PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), also known as Project Plato and Project PLATO, was the first generalized computer-assisted...
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FreeCell (category PLATO (computer system) games)
University of Illinois, in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978. Alfille was able to display easily recognizable graphical...
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up plato, Plato, plató, platô, or Plató in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher. Plato may...
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Empire (1973 video game) (redirect from PLATO Empire (computer game))
Empire is the name of a computer game written for the PLATO system in 1973. It is significant for being quite probably the first networked multiplayer...
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Dnd (1975 video game) (redirect from Dnd (PLATO video game))
released in 1974. dnd was written in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO system by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood at Southern Illinois University in 1974...
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Spasim (category PLATO (computer system) games)
for the PLATO computer network and released in March 1974. The game features four teams of eight players, each controlling a planetary system, where each...
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Moria (1975 video game) (redirect from PLATO Moria)
Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game developed for the PLATO system beginning around 1975 by Kevet Duncombe and Jim Battin. In the game,...
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Avatar (1979 video game) (redirect from Avatar (PLATO system video game))
interactive role-playing video game, created on the University of Illinois' PLATO system in the late 1970s. It has graphics for navigating through a dungeon and...
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the Beast." The only remote PLATO III terminal was at Springfield High School. It was connected to the PLATO III system by a video connection and a separate...
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Airfight (category PLATO (computer system) games)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Control Data Corporation (CDC) PLATO system in the early 1970s. The software was the first ever 3D flight simulator...
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Pedit5 (category PLATO (computer system) games)
video game developed for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer network by Rusty Rutherford. In it, the player controls a character...
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was established in Frankfurt. 1976 The PLATO computer-based education system was announced. 1977 PLATO Systems were implemented at all United States Institutes...
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Donald Bitzer (category Computer-based Education Research Laboratory)
several patents in numerous areas, while the creation of the PLATO computer system, the first system to combine graphics and touch-sensitive screens, is the...
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system since 1995, which has greatly contributed to the original game's popularity. Paul Alfille implemented Freecell in 1978 for the PLATO computer system...
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Seymour Cray (redirect from Cray Computer Corporation)
electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research...
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Bitzer, H. Gene Slottow, and graduate student Robert Willson for the PLATO computer system. The goal was to create a display that had inherent memory to reduce...
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six-characters long. Both support linked files. PLATO (computer system) Timeline of operating systems Time-sharing system evolution Walden, David; Van Vleck, Tom...
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Another CDC project that Norris championed was the PLATO system, an online teaching and instruction system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign...
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CDC Cyber (category Control Data Corporation mainframe computers)
Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically intensive computing...
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Panther (1975 video game) (redirect from Panther (computer game))
The game was developed for the multi-user interactive computer-based education PLATO system and programmed in the TUTOR programming language and utilized...
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Control Data Corporation (redirect from Control Data Systems)
included its promotion of the PLATO computer-aided learning system, which ran on Cyber hardware and incorporated many early computer interface innovations including...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Demon (computer software))
In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon (/ˈdiːmən/ or /ˈdeɪmən/) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being...
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CDC 1604 (category Control Data Corporation mainframe computers)
67–73. doi:10.1177/016555158300600205. S2CID 61928952. "PLATO - computer-based education system". "CDC 160A Languages enabled" (PDF). "Sam Schmitt | Database...
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CDC STAR-100 (category Control Data Corporation mainframe computers)
Langley LARGE COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NEW ARCHITECTURES, T. Bloch, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1978 A Proposal to the Atlas Computer Laboratory for...
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CDC 8600 (category Control Data Corporation mainframe computers)
intended to be about 10 times as fast as the 7600, already the fastest computer on the market. The design was essentially four 7600's, packed into a very...
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ETA10 (redirect from EOS (operating system))
considered state-of-the-art, the overall package is an "extremely immature computer system," the panel concluded. The late delivery and operating problems contributed...
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Time-sharing (redirect from Time share computer system)
1964. Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) began service in March 1964. Throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s, computer terminals were multiplexed onto...
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Project Xanadu (category Computer-related introductions in 1960)
hypermedia systems which are similar, including HyperWave (or Hyper-G) and: Microcosm (hypermedia system) IBM Notes (descendant of Notes on PLATO (computer system)...
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Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...
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1986 there was no operating system for the machines. Programs had to be loaded one at a time from an attached Apollo Computer workstation, run, and then...
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