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Core Wars
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. A game between assembler programs in a machine or machine simulator,
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where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting it.
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Popularized in the 1980s by A. K. Dewdney's column in Scientific American
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magazine, but described in Software Practice And Experience a decade
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earlier. The game was actually devised and played by Victor Vyssotsky,
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Robert Morris Sr., and Doug McIlroy in the early 1960s (Dennis Ritchie is
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sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but was not involved). Their
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original game was called Darwin and ran on a IBM 7090 at Bell Labs. See
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core. For information on the modern game, do a web search for the
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rec.games.corewar FAQ or surf to the King Of The Hill site.
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