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== Earliest versions ==

The earliest published description of Redcode is found in the [http://wwwusers.ociwobs.carnegiescience.edu/~birk/COREWAR/DOCS/guide2red.txt ''Core War Guidelines''] published in March 1984 by [[A. K. Dewdney]] and [[D. G. Jones]]. The language as described here differs significantly from the later variants, being in many ways closer to actual assembly languages of the era.

The Guidelines describe a set of only eight instructions, but it is stated that the earliest implementations of Redcode by Dewdney and Jones had a larger instruction set. Indeed, the language described in the Guidelines is best seen more as a basis for other developers to expand on than as an actual standard.