[DGD] LPC birthday?

[bart at wotf.org]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:06:50 -0500, Erwin Harte wrote
> Felix A. Croes wrote:
> > bart at wotf.org wrote:
> > 
> >> According to my information, Lars wrote the first version of the lpmud driver
> >> in april 1989, and the first public version was available in the summer
of 1989.
> > 
> > Fast worker.
> > 
> > I guess that must have been a 1.x version.  Though I've never found any
> > source code online that predates LPmud 2.x, I think it had no inheritance
> > and no arrays. 
> > Perhaps the exact date can be tracked down in an old
> > rec.games.mud.* archive.
> 
> We did some digging in Google's usenet archive and think you are off
> by a year.

With regards to the public release, that could well be true. The April 1989
date for the very first version is based on the credits file from the 3.1.2
source.

Bart.
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