Hunt the Wumpus

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Hunt the Wumpus

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One of the first was Hunt the Wumpus, which appeared in several versions for different systems. Kenneth Thompson, a researcher at Bell Laboratories, wrote one version in C for the UNIX operating system, which he had codeveloped; Gregory Yob wrote another in BASIC that was distributed widely through listings in…
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One of the first was Hunt the Wumpus, which appeared in several versions for different systems. Kenneth Thompson, a researcher at Bell Laboratories, wrote one version in C for the UNIX operating system, which he had codeveloped; Gregory Yob wrote another in BASIC that was distributed widely through listings in…
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