Re: Origin of V8?


13 Nov 1995 23:15:02 GMT

Darren Austin (dood@bonk.sun.com) mentioned on 11 Nov 95 21:08:37 in rec.arts.int-fiction that::
> Hi all,

> With all this talk about V8 inform games, I was wondering who
> developed the V8 format? I was under the impression that Infocom
> only got as far as V6 for some of their later graphic games.
> Where did V8 (and V7 for that matter) come from? Just curious.

Graham Nelson "invented" it, although it simply changes the way
packed addresses are written and seems a logical extension. When
you're a compiler writer, you can do these things... ;^)

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