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@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@ of hacker folklore.
 The very first version was released by Crowther in 1976, in FORTRAN on
 the PDP-10 at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. (Crowther was at the time
 writing what we could now call firmware for the earliest ARPANET
 The very first version was released by Crowther in 1976, in FORTRAN on
 the PDP-10 at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. (Crowther was at the time
 writing what we could now call firmware for the earliest ARPANET

-routers) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in
+routers.) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in

 Kentucy, lacking the D&D-like elements now associated with the game.
 
 Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was
 was released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1976
 Kentucy, lacking the D&D-like elements now associated with the game.
 
 Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was
 was released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1976

-(some sources, apparentl erroneously, say 1977). That version is
+(some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1977). That version is

 sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
 
 Between 1976 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work
 sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
 
 Between 1976 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work

-intermittently on the game. This main line of development cuminated
+intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated

 in the 1995 release of Adventure 2.5, also known as 430-point Adventure
 
 The earliest port to C was by Jim Gillogly under an early Unix running
 in the 1995 release of Adventure 2.5, also known as 430-point Adventure
 
 The earliest port to C was by Jim Gillogly under an early Unix running


@@ -41,13 +41,14 @@ completely disambiguating.
 
 Many versions are collected at The Interactive Fiction Archive
 <<IFA>>. Same articles at <<DA>> are a narrative of the history of the
 
 Many versions are collected at The Interactive Fiction Archive
 <<IFA>>. Same articles at <<DA>> are a narrative of the history of the

-game. There is some divergence of dates between these; I have
-preferred <<IF>> because its chronology makes better internal sense.
+game. There is some divergence of dates between these; pending
+correction from the authors, I have preferred <<IF>> because its
+chronology makes better internal sense.

 
 

-Future versions of this document may attempt to untangle some of that
-history. For now, it will suffice to explain the chain of provenance
-that led from the original Adventure to the version distributed with
-this document.
+Future versions of this document may attempt to untangle some of the
+non-mainline history. For now, it will suffice to explain the chain of
+provenance that led from the original Adventure to the version
+distributed with this document.

 
 The original 350-point ADVENT on the PDP-10 had been one of my
 formative experiences as a fledgling hacker in 1976-77. Forty years
 
 The original 350-point ADVENT on the PDP-10 had been one of my
 formative experiences as a fledgling hacker in 1976-77. Forty years


@@ -63,6 +64,16 @@ contained a rights reservation by Don Woods and that was it.
 I wrote to Don asking permission to release 2.5 under 2-clause BSD;
 he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement.
 
 I wrote to Don asking permission to release 2.5 under 2-clause BSD;
 he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement.
 

+== Nomenclature ==
+
+This project is called "Open Advent" because it's not at all clear
+to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing
+collisions. Various of the non-mainline versions have claimed to be
+versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and for all I know higher than that.  It seems
+best just to start a new numbering series while acknowledging the
+links back.  I have reverted to "Advent" to avoid a name collision
+with the BSD Games version.
+

 == Sources ==
 
 [bibliography]
 == Sources ==
 
 [bibliography]