2 Jun
2014
2 Jun
'14
7:22 p.m.
On 06/02/2014 02:33 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 2, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Then Devin should not have headed the list with "Here are all the
machines we've had reports of Spacewar on them:"
On 05/27/2014 04:30 AM, Devin Monnens wrote:
Yes, but a bunch of the other entries in his list also describe
terminals, or terminals plus software. 12. PLATO
PLATO is not a machine. It's software used with a proprietary
terminal, running, in its prime, on CDC 60-bit hardware. PLATO is a large body of software, plus specialized
terminals and
specialized terminal controllers (at least in the earlier versions).
I think I said that.
I suspect that the list is very incomplete. I wonder particularly about
less-known systems. Did Spacewar ever run on Microdata or Varian
hardware, for example?
As far as PLATO on ARPAnet, no I don't think I ever saw that. The web
site cited says: "For nearly ten years, there were more users on PLATO
than there were on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet."
It was my impression that the network used Cybernet, greatly enhanced by
CDC's win in the lawsuit filed against IBM where it acquired SBC. I
believe that Ticketron also used Cybernet, but I'm not certain.
--Chuck