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| | Burroughs B5000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The B5000 was revolutionary at the time in that the architecture and instruction set was designed with the needs of software taken into consideration. | | | Thus the designers of the current B5000 systems can optimize in whatever is the latest technique, and programmers do not have to adjust their code for it to run faster – they do not even need to recompile, thus protecting software investment. | | | The B5000 was designed as a stack machine – all program data except for arrays (which include strings and objects) was kept on the stack. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B5000
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| | Unisys History Newsletter v3n5 |
| | Burroughs saw the IBM 360/30 and 360/40 as the principal competition for the B2500 and B3500, so the company decided to make their i/o systems IBM-compatible by using IBM's EBCDIC data code and many IBM file structures. | | | By the early 1970s, both the large and medium Burroughs computers had inspired a high degree of loyalty among their users, who were proud of the advanced features incorporated in the Burroughs architecture. | | | When Burroughs developed successors to the B5500 and B6500, it skipped the 600 numbers (perhaps to avoid confusion with Control Data's CDC 6600 computer) and announced the 700 series in October 1970. |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/randy.carpenter/folklore/v3n5.html
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| | I was representing Burroughs and he was representing that colossus of the computer industry, Westinghouse. | | | Cardatron was the interface between Burroughs 205 and 220 computers and IBM tab equipment. | | | The reward for Burroughs' gamble was a system, in the form of the B5000/5500/5700, which stayed in manufacturing fcr 10 years (probably the longest of any computer it the history of the field) and gave Burroughs a unique architectural-based position in the industry". |
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html
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| | Burroughs Large Systems Architecture |
| | The basic premise of this paper is that the architecture of the Burroughs B5000, as introduced twenty-one years ago and as refined some eighteen years ago, still stands as an example of a modern high-level language computer. | | | Indeed, the B5000 was perhaps the first commercial computer to provide virtual memory. | | | Since the original B5000 design was to support dynamic block structured languages such as ALGOL, it was not quite as efficient as conventional machines at executing FORTRAN programs. |
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http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/papers/B5000.html
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| | MCP (Burroughs Large Systems) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The MCP was the first commercial OS to provide virtual memory and this was supported by the B5000 hardware (for a description of how the virtual memory works, see the B5000 entry). | | | Originally written in ESPOL (Executive Systems Programming Language), which itself was an extension of Burroughs Extended ALGOL, it was converted to NEWP, a better structured and more secure form of ESPOL, in the 1970s. | | | Port files were introduced with BNA (Burroughs Network Architecture), but with the advent of standard networking technologies such as OSI and TCP/IP, port files can be used with these networks as well. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Control_Program
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| | Computer Museum |
| | Modules from the Burroughs B5000 computer - early 1960s. | | | UVa's first computer - a Burroughs B205 (1960). | | | The 205 was a decimal macine with a magnetic drum for primary memory. |
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http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html
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| | Summary of projects by N. Wirth, 1962 - 1999 |
| | After publication the project was continued at Stanford University and resulted in an improved implementation on the Burroughs B5000 computer. | | | Lilith demonstrated that a workstation can be a powerful, convenient, and even economical tool not only in the office, but in applications which so far had been the exclusive domain of large scale computers, such as computer-aided design. | | | Today, 60 Lilith computers are in daily use at the Institute at ETH, and about 250 more in universities and in industry (e.g. |
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http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/projects.html
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| | TMADM: Issue 3: 03 Mar 2003 |
| | Another computer, the American Burroughs B5000, announced in 1961 and delivered in 1963, also used a zero-address architecture, and also enabled reverse polish notation to be used for programming. | | | R. Barton, one of the designers of the B5000, has written that he developed RPN independently of Hamblin, sometime in 1958 while reading a textbook on symbolic logic, and before he was aware of Hamblin's work. |
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http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~peter/this-month/this-month-3-030303.html
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| | Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research |
| | The development team for the Burroughs’ B5000 computer system began in the late 1950s with two major design objectives. | | | Both of these publications were reprinted, along with several others on the B5000, in Annals of the History of Computing 9 (1987). | | | Automatic programming aids of the late 1950s attacked this problem indirectly by providing object code to accomplish the storage and recall functions.) In the B5000, a “pushdown” stack (qv) is employed to eliminate the need for instructions to store or recall intermediate results. |
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http://special.lib.umn.edu/cbi/shp/entries/mcp.html
