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Daybreak Software Installation and Operation
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This document is preliminary. It probably won't really be the way things work when the product is released.
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The power switch and reset button are located on the front of the daybreak. There is no "ALT-B" button to specify alternate booting choices. Instead, the blank function keys along the top of the keyboard are used to specify the boot device.
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When the daybreak is first turned on, the screen will be filled with a gray pattern with a solid white cursor in the upper left corner. Press one of the function keys according to the following table:
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F1: Disk boot (Lisp)
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F2: Floppy boot (doesn't work)
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F3: Ethernet boot
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F4: Alternate ether boot
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F5: Diagnostic Disk boot
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F6: Diagnostic Floppy boot
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F7: Diagnostic Ether boot
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F8: Reserved
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Getting into Othello:
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To get into othello, boot the machine then do an Alternate Etherboot-6 by pressing F4 followed by the number 6 (not F6 and not the keypad's 6). Sometime later, the cursor will change to 0900 and Othello will come up.
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Installing Lisp:
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The physical volume is partitioned into at least 3 volumes for Lisp.
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uCode: This is where the Lisp microcode lives (about 150 pages)
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Lisp: Where the sysout lives.
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LispFiles: For those who want to use the local file system.
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Lisp booting on the daybreak is similar to Mesa, so the microcode is stored as "Pilot Microcode" and there is a dummy "germ" file which is there just so the microcode can load something for the germ.
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To bring up a new lisp on a fresh volume, do the following:
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> Initial Microcode Fetch
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Drive Name: RD0
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File Name: <LispCore>Dove>DiskInitialDove.db
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> Germ Fetch
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Logical Volume Name: uCode
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File Name: <LispCore>Dove>Dummy.Germ
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> Lisp Microcode Fetch
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Logical Volume Name: uCode
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File Name: <LispCore>Dove>LispDove.db
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Finally, fetching the Lisp sysout is more or less normal:
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> Lisp Sysout Fetch
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Logical Volume Name: Lisp
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File Name: <LispCore>Next>Full.sysout
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Shall I expand this lisp to fill the volume? Yes
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Shall I make this the default? Yes
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To boot Lisp:
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Press the reset button and then press F1
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Lisp caveats:
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If you need the local file system, do:
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(DEFINEQ (MACHINETYPE ()(QUOTE DOVE)))
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then DIR {DSK} or (CREATEDSKDIRECTORY 'LISPFILES)
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MACHINETYPE will return DOVE later, but the file system's eventfn crashes on daybreaks and I'm afraid to touch the file system code to disable it any other way.
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LOGOUT doesn't work right. If you want to save work and resume it later, do a SAVEVM. However, if you want to resume a frozen sysout, it must be expanded and the file system must be disabled (redefine MACHINETYPE to return DAYBREAK).
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If the ethernet seems to go away, use (RESTART.ETHER) to start it up again.
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Lots of programs like LAFITE create their status windows off the screen.
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I'm not sure what will happen if you SYSOUT from a daybreak and load into a DLion/dorado.
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& <01> & <01> & MODERN
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MODERN ? 1(DEFAULTFONT 1 (GACHA 10) (GACHA 8) (TERMINAL 8))
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- m <00> <00>
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<00> E A = <00> < -
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% & : & 1 # ) ' ' 2 <00> <00> L I Z ? <00>z<EFBFBD> |