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A MUD is a text adventure game where multiple users can interact with each other. | A MUD is a text adventure game where multiple users can interact with each other. | ||
| − | The first was written in [[BCPL]] on the University of Essex [[PDP-10]]. | + | The first was written in [[BCPL]] on the University of Essex [[PDP-10]] in 1978. |
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| + | Other influential implementations were AberMUD and LPmud. The former was written in B for a Honeywell mainframe at the University of Aberystwyth. Programmers include Alan Cox of later Linux fame. LPmud was written in C by Lars Pensjö at Chalmers Technical Institute. It features a built-in C-like object oriented extension language, LPC. | ||
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Revision as of 16:56, 10 January 2019
A MUD is a text adventure game where multiple users can interact with each other.
The first was written in BCPL on the University of Essex PDP-10 in 1978.
Other influential implementations were AberMUD and LPmud. The former was written in B for a Honeywell mainframe at the University of Aberystwyth. Programmers include Alan Cox of later Linux fame. LPmud was written in C by Lars Pensjö at Chalmers Technical Institute. It features a built-in C-like object oriented extension language, LPC.
