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				MINI MONITOR MANUAL

	This mini-manual  is designed to  be a quick  reference guide
for  the  use of  the Stanford  Artificial  Intelligence Laboratory's
computing facilities.   For the most  part, it  is a condensation  of
Monitor  Command Manual  by Brian  Harvey, SAIL  Operating Note  54.3
(December,  1973).   While it is  designed to  give the  user a basic
working  introduction  to  the  available  system   commands,  it  is
suggested  that   for  complete  understanding  of   the  system  The
mini-manual does not cover  all of the  possibilities of our  system,
but it does provide references to other explanatory documentation.

	In order  to provide some  understanding of the  time sharing
method  employed by the Stanford  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
an introduction to this concept  has been excerpted from the  Monitor
Command Manual.   It is suggested  that this introduction be  read by
new users befor tackling explanations of individual working commands.

(timesharing from mcm)


I.  GETTING STARTED

A.  TERMINALS

	Most terminals  on this system  are display terminals.   This
means that  the characters you type appear  before you on the display
screen.  While  there are a  few teletype  machines, they are  rarely
used here.

	The most  common type of  terminal in  use is the  Data Disc.
(The name  Data Disc actually refers not to the terminals themselves,
but to the  machine in  the computer room  which controls them.)  The
other type of display terminal  is the III ("triple I") which is used
mainly for graphics display programs.

	A terminal not  in use  will say one  of three  things on  an
otherwise blank display  screen.  TAKE  ME, I'M YOURS means  that the
terminal  is available.   NO DATA DISK  CHANNELS LEFT  means that the
Data Disc, which can run only 31 terminals at one time, is full.  The
third message is self-explanatory--THE SYSTEM IS DOWN!

	The keyboard of  the the terminal while physically  akin to a
typewriter  keyboard, has two  characters per key  (with exception of
zero)  and several  control  keys.    This character  set  is  called
Stanford ASCII,   which is an extended version  of the ASCII standard
computer character set. Upper case letters are obtained by depressing
and holding the shift  key while striking a particular  character.  A
series of capitals is obtained by engaging the shift lock.  The upper
series of  characters on  the  keys are  accessed by  depressing  and
holding down the "TOP" key  while striking the desired character. The
control keys and their functions are listed in the table below:


KEY	FUNCTION		USE

BREAK   BREAK			signal that characters which follow are a special
				command to the display service routines in the monitor	
ESC 	ESCAPE			same function as break
CALL	CALL			returns to monitor command level
CLEAR   CLEAR			deletes line in progress
TAB	TAB			activates set tabulations stops across screen
FORM	FORMFEED		
VT	VERTICAL TAB		moves the cursor up one line in edit mode
BS	BACKSPACE		deletes or "erases" the preceding character
LINE	LINEFEED		
SHIFT	SHIFT			accesses upper case
SHIFT	SHIFT LOCK      	locks shift key and provides all upper case
LOCK
TOP	TOP			accesses the top character of each key
ALT	ALT MODE		cancels last command
META
CONTROL

	The display screen presents  a visual image of what  is being
typed into the line  editor at the keyboard.  The image on the screen
may be adjusted by the self-explanatory the right of the screen--much
the same  as a  television.  The  characters you type  are kept  in a
special  buffer called  your line editor  until you  activate them by
typing RETURN or a few  other special characters.  The  characters in
the line  editor are displayed on  the screen with two  cursors.  The
left cursor is underneath the first character in the line editor; the
right cursor  is under the  place where the  next character  you type
will go.  When your line editor is empty, the cursors coincide.