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| | Burroughs B5000 at opensource encyclopedia |
| | The B5000 was a mainframe computer introduced by the Burroughs Corporation in 1961. | | | The operating system, called Master Control Program (MCP) - unrelated from the same in Tron), were programmed in extended Algol almost a decade before Unix, and the command interface developed into a compiled structured language with procedures called Work Flow Language (WFL). | | | The B5000 was a stack machine designed to be programmed in an extended Algol 60. |
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http://www.wiki.tatet.com/B5000.html
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| | B5000 instruction word is divided into four instruction syllables: operators, literals, operand calls, and descriptor calls. | | | Section 2 talks about some early descriptor architectures such as the Burroughs B5000, the Rice University Computer, and the Basic Language Machine. | | | Figure 4: B5000 Program Reference Table A tag field in each word in the table indicates whether the entry is a descriptor or a scalar data element. |
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http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~pmodak/OS_Term_Paper.doc
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| | Mainframe |
| | The most powerful IBM computer system of its time, the 3090 high-end processor of the IBM 308X computer series incorporated one-million-bit memory chips, Thermal Conduction Modules to provide the shortest average chip-to-chip communication time of any large general purpose computer. | | | The Burroughs B5500 has multiprogramming and virtual memory capabilities, and is three times faster than the B5000. | | | IBM ships the midrange 360 model 40 computer which had COBOL and FORTRAN programming languages available as well as the stock Basic Assembly Language (BAL) assembler. |
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http://www.thocp.net/hardware/mainframe.htm
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| | In 1962, Burroughs introduced the 5000 series of computers that incorporated some of these innovations. | | | In the late 1960s, Burroughs built the ILLIAC-IV, a parallel-processing machine based on a design by Daniel Slotnik of the University of Illinois. | | | By the mid-1960s, the IBM Corporation had seized and was vigorously defending a dominant share of the U.S. computer market. |
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http://cs.union.edu/~hemmendd/Courses/cs40/History/digcomphist.html
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| | Stack machines(John R. Mashey) |
| | I always admired the elegance of the B5000, as a machine designed with compilers and OS's in mind; it fit the technology of the day well, but the tradeoffs have changed - code density is not so important, the stack is a bottlneck for very high-performance implementations, and global optimizing technology is widely available. | | | and the B5000 was a brilliantly-innovative design that combined hardware and software thinking together in ways that created true devotion. | | | Stack CPUs have been built just that way. |
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http://yarchive.net/comp/stack_machines.html
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| | The Rice University Computer |
| | While not the first computer on campus--a Litton LGP-30 shared by the Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering departments was in use in 1957[3]--it quickly became Rice's primary computer and remained in that role until supplanted by an IBM 7040, followed by a Burroughs B5500, in the late 1960's[4]. | | | Parts of the machine began functioning in 1959, and the computer finally became fully operational in 1961. | | | Shell, as part of the funding agreement, had the right to know what the R1 project was doing, whether or not the results were ever published. |
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http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html
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| | The Risks Digest Volume 6: Issue 11 |
| | Individual records were pulled by the obvious query "which officers have Service Number equal 'xxxx'..." The program loaded a batch of queries into the B5000 and then passed the whole tape file against it, printing "hits" on line, giving a distinctive rhythm to the job: buzzzzchunkachunkabuzzzchunkabuzzzzzzzzzzzzchunkachunkabuzzz.... | | | The biggest job they ran was queries, which were written in a perverted first-order predicate calculus and asked questions like "which officers have specialty codes equal 'xxxx' and grade equal 'Captain'" and so forth. | | | Our H800 shared a computer room with the Military Personnel Center, who had just moved the personnel records of all of the officers in the USAF onto mag tape files on a Burroughs B5000. |
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http://safariexamples.informit.com/0130464163/maillists/risks/6.11.html
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| | Douglas W. Jones's collection of job cards |
| | This card appears to be from the 1961-1966 era, when Stanford had a Burroughs B5000 (upgraded in 1965 to a B5500) and an IBM 7090. | | | The prepunched text "$JOB" in columns 1 through 4 allows the card to be dated to before 1967 when Stanford got an IBM System 360/67; on that machine, job cards always began with "// JOB". | | | One puzzling feature of this card is that the explanatory information filling the center of the card doesn't align in any useful way with the card columns, although the graphics suggest that such an alignment was intended. |
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http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/collection/i-job.html
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| | Omniseek: Shopping: /Shopping /Home Electronics /Computers /Historical |
| | Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Burroughs B5000 Burroughs B5000 Information Brochure Burroughs B5000 Descriptor Burroughs 205 Command List Burroughs 205 DATAFILE Tape Unit Handbook... | | | Somehow I've developed an interest in where the computer industry and profession has come from. |
