Dartmouth Time-Sharing System

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Dartmouth Time-Sharing System was an early pioneering time-sharing operating system developed at Dartmouth College in the 1960s that enabled multiple users to interact with a central computer simultaneously and popularized interactive computing.

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instanceOf interactive computing system
time-sharing operating system
academicDiscipline computer science
computing education
allows multiple users to interact with a central computer simultaneously
associatedWith Dartmouth BASIC project
computingModel remote terminal access
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designedFor educational use
undergraduate students
developer Dartmouth College NERFINISHED
John G. Kemeny NERFINISHED
Thomas E. Kurtz NERFINISHED
era 1960s computing
feature fast turnaround for program execution
interactive debugging
support for many concurrent users
goal make computing easy to learn and use
provide computing access to all Dartmouth students
historicalSignificance key milestone in the history of interactive computing
one of the first large-scale academic time-sharing systems
inception 1963
1964
influenced interactive programming environments
later time-sharing systems
widespread adoption of BASIC
inputOutputDevice teleprinter terminals
teletype terminals
locationDeveloped Hanover, New Hampshire NERFINISHED
mainframeComputerUsed GE-225 NERFINISHED
GE-235 NERFINISHED
GE-635 NERFINISHED
GE-645 NERFINISHED
manufacturerOfHardware General Electric NERFINISHED
networkingMethod dial-up telephone lines
notableFor popularizing interactive computing
supporting multiple simultaneous users
widespread use of BASIC by students
operatedBy Dartmouth College Computing Center NERFINISHED
operatingSystemType time-sharing
status historical system
successorInfluenceOn modern multi-user operating systems
supportsProgrammingLanguage Dartmouth BASIC NERFINISHED
usedAt Dartmouth College NERFINISHED
usedFor research computing
student coursework
teaching programming
userInterface command-line interface

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Dartmouth BASIC platform Dartmouth Time-Sharing System
John G. Kemeny developed Dartmouth Time-Sharing System