[ih] byte order, was Octal vs Hex, not Re: Dotted decimal notation

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

in a trip down memory lane vis-a-vis "The Imlac PDS-1" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imlac_PDS-1
yours truly chances to note at the bottom under Applications

"... *Mazewar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War>*, the first online
multiplayer computer game, was created on a pair of PDS-1's. Later, up to 8
players ran on PDS-1 stations or other terminals networked to the MIT
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology> host
PDP-10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10> computer running the Mazewar
AI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_artificial_intelligence> program.[11]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imlac_PDS-1#cite_note-11> Mazewar games
between MIT and Stanford were a major data load on the early Arpanet
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET>."


the MIT PDP-10 reference must be of Al Vezza's MIT-DM host, but yours truly
is kinda perplexed over the last sentence of:

"Mazewar games between MIT and Stanford were a major data load on the
early Arpanet."

wondering just what host at Stanford this must have been -- if not SU-AI --
which yours truly recalls had a couple of Imlac's -- one of which was at
JMC's (John McCarthy's) house and other at RWW's (Richard Weyhrauch's)
house -- both of which were connected with 1200 baud leased lines... hardly
big enough to "contribute" to "a major data load on the early Arpanet." --
most especially given that JMC &/ RWW didn't seem to be the mazewar playing
kinda folks...

anyone got more "history" here on this...¿¿¿

geoff

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:22 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 31-Dec-20 11:07, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > On 12/30/2020 11:54 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> >>
> >> The competing 16-bit design team (Edson DeCastro et al) likewise came
> >> from a 12-bit processor (PDP-8).
>
> The Imlac PDS-1 was also very much a 16-bit PDP-8, also (I believe)
> designed
> by ex-DEC people.
>
>     Brian Carpenter
>
> >
> >
> > was the core of that team four people? ...
> >
> >
> > d/
> >
> > ps. and just to add to the whimsy, the three-person set also reminds me
> > of the Magical Number Seven paper. (Nevermind that it's a great read.)
> >
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