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Core War - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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Core war is a programming combat game, where players make MIPS-like assembly programs to fight eachother for control over a virtual system.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago

It’s not really MIPS-like, predating that architecture and being modelled on CISC architectures (though greatly simplified)