Aleph Null
Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp.93-96 (January/March 1972)
ISSN 0038-0644
March 1972
Ten years ago, Vyssotsky (V. A. Vyssotsky, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey.) invented something completely different from the usual computer games. Darwin is a game between computer programs as programs. The object is survival; programs may ‘kill’ one another, and may create copies of themselves in unoccupied store.