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http://shopping.omniseek.com/srch/{50898}
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| | The B5000 (1961-1963) probably is the first machine with stack instructions. | | | Probably influenced by a Rice University custom-designed computer that used operations called SAVE and UNSAVE that seemed to have worked like PUSH and POP. | | | Probably influenced >by a Rice University custom-designed computer that used operations called >SAVE and UNSAVE that seemed to have worked like PUSH and POP. |
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http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/20030302_Push_and_pop_first_used_when
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| | Ted Leung on the air : Capability-Based Computer Systems |
| | In these pages you encounter the Burroughs B5000, the MIT PDP-1, the CAL-TSS, the Plessey 250 and its descendent the Cambridge CAP. | | | So as we started into sharing, I took some time to look through my (paper) copy of Henry Levy's Capability-Based Computer Systems which details the evolution of capability oriented systems. | | | You'll also find the CMU Hydra and StarOS systems. |
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http://www.sauria.com/blog/computers/851.html
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| | Mailgate: comp.lang.cobol: Re: If you were inventing CoBOL... |
| | Working-storage belonging to the called program is "pageable" in exactly the same way as any other storage in COBOL or any other language. | | | The Burroughs B5000 was "paging" working-storage over 40 years ago, and its descendants do so today. |
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http://mailgate.supereva.it/comp/comp.lang.cobol/msg26686.html
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| | Unisys About Unisys History |
| | Burroughs introduces the B5000 Series, the first dual-processor and virtual memory computer. | | | Burroughs pioneers use of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR). | | | Burroughs introduces A Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP NX system. |
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http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/history
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| | DBLP Record 'conf/cmg/Jack85' |
| | @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cmg/Jack85, author = {Hulan E. Jack Jr.}, title = {Some Parameters to Evaulate Performance and Capacity on Burroughs B5000/B6000/B7000 Mainframe Computers.}, booktitle = {Int. |
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http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/cmg/Jack85
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| | Entry Lotsch:1964:AFI from cacm1960.bib |
| | eps can arbitrarily be chosen up to $\textit{eps} = 10^{-6}$ for a computer with sufficient word length as, for example, the Burroughs B5000 which has 11--12 significant digits. | | | Referring to the formulas of Algorithm 213: if $w |
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http://www.math.utah.edu:8080/ftp/pub/tex/bib/idx/cacm1960/7/11/660-661.html
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| | Re: IBM Mainframe JCL Conversion Tools |
| | > Burroughs went heavily for Pascal-type languages in its systems languages, so > I'm not surprised that MCP still honours that tradition. | | | Burroughs went heavily for block-structured languages, specifically in the form of an extended version of ALGOL-60, a decade or more before Wirth developed the first Pascal specification. | | | A block-structured language introduced with the B5000 in 1961. |
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http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/alt.cobol/messages/23130.html
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| | sheets, compiled by staff at Burroughs, which include information about competitor adding machine and computer companies and their products. | | | The collection contains "Competitor Information" sheets, compiled by staff at Burroughs, which include information about competitor adding machine and computer companies and their products. | | | Burroughs also kept product literature files, which included a variety of types of information on the companyâs competitors and their products. |
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| | DBLP: Ronald Q. Smith |
| | George Gray, Ronald Q. Smith: Before the B5000: Burroughs Computers, 1951-1963. | | | Ask others: ACM DL - ACM Guide - CiteSeer - CSB - Google - HomePageSearch |
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http://www.vldb.org/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/s/Smith:Ronald_Q=.html
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| | DBLP: Hulan E. Jack Jr. |
| | Hulan E. Jack Jr.: Some Parameters to Evaulate Performance and Capacity on Burroughs B5000/B6000/B7000 Mainframe Computers. | | | Hulan E. Jack Jr., Kim Goldenberg, Roger Williams: Performance/Capacity Data Base For Studies of Long-Term Trends. |
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http://www.vldb.org/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/j/Jack_Jr=:Hulan_E=.html
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| | Diary for wingo |
| | I occasionally find myself wondering what hardware deficiencies Alan Kay is ranting about — Neither Intel nor Motorola nor any other chip company understands the first thing about why [the Burroughs B5000] architecture was a good idea, etc. Wha? | | | My initial reaction was that this was bad for computer science to target one architecture, but Brian sees freedom in Apple’s JIT compiler (supplied by Transitive). |
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http://www.advogato.org/person/wingo/diary.html?start=125
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| | DIMACS Working Group on Mobile Code Security |
