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Core War

Created Saturday 23 September 2017

History

Created by Robert Morris Sr. (NSA Chief Scientist), Victor Vyssotsky and Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs)
Originally called Darwin, ran on a PDP-1 in Bell Labs

Redcode Assembly Language

10 instructions in original set, 14 in 1999

Memory Array Redcode Simulator (MARS)

Types of programs

Imp

Moves 1 address forward each cycle

Sources

• Books:The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense by Peter Szor
• http://www.corewar.info/

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