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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. | ||
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. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 14:56, 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.