| | Language-based mechanisms have been used for security purposes perhaps as early as the Burroughs B5000 series computers (ca. | | | The working group will focus on the use of safe language runtime systems as protection mechanisms to support the controlled execution of untrusted code. | | | The working group will explore many recent systems such as language-based mechanisms, name-space management, and capability style semantics to provide access control. |
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http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/WGMobileCode/announcement.html
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| | YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> ESPOL |
| | ESPOL (short for Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language) was a compiler for an ALGOL 60 superset that provided capabilities of that would later be known as Mohols, machine oriented high order languages, such as interrupting a processor on a multiprocessor system (the Burroughs B5000 was a dual-processor system). | | | The ESPOL single pass compiler could compile over 250 lines per second and was used to write the MCP (Master Control Program) on the Burroughs 6700. |
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http://www.yourart.com/research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/ESPOL
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| | Computer History Nexus |
| | Digital Computer 1954 MIDAC 1955 MINIAC Dec 1953 MINIAC II Mar 1955 Photo Mistic 1957 Photo MIT Whirlwind I Dec 1950 Photo MIT Whirlwind II Jul 1953 Photo MODAC 404 Sep 1954 Photo MODAC 410 1955 MODAC 414 1956? | | | Photo Bendix G15 Aug 1955 Link Bell Labs LEPRECHAUN 1957 Photo BTM 1200 1954 Burroughs 204 & 205 Jul 1954 Photo Photo Burroughs E 101 1955 Photo Burroughs E 103 1957 Photo Burroughs Lab Calculator Jan 1951 CA/DIC 1953 CADAC 107A 1953 Cambridge EDSAC II 1957 Photo Circle Jun 1954 Photo Consolidated Eng. |
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| | All words on ALGOL |
| | The Burroughs Corporation's B5000 and its successors were stack machines designed to be programmed in an extended variant of ALGOL 60, known as Elliot ALGOL; indeed their operating system, or MCP (Master Control Program) as they are called, was written in Elliot ALGOL as far back as 1961. | | | The following code could run on an ALGOL implementation for a Burroughs A-Series mainframe, and is taken from this site. | | | It is sometimes erroneously attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, also known for his pointed comments, who helped to implement the first ALGOL 60 compiler. |
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| | langreiter.com plain, simple: 2005-03-27-b5k |
| | These systems were stack machines without an assembler language — all development was done in variants of the ALGOL language [...] C.A.R. Hoare famously noted that ALGOL was a significant improvement on most of its successors." | | | "In 1963, the B5000 operating system (ominously called MCP — Master Control Program) started with 30,000 lines of ALGOL. | | | "The first commercial open source platform was probably the Burroughs B5000, designed 40 years ago in 1963 by Robert Barton and a team at [create Burroughs]. |
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http://www.langreiter.com/space/2005-03-27-b5k
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| | MVS... a long history : OS/360 |
| | OS/360 was not the first operating system to require DASD. | | | Multiprogramming introduced the technique of assigning control of the processor to another task while the first task was waiting for I/O. This technique utilized resources more effectively. | | | Burroughs B5000 (MCP), CDC 6600 (CIPROS), Ferranti Atlas and GE 625 (GECOS, later GCOS) all required DASD, to say nothing of IBM's own DCS. |
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http://mcraeclan.com/links/Computers/IBMMainframeHistory/mvshist1.htm
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| | J2ME : MicroDevNet : Does PTSC Stack Up in the Embedded World? |
| | Some previous examples of stack machines included the Burroughs B5000, DECs PDP-11, HP3000 as well as many others. | | | If you don't recognize any of the above names, then it should give you an idea of how old this concept is. |
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http://www.microjava.com/jvm/hardware/other/ptsc2?PageNo=2
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| | Each process running on the PDP-1 timesharing system has a C-list (also called the program reference list, after the Burroughs B5000), in which capabilities are held. | | | The C-list is actually maintained in locations 0-77 of process address space. |
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| | LtU Classic Archives |
| | This language had a bytecode interpreter based on the orginal bytecode interpreter: yes, the HW of the 1961 Burroughs B5000 designed by Bob Barton. | | | Much earlier in the 60s Klaus did his best work with a typeless VHLL -- Euler, ca 1965-6 -- that was an extreme generalization of Algol (based on work by van Wijngaarten). |
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| | steve dekorte - blog |
| | They have so many ways of dealing with problems that the early-binding languages don't have, that it's very, very difficult for people who like Lisp or Smalltalk to imagine anything else. | | | The Architecture of the Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of the Times? |
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http://www.dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi?do=edit&id=1011
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| | Schedule of Classes |
| | preparation: Appendix 2-A. February 17: Continuation of the Burroughs B5000-6000 architecture. |
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| | * Burroughs ILLIAC IV 1974 * Naked Mini LSI 1 1974 * Naked Mini LSI 2 1974 * Honeywell 60 1974 * CDC STAR-100 1974 * Texas Instruments ASC 1974 * HP 9830 1974 * Alphamicro 1000 A ???? |
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| | Burroughs Corporation, 5, 417, 446, 456, 508, 652, 1226, 1492 | | | B5000, 21, 118, 449, 452, 453, 580, 685, 835, 1156, 1318, 1421, 1423, 1491 |
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