I used WYLBUR (or maybe SuperWYLBUR) in the late 1970s at a time-sharing company in the Washington DC area. I do not remember the name of the company.
Lloyd --- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Kington <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Kington <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 8:10 AM > >>I suspect he may have meant > ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to > >>WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about > it. > > > >Did anyone use it other than Stanford? > > WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's > when I was learning to program. Much better for an imperfect > typist like me than the ancient keypunch machines that was > the other alternative. I never heard of it being used in a > commercial environment though. > > Regards, > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, > send email to [email protected] > with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
