Initial SERMO-BBS: a telnet PC that boots SERMO-DOS

A rubbs-based telnet server that drops every caller into a simulated PC:
it POSTs, boots, loads SERMO-DOS, and lands at a C:\> prompt. Built-in DOS
commands (VER/DATE/TIME/ECHO/MEM/DIR/CLS/HELP/EXIT) behave; anything else
is routed to Sermo::Oracle as a question — the hook for a future LLM.

Built on rubbs' configurable BBS::FakeOS engine; the whole OS lives in
lib/sermo/dos.rb as a FakeOS.define block, so new character-mode OSes are
added as config files, not engine changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
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# frozen_string_literal: true
require 'bbs'
require 'time'
require_relative 'oracle'
module Sermo
# An MS-DOS-flavoured machine for SERMO-BBS: pretend you sat down at an old
# PC, watched it POST and boot, and landed at a C:\> prompt. Built-in DOS
# commands behave; anything else is treated as a question and handed to
# Sermo::Oracle (the conversational core).
#
# This whole OS is data: to add another character-mode OS later, write a new
# BBS::FakeOS.define block in its own file — no engine changes needed.
DOS = BBS::FakeOS.define do
name 'SERMO-DOS'
prompt 'C:\\>'
# Classic light-grey-on-black console palette.
colors text: "\e[0;37m",
bright: "\e[1;37m",
accent: "\e[1;32m",
error: "\e[1;31m",
dim: "\e[1;30m"
# ── Power-on self test → boot ──────────────────────────────────────────────
boot do
cls
print 'Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, An Energy Star Ally', delay: 0.3
print 'Copyright (C) 1984-98, Award Software, Inc.', newline: 2, delay: 0.3
print 'Main Processor : Intel 80486DX2 @ 66 MHz', delay: 0.2
memtest 16_384, step: 4096, delay: 0.05
print '', delay: 0.2
print 'Detecting IDE Primary Master ... SERMO HDD 504MB', delay: 0.3
print 'Detecting IDE Primary Slave ... None', delay: 0.2
print 'Detecting Floppy Drive A: ... 1.44M, 3.5 in.', newline: 2, delay: 0.3
print 'Verifying DMI Pool Data ...........', delay: 0.5
print 'Starting MS-DOS...', newline: 2, delay: 0.8
print 'HIMEM is testing extended memory...done.', delay: 0.3
print 'C:\\> LOADHIGH SMARTDRV.EXE', delay: 0.3
print 'C:\\> MSCDEX.EXE /D:SERMO0', newline: 2, delay: 0.4
cls
big_banner 'SERMO DOS', font: 'standard'
print 'SERMO-DOS Version 6.22 (c) 1994-2026 Teletype Games', delay: 0.1
print ''
end
# Shown once, after boot, before the first prompt.
ready do
puts 'Type HELP for a list of commands — or just type a question and ask.'
puts ''
end
# ── Built-in commands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
command 'ver', help: 'Display the SERMO-DOS version' do |_args, io|
io.puts 'SERMO-DOS Version 6.22'
end
command 'cls', help: 'Clear the screen' do |_args, io|
io.cls
end
command 'date', help: 'Display the current date' do |_args, io|
io.puts Time.now.strftime('Current date is %a %m-%d-%Y')
end
command 'time', help: 'Display the current time' do |_args, io|
io.puts Time.now.strftime('Current time is %H:%M:%S')
end
command 'echo', help: 'Display a message' do |args, io|
io.puts(args.empty? ? 'ECHO is on.' : args)
end
command 'mem', help: 'Display memory usage' do |_args, io|
io.puts ' 655360 bytes total conventional memory'
io.puts ' 655360 bytes available to MS-DOS'
io.puts ' 643072 largest executable program size'
io.puts ' 15728640 bytes total contiguous extended memory'
end
command 'dir', help: 'List the directory' do |_args, io|
io.puts ' Volume in drive C is SERMO'
io.puts ' Directory of C:\\'
io.puts ''
io.puts 'COMMAND COM 54 645 06-05-26 6:22a'
io.puts 'SERMO SYS 12 080 06-05-26 6:22a'
io.puts 'AUTOEXEC BAT 128 06-05-26 6:22a'
io.puts 'CONFIG SYS 256 06-05-26 6:22a'
io.puts ' 4 file(s) 67 109 bytes'
io.puts ' 503 312 384 bytes free'
end
command 'help', '?', help: 'Show this help' do |_args, io|
io.puts 'Supported commands:'
io.puts ''
io.puts ' VER DATE TIME ECHO MEM'
io.puts ' DIR CLS HELP EXIT'
io.puts ''
io.puts 'Anything else you type is treated as a question and answered.'
end
command 'exit', 'quit', 'logoff', help: 'Disconnect' do |_args, io|
io.puts 'Goodbye.'
io.halt
end
# ── Everything else is a conversation ────────────────────────────────────────
on_unknown do |input, io|
io.newline
Sermo::Oracle.answer(input, io.ctx).each_line do |line|
io.puts " #{line.chomp}", style: :bright
end
io.newline
end
end
end
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# frozen_string_literal: true
module Sermo
# The conversational core of SERMO-DOS.
#
# Anything typed at the C:\> prompt that is not a built-in DOS command is
# routed here (via the FakeOS `on_unknown` hook). For now it returns canned,
# in-character replies so the machine feels alive.
#
# THIS IS THE LLM INTEGRATION POINT: to make SERMO actually think, replace
# the body of `answer` with a call to your model (e.g. the Claude API) and
# return its text. Nothing else in the project needs to change.
module Oracle
def self.answer(question, _ctx = {})
text = question.to_s.strip
case text.downcase
when /\b(hello|hi|hey|szia|hell[oó])\b/
'Greetings, caller. SERMO-DOS is listening.'
when /\bwho are you\b/, /\bmi vagy\b/
'I am SERMO-DOS — a conversational disk operating system.'
when /\b(thanks|thank you|k[oö]sz)\b/
'You are welcome.'
else
[
'My conversational core is not yet connected to a brain.',
%(You said: "#{text}"),
'(Wire Sermo::Oracle.answer to an LLM to make me think.)'
].join("\n")
end
end
end
end