[game_preservation] Sumer Game - Merrill or Dyment?

[Devin Monnens]

The famous game Hammurabi is credited to Richard Merrill, the creator of
FOCAL. It was one of the first pieces of software made for FOCAL, and it was
designed in 1968. However, the DECUS DEC Catalogues clearly list "The Sumer
Game" as being designed by Doug Dyment of DEC Canada. Clearly these two
accounts can't be correct.

http://pdp-8.org/scans/highgate/decus/decus_lib_73a.pdf - Scroll to Page 90,
FOCAL-5

The only Doug Dyment I see on the web is the travel speaker (who oddly
enough grew up in Canada...but got a degree in computer science in 1979).

I think finding the DECUS program FOCAL-5 would help alleviate things (as
would contacting either of these two). Unfortunately, it's about as easy as
finding a first folio of Shakespeare, as nobody seems to have saved these
documents.

The more I read, the more I am doubting traditional histories.
Unfortunately, I have to speak about this on Wednesday, so I may just have
to tell them 'I don't know'. :P

-- 
Devin Monnens
www.deserthat.com

The sleep of Reason produces monsters.
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