User:CompGamePioneer

I am Steve Russell. I've been a computer programmer and software engineer for a long time.

I am probably best known as the writer of part of Spacewar!, a game, first demonstrated on a DEC PDP-1 computer display at MIT in 1961, and finsihed and made generally available in the spring of 1962.

I also wrote the first 2 versions of the Lisp interpreter in 1958 and 1959.

The reason I registered on Wikipedia was to attempt to get some incorrect information in my biography entry corrected. So far, I haven't figured out how I can do this in accordance with the Wikipedia guidelines. See the discussion on the "Steve Russell" entry.

CompGamePioneer 23:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Steve. Been a long time. I met you at Ramada Inns Corp. You inspired John to write his multiplayer space war game. I was working on the communications protocall then.

My SLIC compiler compiler was used to write a COBOL cross compiler, runing on the DEC-10 producing code for the TI990 reservation/fromt-office computers. A lot of my compiler compiler was based on LISP 2.

Its way late but I dought anybody would have complained about you making corrections to your artical. Steamerandy (talk) 02:31, 26 August 2019 (UTC)