languages. "Burroughs Large Systems" referred to all of these large-system product lines together, in contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems (B2000...
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are an architectural feature of Burroughs large systems, including the current (as of 2006) Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. Apart from being stack- and tag-based...
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invented by William Seward Burroughs (grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs). In 1904, six years after Burroughs' death, the company moved...
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They were also known as Burroughs Medium Systems, by contrast with the Burroughs Large Systems and Burroughs Small Systems. The B2500 and B3500 computers...
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The Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set includes the set of valid operations for the Burroughs B6500, B7500 and later Burroughs large systems, including...
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is the operating system of the Burroughs B5000/B5500/B5700 and the B6500 and successors, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. MCP was originally...
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PL/S, BLISS, BCPL, and extended ALGOL for Burroughs large systems. Forth also has applications as a systems language. In the 1970s, C became widespread...
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known as the Burroughs Small Systems, by contrast with the Burroughs Large Systems (B5000, B6000, B7000, B8000) and the Burroughs Medium Systems (B2000, B3000...
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between primary and secondary storage and reduced memory fragmentation. The Burroughs Corporation B5000 computer was one of the first to implement segmentation...
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also called slob-octals or slobs in this context) and Burroughs large systems (see also: Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set) 12-bit syllables: NCR computers...
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(the Burroughs large systems were multiprocessor systems). ESPOL was used to write the Master Control Program (MCP) on Burroughs computer systems from...
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known in Antiquity Emode, a computer architecture used by the Burroughs large systems Emode.com, a media company Imode (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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(as in the Burroughs Large Systems and Intel 432), and implemented the HLL via microcode in the processor (as in Burroughs Small Systems and Pascal MicroEngine)...
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or PL/I, or as a hardware structure in some computers such as Burroughs large systems. Data descriptors are typically used at run-time to pass argument...
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Library, the national library of Japan Network Definition Language Burroughs large systems compiler Network Description Language No Decompression Limit, the...
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functions, such as PL/S, BLISS, BCPL, extended ALGOL and ESPOL (for Burroughs large systems), and C, were introduced. One method for this is inline assembly...
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The Burroughs Corporation (which later merged with Sperry/Univac to form Unisys) offered an alternative to S/360 with their Burroughs large systems B5000...
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Work Flow Language (category Burroughs mainframe computers)
process control language for the Burroughs large systems, including the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series, and their operating system Master Control Program. Developed...
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ALGOL 60 (category Systems programming languages)
call-by-name. There are 35 such reserved words in the standard Burroughs Large Systems sub-language: ALPHA ARRAY BEGIN BOOLEAN COMMENT CONTINUE DIRECT...
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designed to be targeted by a specific high-level language. The Burroughs large systems were target machines for ALGOL 60, for example. Computer programming...
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of later languages, some of which soon became more popular. The Burroughs large systems were designed to be programmed in an extended subset of ALGOL....
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1604/upper-3000 series, BESM-6, Ferranti Atlas, Philco TRANSAC S-2000 and Burroughs large systems. The Honeywell DATAmatic 1000, H-800, the MANIAC II, the MANIAC...
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Even if the system implementation uses the MMU in some way, this will not be at all visible at the MCP level. Burroughs large systems descriptors Memory...
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either the 1100/2200 architecture (the ClearPath IX series) or the Burroughs large systems architecture (the ClearPath NX series). Everything is common except...
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Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys as a result of a hostile takeover bid launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael Blumenthal...
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Elbrus (computer) (category Soviet computer systems)
line of the large fourth-generation computers, developed by Vsevolod Burtsev. These were heavily influenced by the Burroughs large systems and similarly...
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Burroughs large systems, which have a data-driven tagged and descriptor-based architecture, and the non-commercial Rice Computer. Both the Burroughs and...
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Extremely High Frequency system Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor, a single-chip implementation of the Burroughs large systems computer architecture...
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to mean file system type, and expanded again to mean any type of file. Magic numbers are common in programs across many operating systems. Magic numbers...
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Brazil (redirect from Political system of Brazil)
Brazilian universities had installed mainframe computers from IBM, and Burroughs Large Systems. In the 1970s and 1980s the Brazilian government restricted foreign...
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