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Consistent use of 'advent' to avoid collision with BSD Games.

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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 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
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
@ -66,12 +66,13 @@ he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement.
== Nomenclature ==
This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
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.
links back. I have reverted to "Advent" to avoid a name collision
with the BSD Games version.
== Sources ==