Deos Not Compute

A QUARTER OF A century after John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz put Dartmouth at the cutting edge of academic computing with the advent of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, Kiewit officials are planning to pull the plug on the pioneering computer system. Computer evolution has made DTSS into a dinosaur.

The system is unable to compete economically with equally powerful and much less costly desktop equipment. Annual main- tenance costs alone for the DTSS hardware are in the $50,000 range. The final "log off' for DTSS is scheduled for July 1995.