Desktop CYBER

Desktop CYBER

Desktop CYBER (DtCYBER) accurately emulates a range of Control Data Corporation (CDC) CYBER mainframes and peripherals in software.

History

The CDC CYBER range of mainframe/super-computers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970's and 1980's. CDC has ceased manufacture of CYBER mainframes in 1992.

Once modern desktop systems became powerful enough, some former users of CDC CYBER mainframes tried to create software emulations of these computing dinosaurs.

The first commercial emulator was developed by Infoware (Cocoa Beach, Florida). In 1995 their product called AlphaCYBER ended up in the courts because CDC sued them for copyright infringement [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17290895.html] Control Data obtains injunction against Infoware ] [ [http://www.fenwick.com/docstore/Publications/IP/Look_&_Feel.pdf] A Comprehensive Current Analysis of Software "Look and Feel" Protection ] . A settlement was reached before the case went to trial. The terms of the settlement were kept secret.

The court case frightened many would be emulation developers. A few years later in 2002 several former CDC CYBER users independently developed emulations of CDC CYBER mainframes. Only one emulator has been released. DtCYBER version 1.0 was [http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.sys.cdc/browse_thread/thread/ae0091aef928bda9/a6000077d82a8cfd?hl=en#a6000077d82a8cfd released] by its author Tom Hunter from Perth, Australia as an open source product in December 2002. Initially it only worked under 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, but later [http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.sys.cdc/browse_thread/thread/94f53f4861fba804/cbf031fbcf7a3ff0?hl=en#cbf031fbcf7a3ff0 releases] added support for most POSIX compliant operating systems with X11 support.

Although initially the software was distributed under an open source (BSD-like) license, in 2006 the author decided to turn the software into a commercial product.

Features

Mainframe types: 60-bit CDC mainframe family members, for example the CDC 6400, CYBER 73, CYBER 173, CYBER 175 and CYBER 170 model 865.
Peripherals: various disk drives, tape drives, printers, card reader/punch, terminal multiplexers and graphics console.
Supported CDC operating systems: COS, KRONOS, NOS 1, NOS 2, NOS/BE and SCOPE/Hustler.

creenshots

External links

* [http://members.iinet.net.au/~tom-hunter/ Desktop CYBER Emulator home page]

References


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