Enter System 1974

Re-Enactment of the 1974 Time Sharing System
that was at the first
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Bruce Guenther Baumgart

Below are Entrances into Javascript running a PDP-10 time sharing system named SYSTEM . DMP [ J17, SYS ] which later became known as WAITS. Re-enacted are console teletype CTY, vector graphics Triple-III, raster terminal Data Disc DD, Lester's Keyboard and the Ralph File System populated with executible files from www.SAILDART.org including GEOMED - LISP - SUDS - PARRY - PUB   and   T_EX .

Entrances

• Demonstration examples for III display
1. GEOMED the Torus example under 1 minute
2. RAID Phil Petit's GUI debugger under 1 minute
3. SUDS Stanford University Drawing System : Foonly Digital Sun Cisco etc
   sorry trivial SUDS runs D to command prompt then crash
4. ARMDPY Richard Paul's arm trajectory animation times out in 15 seconds
• Regression test examples on CTY console teletype
1. Simple Monitor Commands HELLO HELP DAY TIME
2. Raw programming E DE START REENTER SAVE LOAD RUN
3. Login PPPN DIR and logout KJOB
4. More HELP examples
5. A LISP examples
6. User level DDT
7. Executive level EDDT
8. RPG programming - coming soon: all of it !
9. Text editors: SOS • TV • E and then EMACS
10. Digital Equipment Corporation — DEC 36-bit software:
    TECO • MACRO • LOADER • FORTRAN • DDT
11. Games: Chess Checkers Spacewar Adventure
12. Document formating: XIP XAP POX PUB TEX
• Layouts with simulated computer running until waiting for keyboard input.
  1. L1. Tall - only the console teletype CTY
  2. L2. Portrait - III vector display over keyboard
  3. L3. Square - only III vector display
  4. L4. Landscape - both CTY and III with SIM dashboard
  5. L5. Twin Landscape - Landscape plus PDP-10 dashboard and Code Viewer
  6. L6. Triptych - huge training keyboard with small III square
• Cold Start at step#0 in single step walking mode.

PDP-10 code walking show two terminals (CTY and III) two dashboards (SIM and CPU) and a code viewer. There is no documentation. Hover on Tooltip to pop up a cheatsheet. The Code Viewer panels are on the left of the double landscape. Resize your window to see all six panels. Hit single-step 's' hundreds of times to watch the PDP-10 code execute at a walk.

Prerequistes

• For typing on re-enacted terminals, read about Keyboards
• To Reload the simulator page on Chrome, type F5 or Control-Shift-R
• For SAIL shell CLI, See Monitor Commands SAILON#54 by Brian Harvey
• For SAIL system API, See UUO manual SAILON#55 by Marty Frost
• For PDP-10 computer architecture,
  Read the PDF 1968 PDP-10 Reference Manual by Wm. English.
• To get to the Chrome Developer Tool, type F12 or Control-Shift-I
• For Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3, ask your friends or a search engine.
• For SAIL SYSTEM.DMP[J17,SYS] internals: Use the Source Luke !
  read black-n-white code view or the slower loading
  color-highlighted code view with its many anchored cross links.

Taunts

• Do NOT meddle in the affairs of Wizards,
  for they are subtle and quick to anger — Tolkein
• Do NOT enter unless you know Geometry,
  HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Javascript, ECMA6 and PDP10 — Plato
• Abandon ALL hope, Ye who enter here — Dante
• Take Me I'am Yours! — Helliwell

Unimplemented

As of July 2016, DD • LPT • XGP • Quam-color-display • Cart • Scheinman-Blue-n-Gold-Arms • TV-cameras • Vocoder • Audio-I/O • Plotter • Vending-Machine • Spacewar-Buttons • Hand/Eye-Turn-Table • and the VR interactive 3-D model of the building-and-grounds are not yet part of this re-enactment. As well as VR chat bots for BGB, JMC, LES, DWP, PMP, REG and the others.

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updated July 2016
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