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{{Short description|Discontinued operating system}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox OS | name = Dartmouth Time-Sharing System | screenshot = | caption = | developer = [[Dartmouth College]] | source_model = | kernel_type = | supported_platforms = [[GE-200 series]], [[GE-600 series|GE-635]] series, [[Honeywell 6000 series|Honeywell 6000]] series | working_state = Discontinued | released = 1964 | discontinued = yes | prog_language = [[Dartmouth BASIC]], [[ALGOL 60]], [[Fortran|FORTRAN]], [[COBOL]], [[APL (programming language)|APL]], DXPL, [[DYNAMO (programming language)|DYNAMO]], GMAP, [[Lisp (programming language)|LISP]], MIX, [[PL/I]], [[SNOBOL]] | ui = [[Command-line interface]] | license = | website = {{URL|dtss.dartmouth.edu}} }} The '''Dartmouth Time-Sharing System''' ('''DTSS''') is a discontinued [[operating system]] first developed at [[Dartmouth College]] between 1963 and 1964.<ref name="Rankin">{{cite book | last = Rankin| first = Joy Lisi | title = A People's History of Computing in the United States | place = Cambridge, Massachusetts | publisher = Harvard University Press | year = 2018| isbn = 9780674970977 }}</ref> It was the first successful large-scale [[time-sharing]] system to be implemented, and was also the system for which the [[BASIC]] language was developed. DTSS was developed continually over the next decade, reimplemented on several generations of computers, and finally shut down in 1999. [[General Electric]] developed a similar system based on an interim version of DTSS, which they referred to as Mark II. Mark II and the further developed Mark III were widely used on their [[GE-600 series]] [[mainframe]] computers and formed the basis for their [[online service]]s. These were the largest such services in the world for a time, eventually emerging as the consumer-oriented [[GEnie]] online service.
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