On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:26 -0700, rone wrote: > Ken Koester writes: > Mark A. Mandel wrote: > ># ...a twisty maze of little passages, all the same. [Tlt 159] ...all alike. > >Mark-Jason Dominus points out that this line originated in Adventure and > >was taken up by the later game Zork. > I don't remember the date for Adventure, but this was a common line in a > dungeon-ish game on PLATO out of CERL in '78 or so, and was not original > to the author even then. > > http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ADVENT.html Boy, _that_ brought back memories! So when are you going to reimburse me for the half hour that just vanished into limbo? -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/