Editing GE-200 series (section)

==DTSS==
Through the early 1960s GE worked with [[Dartmouth College]] on the development of a [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]], which would later go on to become the [[Dartmouth Time-Sharing System]] (DTSS). The system was constructed by attaching a number of [[Teleprinter|teletypewriters]] to a smaller GE machine called the [[DATANET-30]] (DN-30), which was a small computer that had evolved from an earlier process-control machine.

DTSS actually ran on the DN-30. The DN-30 accepted commands one at a time from the terminals connected to it, and then ran their requested programs on the GE-235. The GE-235 had no idea it was not running in [[Batch processing|batch mode]], and the illusion of [[computer multitasking|multitasking]] was being maintained externally.

In 1965 GE started packaging the DN-30 and GE-235 systems together as the '''GE-265'''. The GE-265 achieved fame not only for being the first commercially successful time-sharing system, but it was also the machine on which the [[BASIC|BASIC programming language]] was created.