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@@ -23,15 +23,16 @@ 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
 at the Rand Corporation in 1977; this version was later, and still is,
-included in the BSD Games collection.  It was blessed by Crowther and
-Woods and briefly marketed in 1981 under the name "The Original
-Adventure".
+included in the BSD Games collection.  I have it from Don Woods directly
+that "[Jim Gillogly] was one of the first to request and receive a copy 
+of the source" but that Woods did not actually know of the BSD port
+until I briefed him on it in 2017.  (This contradicts some implications
+in third-party histories.)
 
 Many other people ported and extended the game in various directions.
 A notable version was the first game shipped for the IBM Personal
-Computer in 1981; this, for which neither Crowther nor Woods nor
-Gillogly were paid royalties, what "The Original" was competing
-against.
+Computer in 1981; neither Crowther nor Woods nor Gillogly were paid
+royalties.
 
 The history of these non-mainline versions is complex and
 murky. Functional differences were generally marked by changes in the