update year level README files

Move copyright notice to the end.

Add a standard comment about the newly added `README.md` files.

Clean up trailing whitespace.

Fixed a few minor typos.
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1989 marked the "The Sixth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
Copyright (c) 1989, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
Look at the README.md file for the given winner for information
on how to compile the winner and how to run the winning program.
Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does!
You may then wish to look at the Author's comments for even more details.
Instructions for use: Run make to compile entries (it is possible
that on System V or non-unix systems the makefile needs to be
changed). Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs
do, and run them with various inputs. If you want to, look at the
hints files for (minor) spoilers.
changed).
This year, the Grand Prize was given to the most useful program.
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the fact that starting in 1990, compiling entries must result an
executable regular file.
In two other cases, we included System V portable versions of winning
programs. The makefile always uses the portable version of the "Best
The makefile always uses the portable version of the "Best
self modifying program" because there as no loss of functionality in
using it. In the case of the "Best game" winner, however, some
functionality is lost in the portable version and so the makefile uses
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alt.sources. They have been made available on a wide number of Usenet
archive sites such as uunet. The 1989 winners will be published in the
Micro/Systems Journal.
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Copyright (c) 1989, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.