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Advent : (noun)
1: arrival that has been awaited (especially of something
momentous); "the advent of the computer" [syn: coming]
2: the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
[syn: Advent]
3: (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for
the Last Judgment [syn: Second Coming, Second Coming of
Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Advent : \Ad`vent\, n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf.
F. avent. See Advene.]
1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before
Christmas.
Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of
Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of
St. Andrew (Now. 30). --Shipley.
2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Death's dreadful advent. --Young.
Expecting still his advent home. --Tennyson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Advent :
/ad'vent/ The prototypical computer Adventure game,
first implemented by Will Crowther for a CDC computer
(probably the 6600?) as an attempt at computer-refereed
fantasy gaming.
ADVENT was ported to the PDP-10, and expanded to the
350-point Classic puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of
the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). The
game is now better known as Adventure, but the TOPS-10
operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. All
the versions since are based on the SAIL port.
David Long of the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business Computing Facility (which had two of the four
DEC20s on campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s) was
responsible for expanding the cave in a number of ways, and
pushing the point count up to 500, then 501 points. Most of
his work was in the data files, but he made some changes to
the parser as well.
This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected
in text adventure games, and popularised several tag lines
that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green
fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun
X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
"You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different."
The "magic words" xyzzy and plugh also derive from this
game.
Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the
Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a
"Colossal Cave" and a "Bedquilt" as in the game, and the "Y2"
that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a
secondary entrance.
See also vadding.
[Was the original written in Fortran?]
[{Jargon File]
(1996-04-01)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Advent, WV
Zip code(s): 25231
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Advent : /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first
designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt
at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented
game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the
authors of INTERCAL.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave
{TOPS-10">Adventure, but the {TOPS-10 operating system permitted only
six-letter filenames. See also vadding, Zork, and Infocom.
This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in
text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become
fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I
see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little
passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all
different." The `magic words' xyzzy and plugh also derive from this
game.
Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth &
Flint Ridge cave system; it actually _has_ a `Colossal Cave' and a
`Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers'
jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.
ADVENT sources are available for FTP at
`ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z'.
There is a Colossal Cave Adventure page
(http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/index.html).
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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