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SPACEWAR n.
A space-combat simulation game, inspired by
E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two
spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each
other and jumping through hyperspace. This game was first
implemented on the PDP-1 at MIT in 1962. Nine years later, a
descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his
spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became
Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was
commercialized as one of the first video games; descendants are
still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
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