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Thanks for the nice story! Another thing I liked about the ADVENT FORTRAN code is it would detect if its static tables were initialized or not. If not, it would initialize the statics, and then write the executable out overwriting the executable. Then, the next time it ran, it was already initialized! I used this trick in my editor in 80s. It didn't have a configuration file, one just set ones configuration in the ed…
Gosling Emacs used "unexec.c" by Spencer W Thomas (1982): https://github.com/bobbae/gosling-emacs/blob/master/unexec.c There was a FORTRAN version of ZORK (aka DUNGEON) by Bob Supnik at DEC, which was limited in some ways compared to the MDL version, but also had a "GDT" debug mode where you could inspect and control things like the thief and the troll and the cyclops and the robot. I think you could tell them to per…
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