A game between assembler programs in a machine or machine simulator,
where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting
it. Popularized in the 1980s by A. K. Dewdney's column in Scientific
American magazine, but described in Software Practice And Experience
a decade earlier. The game was actually devised and played by Victor
Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Doug McIlroy in the early 1960s
(Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but
was not involved). Their original game was called `Darwin' and ran on
a IBM 7090 at Bell Labs. See {core}. For information on the modern
game, do a web search for the `rec.games.corewar FAQ' or surf to the
King Of The Hill site.
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