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That concludes the series of articles on Dartmouth DTSS. If you'd like to learn more about how it evolved, this book at bitsavers is a useful guide. There's also a list of what user programs were available on the system in 1972.

A book by Joy Lisi Rankin, A People’s History of Computing in the United States, explores at the development of DTSS and BASIC, and its impact on non-specialist users.

Next update to this blog will be in August, where I want to quantify exactly how many time-sharing systems are runnable via emulation today, and after that look at the Master Control Program running on the Burroughs B5500.