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Likely - "Klondike" is the technically-correct name for the game popularly known as "Solitaire". Probably it was called Klondike originally but packaged as Solitaire by a PM on the Windows 2.1 team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)

But this klond.c is not the original source, judging by the inclusion of comments referencing Win 3.1

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Where are you seeing that Solitaire was bundled in Windows 2.1? Both the wiki page you reference and the Wes Cherry's linked comment both suggest that it was originally included in 3.0.

That's what Wes wrote on Reddit: "A little clarification on Solitaire history. I wrote it for Windows 2.1 in my own time while an intern at Microsoft during the summer of 1988". It may have been a typo.

EDIT: re-reading I see that he later on says it was eventually bundled in 3.0. So he wrote it for 2.1 and it didn't get picked up until 3.0. In either case, source referencing 3.1 in a comment is clearly not the original intern-developed source from 1988, although it's likely pretty close.

I wonder if you've shed a little light on some dishonesty here.

What if Wes, the intern, wrote Solitaire for Win2.1, then it got redone for Win3.1 et al. by someone else? That makes all of this somewhat morally underhanded.

I thought I'd ask here. https://www.reddit.com/comments/3zfadv//cyntkus

Of course, I'm incredibly late, so it might never be seen, but who knows.

I'm pretty sure that his name appeared in the credits in Solitaire at least through Windows 2000. I say this because my last name is Cherry and I noticed when I was a kid that Solitaire was credited to someone with the same last name as me. Without Wikipedia etc I doubt there's anywhere else I could have come across that info.

Oh, okay. I'll have to check that sometime, thanks! Indicates messy retro-setup-to-be in garage

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