* apronym: a word, which as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym ; such as PLATO for " Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching " alluding to Plato, the philosopher and teacher

PLATO ( Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations ) was the first ( ca.

COCONET's bitmap and vector graphics and support for multiple type fonts were inspired by the PLATO system, and the graphics capabilities were based on what was available in the Borland BGI graphics library.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

He implemented the first computerised version of it in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978.

Some features of Rogue existed in earlier games, notably: Adventure ( 1975 ), Dungeon ( 1975 ), DND / Telengard ( 1976 ), Beneath Apple Manor ( 1978 ), and several written for the PLATO system, such as the multi-user games dnd ( 1975 ) and Moria ( 1975 ).

PLATO was remarkably innovative for its time ; the shared memory model of PLATO's TUTOR programming language allowed applications such as real-time chat and multi-user graphical games.

Following a convention established by the PLATO dungeon games Moria, Avatar and Oubliette, it was the first game for home computers to adapt the now-familiar WASD set of keys for moving forward and turning left and right ( the S was not used for movement ; it updated the status display ).

In 1974 they reached an agreement with CDC to allow CDC to sell PLATO in exchange for free machines on which to run it.

COROT is the first spacecraft dedicated to the detection of transiting extrasolar planets, opening the way for more advanced probes such as Kepler and possibly TESS and PLATO.

The first interactive game to feature a boss was dnd, a 1975 role-playing video game for the PLATO system.

Netrek is largely derived from Empire, written for the PLATO mainframe system beginning in 1973.

* Empire ( PLATO ), a 1973 space battle game for the PLATO system

The description of Baker's Game in the " Mathematical Games " column inspired Paul Alfille to create FreeCell and he coding it for the PLATO educational computer system, which ended up becoming more popular than Baker's Game.

Originally, PLATO was built by the University of Illinois and functioned for four decades, offering coursework ( elementary – university ) to UIUC students, local schools, and other universities.

It included a television set for display and a special keyboard for navigating the system's function menus ; PLATO II, in 1961, featured two users at once.

In 1972 a new system named PLATO IV was ready for operation.

A standard Keyboard ( computing ) | keyboard for a PLATO IV terminal, circa 1976.

At this time they were shown parts of the system such as the Show Display application generator for pictures on PLATO ( later translated into a graphics-draw program on the Xerox Star workstation ), and the Charset Editor for " painting " new characters ( later translated into a " Doodle " program at PARC ), and the Term Talk and Monitor Mode communications program.

The PLATO project, initiated at the University of Illinois in 1960, is an important landmark in the early development of CALL ( Marty 1981 ).

Netrek is essentially a greatly expanded version of Empire, a multi-user space combat game that ran on the PLATO.

Atari, Inc had a PLATO account and Panther is said to be the origin of Battlezone while airfight led up to Sublogic's Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The PLATO software used on Cyber1 is the final release ( 99A ) of CYBIS, by permission of VCampus.

The load average of this resurrected system is about 10-15 users, sending personal and notesfile notes, and playing inter-terminal games such as Avatar and Empire ( a star-trek like game ), which had both accumulated more than 1. 0 million contact hours on the original PLATO system at UIUC.

He was the co-inventor of the plasma display, is largely regarded as the " father of PLATO ", and has made a career of improving classroom productivity by using computer and telecommunications technologies.

The creation of the PLATO computer system, the first system to combine graphics and touch-sensitive screens, is the hallmark of his efforts.

PLATO ( Package for Linear-combination of ATomic Orbitals ) is a suite of programs for electronic structure calculations originally designed and written by Andrew Horsfield and Steven Kenny, but now with contributions from others.

PLATO is a code, written in C, for the efficient modelling of materials.

How PLATO does its calculations is summarised in several papers.

PLATO was not connected to internet predecessor ArpaNet in any way that allowed mass use by the public, and consequently, chess3 was and still is relatively unknown to the public.

A PLATO V terminal in 1981 displaying RankTrek application, one of the first to combine simultaneous local microprocessor-based computing with remote mainframe computing.

Through the 1970s CDC tirelessly promoted PLATO, both as a commercial tool and one for re-training unemployed workers in new fields.

He later claimed that Micro-PLATO was one of the reasons PLATO got off-track.

South Africa was one of the biggest users of PLATO in the early 1980s.

The largest PLATO installation in South Africa during the early 1980s was at the University of the Western Cape, which served a " coloured " population, and at one time had hundreds of PLATO IV terminals all connected by leased data lines back to Johannesburg.

In the 1970s, one could play correspondence chess in a PLATO System program called ' chess3 '.

May be the earliest example of social computing in a live production environment with initially hundreds and soon thousands of users, on the PLATO computer system based in the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1973, when social software applications for multi-user chat rooms, group message forums, and instant messaging appeared all within that year.

An attempt to mass-market the PLATO system was introduced in 1980 as Micro-PLATO, which ran the basic TUTOR system on a CDC " Viking-721 " terminal and various home computers.

Gallie, a program officer at the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), describes the impact of Don Bitzer and the PLATO system, grants related to the classroom use of computers, and NSF's Regional Computing Program.

In 1982, UC Berkeley student David Davis began writing a UNIX game called trek82, based on what he remembered of Empire when he used the PLATO system while at the University of Hawaii.

During the period when CDC was marketing PLATO, the system began to be used internationally.

The South African subsidiary of CDC invested heavily in the development of an entire secondary school curriculum ( SASSC ) on PLATO, but unfortunately as the curriculum was nearing the final stages of completion, CDC began to falter in South Africa — partly because of financial problems back home, partly because of growing opposition in the United States to doing business in South Africa, and partly due to the rapidly evolving microcomputer, a paradigm shift that CDC failed to recognize.