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Here are some photos of students and others using the system at Dartmouth ca 1964. Many show the rolls of teletype paper. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dartmo
by jonjacky 11y ago
Here are some photos of students and others using the system at Dartmouth ca 1964. Many show the rolls of teletype paper.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dartmouthflickr/sets/72157643275728555/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/dartmouthflickr/sets/721576432...
This paper from Science in 1968 explains how the time-sharing operating system (one of the first ever, including two CPUs communicating through a shared disk)
was "designed and constructed by a team consisting of the authors (Kemeny and Kurtz) and a dozen undergraduate students."
http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/sciencearticle http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/sciencearticle
They write, "This experience revealed that bright undergraduate college students were extremely adept at computer programming, and that with little training they could produce major programs and software systems better than those professionally produced and commercially available."