OXO

For other meanings, see Oxo.

OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) is a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer in 1952. It was written by A.S. (Sandy) Douglas as an illustration for his Ph.D. thesis on human-computer interaction for the University of Cambridge. OXO is the first known (graphical) game to run on a computer. However, the first game to use a cathode ray tube display was a missile simulation game that was patented in 1947–1948.Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent application on January 25, 1947 and [U.S. Patent #2 455 992] issued on December 14, 1948.

The player plays against the computer and output was displayed on the computer's 35×16 pixel cathode ray tube. The source code is short, yet plays a perfect game of noughts and crosses. OXO did not have widespread popularity because the EDSAC was a computer unique to Cambridge.

Notes

External links

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.