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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Core Wars</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="core-leak.html" title="core leak"/><link rel="next" href="cosmic-rays.html" title="cosmic rays"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Core Wars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="core-leak.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cosmic-rays.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Core-Wars"/><dt xmlns="" id="Core-Wars"><b>Core Wars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A game between <span class="firstterm">assembler</span>
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programs in a machine or machine simulator, where the objective is to kill
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your opponent's program by overwriting it. Popularized in the 1980s by
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A. K. Dewdney's column in <i class="citetitle">Scientific American</i>
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magazine, but described in <i class="citetitle">Software Practice And
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Experience</i> a decade earlier. The game was actually devised and
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played by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Doug McIlroy in the
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early 1960s (Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author,
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but was not involved). Their original game was called ‘Darwin’
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and ran on a IBM 7090 at Bell Labs. See <a href="core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>. For
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information on the modern game, do a web search for the
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‘rec.games.corewar FAQ’ or surf to the <a href="http://www.koth.org/" target="_top"> King Of The Hill</a> site.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="core-leak.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cosmic-rays.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">core leak </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cosmic rays</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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