Advanced Terminal System Main Control Processor, Logic Manual

摘要

The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) has supported a program to develop an Advanced Terminal System (ATS) to provide a low-cost integrated system to improve the effective production and delivery of computer assisted instruction (CAI). The ATS has multiple modes including PLATO V emulation, stand-alone system under the support of the CAI language, PILOT, and operation as a standard ASCII, contains full PLATO commensurate graphics locally, and can support the uploading/downloading of programs/data to/from a host system. These capabilities permit the ATS to augment the available CAI system without adding overhead to those systems. The Master Control Processor Logic Manual presents the software design used to implement the ATS at both an overview and detailed module level.