A game … A name …
Bolo is a video game created for the BBC Micro computer by Stuart Cheshire in 1987, and later ported to the Macintosh in its most popular incarnation. It is a networked multiplayer game that simulates a tank battlefield. It was one of the earliest simultaneous multiplayer networked games.
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that his Indian wife inspired the name. As Cheshire noted in his original documentation for the game, “Bolo is the Hindi word for communication. Bolo is about computers communicating on the network, and more important about humans communicating with each other, as they argue, negotiate, form alliances, agree strategies, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(1987_video_game)
And so for day 2810
22.08.2014