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Furey: http -> https for nethack.org. nethack.org emits red-letter warning for http.

2024-06-21T00:08:13Z

http -> https for nethack.org. nethack.org emits red-letter warning for http.

Aximili: Add wikipedia link

2020-01-27T06:59:59Z

Add wikipedia link

Aximili: Changes to categories

2020-01-27T05:44:09Z

Changes to categories

Bulwersator: delinkify operating system (Special:WantedPages)

2013-05-04T21:49:56Z

delinkify operating system (Special:WantedPages)

195.113.65.219: Two small errors.

2009-01-22T00:27:32Z

Two small errors.

Kernigh: NetHack is more portable than NetBSD.

2006-12-02T19:39:12Z

NetHack is more portable than NetBSD.

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'''NetBSD''' is an [[operating system]] that runs on many platforms. [[NetHack]] is a computer game that runs on many platforms. (You can install NetHack above NetBSD by use of [[pkgsrc]].) There are other similarities too.

* ''"Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat systems; many of us have never met each other in person. ... We believe that the Internet was an enabling technology that made NetBSD possible. The 'Net' in our name was thus chosen as a tribute to the Internet."''
** [http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/about.html About the NetBSD Project]
* ''"Why is it called NetHack if it's a single player game that doesn't use the net? The 'Net' in NetHack refers to the way the developers, many of whom have never met in person, organize the work on the program."''
** [http://www.nethack.org/common/info.html NetHack 3.4.3: Information]

So the "Net" of both NetBSD and NetHack refers to that network, the Internet. This tribute may seem strange because today, but that NetBSD and NetHack predate nearly all of today's projects. NetBSD 0.8 appeared at 20 April 1993, while [[NetHack 1.3d]] appeared on Usenet back in July 1987. The prefix "Net" also distinguishes these projects from the original [[Net]] and [[Hack]]. The most important difference in organisation is that NetBSD has many developers and contributors, but NetHack has only its secretive [[DevTeam]].

== Hardware ports ==
'''NetBSD''' comprises binaries for 53 "machine architectures" spanning 17 different types of processors. It might be interesting to see if NetHack, built through [[pkgsrc]], can run on all of them. (You should instead be working toward [[ascension]] of all of the race-role-gender-alignment combinations.) If you lack hardware, you might try [http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/emulators.html running NetBSD on emulated hardware]. Note that the hardware list includes ancient hardware like the [http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sun2/ sun2] and embedded devices with limitted processing power like [http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/evbarm/ ARM evaluation boards]. These are still powerful enough to run [http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html Unix-like] systems, though.

NetHack has been on hardware that NetBSD could never support. An Intel 286, for example, is too weak for a Unix-like operating system, but can run old versions of [[NetHack]] with [[MS-DOS]]. NetBSD may be a very portable OS, but NetHack is a very portable game; NetHack is more portable than NetBSD.

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	NetHack has been on hardware that NetBSD could never support. An Intel 286, for example, is too weak for a Unix-like operating system, but can run old versions of [[NetHack]] with [[MS-DOS]]. NetBSD may be a very portable OS, but NetHack is a very portable game; NetHack is more portable than NetBSD.		NetHack has been on hardware that NetBSD could never support. An Intel 286, for example, is too weak for a Unix-like operating system, but can run old versions of [[NetHack]] with [[MS-DOS]]. NetBSD may be a very portable OS, but NetHack is a very portable game; NetHack is more portable than NetBSD.

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	* ''"Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat systems; many of us have never met each other in person. ... We believe that the Internet was an enabling technology that made NetBSD possible. The 'Net' in our name was thus chosen as a tribute to the Internet."''		* ''"Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat systems; many of us have never met each other in person. ... We believe that the Internet was an enabling technology that made NetBSD possible. The 'Net' in our name was thus chosen as a tribute to the Internet."''

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 ** [http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/about.html About the NetBSD Project]
 * ''"Why is it called NetHack if it's a single player game that doesn't use the net? The 'Net' in NetHack refers to the way the developers, many of whom have never met in person, organize the work on the program."''
-** [http://www.nethack.org/common/info.html NetHack 3.4.3: Information]
+** [https://www.nethack.org/common/info.html NetHack 3.4.3: Information]
 So the "Net" of both NetBSD and NetHack refers to that network, the Internet. This tribute may seem strange today, but that NetBSD and NetHack predate nearly all of today's projects. NetBSD 0.8 appeared at 20 April 1993, while [[NetHack 1.3d]] appeared on Usenet back in July 1987. The prefix "Net" also distinguishes these projects from the original [[BSD]] and [[Hack]]. The most important difference in organisation is that NetBSD has many developers and contributors, but NetHack has only its secretive [[DevTeam]].