Re: [SWCollect] Zork question

2004-05-06 Thread C.E. Forman
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.

Re: [SWCollect] Zork question

2004-05-05 Thread Peter Olafson
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

Re: [SWCollect] Zork question

2004-05-05 Thread Peter Olafson
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

Re: [SWCollect] Zork question

2004-05-05 Thread Marco Thorek
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

Re: [SWCollect] Zork question

2004-05-05 Thread Marco Thorek
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