To my knowledge Zork was a word used by computer geeks at MIT for just
about everything, as in give me that zork over there.
That's what I've read in every article about the original mainframe Zork
(Dungeon). It's possible the MIT term derived from the Brunner novel.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Zork was named after a mid-70's poetry
book called 'A Hastily Thrown Together Bit of Zork'. Can't seem to find where I
read it with google. Does anyone know if this is true? Does anyone have the
book? Is it also true that only 150 copies of the book
I don't know if it's true, but here's some info that may help.
"Hastily ..." waswritten by John Brunner, a well-regarded scienece fiction author, and published in 1974, Nice bio at http://members.aol.com/tishede/brunner.htm.
PeterHoward Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to remember
While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
"Originally, 'Zork' was a name that any unfinished program around MIT got. When the game was finished the implementors called it Dungeon, but people went on
To my knowledge Zork was a word used by computer geeks at MIT for just
about everything, as in give me that zork over there.
Its origins are lost in time; it may have been the book you mentioned,
but its not the only place the word zork was used. For example,
Mattel, I think, had toys named
To my knowledge Dungeon was dropped out of fear that the people behind
Dungeons Dragons might claim a TM conflict.
Marco
Peter Olafson schrieb:
While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page
suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
