Darwin is a computer game for programmers developed in 1961 by Bell Labs employees V. A. Vysotsky , Douglas McIlroy and for the IBM 7090 computers , in which several assembler programs called “organisms” were loaded into the computer’s memory . Organisms created by one player (that is, belonging to the same species) had to destroy representatives of another species and occupy living space. The winner was the player whose organisms captured the entire memory.
In the early 1980s, A. K. Dewdney developed a variation of this game called Core War.
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- Aleph Null "Computer recreations: Darwin" , Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 93-96 (January / March 1972)
- McIlroy et al "Darwin, a Game of Survival of the Fittest among Programs"