Editing ICL Direct Machine Environment (section)

{{Short description|Computing mainframe environment}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Direct Machine Environment''', abbreviated '''DME''', was a [[Mainframe computer|mainframe]] environment for the [[ICL 2900 Series]] of computing systems from [[International Computers Limited]] that was developed in the 1970s. DME was more-or-less an [[ICT 1900 series|ICL 1900]] order code processor in [[microcode]], which permitted the ICL 1900 series executive, [[operating system]]s and [[Library (computer science)|program libraries]] to operate on the ICL 2900 series.<ref>{{cite news | title = ICL woos old users with new software | date = 1997-04-28 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Kbm3IWKnstMC&pg=PA198 | work = New Scientist | accessdate = 2011-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.icl1900.co.uk/techpub/tp3788.djvu | title = TP3788 DME/3 and CME/3 | accessdate = 2011-02-11 | format = DJVU | publisher = ICL}}</ref>