0800, Nickels Moffitt, King of the Low Rollers wrote:

> So the following quotation comes from dmarti's fortune files:

...

> We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as
> supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type
> programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close
> communication. 
>           -- Dennis Ritchie

It's from "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System"
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html

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