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Re: Questions about some modules
- To: Colin Howell <chowell at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Questions about some modules
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:21:18 -0700
- CC: Jim Kingdon <kingdon at panix dot com>, Laurent Duperval <lduperval at microcelli5 dot com>, xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <987604133.12053.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <200104181718.NAA25918@panix2.panix.com> <200104182018.NAA22024@southpole.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com
Colin Howell wrote:
>
> [...] Isn't the name "xconq" derived from Conquer?
No. I started out calling the curses game "conquest" because it was
an imitation of "empire", then the X10 port was "xconquest" briefly
before I shortened it to Xconq. Conquer was contemporaneous, and I
vaguely remember it being around, but never looked at it much myself.
Stan