User Interface
DTSS implemented an early integrated development environment (IDE): an interactive command line interface. There was no need to log out. If users did not respond, they were logged out after a short delay.
Any line typed in by the user, and beginning with a line number, was added to the program, replacing any previously stored line with the same number; anything else was assumed to be a DTSS command and immediately executed. Lines which consisted solely of a line number weren't stored but did remove any previously stored line with the same number. This method of editing was necessary due to use of teleprinters as the terminal units for the Dartmouth Timesharing system.
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