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CYBIS Project Overview

Overview

Goal Configuration

From the Operation and Usage Guide

Design Goals

The design goals of CR2 are:

  • To establish an environment that would support the original TUTOR commands and their extensions following the transition to VCampus.
  • To support an enriched set of TUTOR commands enabling some lessons from NovaNET to be more easily back-ported into the DtCyber/NOS environment for conservation.
  • To create advanced container management tools which bring more modern tooling to the hands of the hobbyist developer.
  • To capture and create systems-level documentation that was ordinarily acquired through apprenticeship with the systems programming team.

Objectives

The objectives of this project are to enable contemporary developers to be able to support PLATO in perpetuity. Our aim to to prevent it from becoming “bits on the floor” over time. This requires that a considerable amount of esoteric information needs to be captured and this site endeavors to accomplish that goal.

  1. First, (and foremost) to CONSERVE the work that's been done for future generations.
  2. … To define a stable baseline development environment
  3. … To support the ongoing maintenance of the system using enhanced in-built build tools.
  4. … To enable transfer of objects (PLATO files of any kind) between systems (NovaNET, CYBIS, PLATO or any generation of the PLATO decendents)
  5. … To enable ANY developer to become an operator of a community of their own convening: Hobbyists, Gamers, or any other type of community they envision.

Study Guide Contents

This section is constructed in a “Book” format. The order in which you should explore further is as follows:

  1. Study The Desktop CYBER Configuration Files
  2. Study The NOS Configuration Files
  3. Study The PLATO Configuration File for CYBIS R2
    1. File PCGUIDE (PLATO Configuration Guide)
    2. Notes about System Identifiers
  4. Perform the build of PLATO Installation (dtcyber)
  5. Learn about the RETRO1 Version of PTERM (V7)
    1. Familiarize yourself with the File S0ASCERS (ASCII Terminal Spec)
  6. Learn about the CDC Disk IO Transfer Utility
  7. Learn about the NOS Tape Transfer Utility
  8. Study
    1. File INSTALL (PLATO Installation Guide)
      Although this guide has been superceded by this procedure, there are some important discussions and details in this document that will prove to be useful in the subsequent stages of operation.
    2. File IOPGUIDE (Internal Ops Guide)
    3. File OPGUIDE (PLATO Operations Guide)
    4. File LINKDOC (PLATO Link Facility)
    5. File CYBISLIB (CYBIS Library Subroutines)

Alphabetical Index