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history/Credits: aeb's Hack

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Give an implied explanation for the seemingly odd copyright info in
the source files and the run-time startup banner.

The extra Hack version number, the release dates, and the newsgroup
creation are from
 https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html
which is the "Brouwer's /Hack/ page at CWI" external link near the
end of Andries Brouwer's Wikipedia page.
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.\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.391 $ $NHDT-Date: 1594377460 2020/07/10 10:37:40 $
.\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.392 $ $NHDT-Date: 1594599425 2020/07/13 00:17:05 $
.\"
.\" This is an excerpt from the 'roff' man page from the 'groff' package.
.\" Guidebook.mn currently does *not* fully adhere to these guidelines.
@@ -5428,11 +5428,19 @@ Main events in the course of the game development are described below:
\fBJay Fenlason\fP wrote the original Hack, with help from
\fBKenny Woodland\fP, \fBMike Thome\fP, and \fBJon Payne\fP.
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\fBAndries Brouwer\fP did a major re-write, transforming Hack into a
very different game, and published (at least) three versions (1.0.1,
1.0.2, and 1.0.3) for
\fBAndries Brouwer\fP did a major re-write while at
Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (now Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica),
transforming Hack into a very different game.
He published the Hack source code for use on
.UX
machines to the Usenet.
systems by posting that to Usenet
newsgroup \fInet.sources\fP (later renamed \fIcomp.sources\fP)
releasing version 1.0 in December of 1984, then versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2,
and finally 1.0.3 in July of 1985.
Usenet newsgroup \fInet.games.hack\fP (later
renamed \fIrec.games.hack\fP, eventually replaced
by \fIrec.games.roguelike.nethack\fP)
was created for discussing it.
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\fBDon G. Kneller\fP ported Hack 1.0.3 to Microsoft C and MS-DOS, producing PC
HACK 1.01e, added support for DEC Rainbow graphics in version 1.03g, and went
@@ -5447,6 +5455,9 @@ incorporating many of the added features, and produced NetHack version 1.4
in 1987.
He then coordinated a cast of thousands in enhancing and debugging
NetHack 1.4 and released NetHack versions 2.2 and 2.3.
Like Hack, they were released by posting their source code to Usenet where
they remained available in various archives accessible
via \fIftp\fP and \fIuucp\fP after expiring from the newsgroup.
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Later, Mike coordinated a major re-write of the game, heading a
team which included \fBKen Arromdee\fP, \fBJean-Christophe Collet\fP,