> From: Lars Brinkhoff > it was AI rather than MC. As I'm sure you know, AI had the Rubin 10-11 > interface
Really? (I expect you're correct, mind.) I just remember one day MC wasn't running as normal, and I was told it was because CHEOPS was in some tournament, and MC had been taken offline so that it could focus on the game. So I assumed CHEOPS was connected to MC (and had indeed wondered why/how, when I wrote that message, with the Rubin interface being on AI). > communicating over Chaosnet. At least, that's how I interpret the code > in MacHack. Again, probably right. It was pretty early, but I guess the CHAOSNET was already running then. My guess is that AI didn't do much but act as a communication node between CHEOPS and MC, for that. > There is some debate over whether the CONS had a display of its own, and > if so whether it could draw to a bitmap. Do you remember? Not explicily, but I would tend to guess 'no'; I would tend to guess that they were still in the mindset where it was a specialized co-processor, like CHEOPS. I certainly don't recall a 'CONS display' in the room where the first CADR display was; but that doesn't mean much. (Actually, I'm not positive there was a CADR display in there the night I recall Moon trying to get it running; for sure a Knight TV console, and he may have been using it to run something on it to poke at the CADR.) > they have a hard time pinpointing a birthdate for the CADR. Do you have > a recollection when, even what year, the first boot attempt was? Sorry, no; it only stuck in my memory because I was later taken at having beeen there for the early CADR work; I think that night I only barely knew what a CADR was. (I was kind of amused that Moon's audience that night was someone from LCS... :-) I mean, it was pretty early, but I have no idea of even what year it was. Noel