languages. "Burroughs Large Systems" referred to all of these large-system product lines together, in contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems (B2000...

are an architectural feature of Burroughs large systems, including the current (as of 2024) Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. Apart from being stack- and tag-based...

They were also known as Burroughs Medium Systems, by contrast with the Burroughs Large Systems and Burroughs Small Systems. The B2500 and B3500 computers...

invented by William Seward Burroughs (grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs). In 1904, six years after Burroughs' death, the company moved...

The Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set includes the set of valid operations for the Burroughs B6500, B7500 and later Burroughs large systems, including...

is the operating system of the Burroughs B5000/B5500/B5700 and the B6500 and successors, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. MCP was originally...

(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)...

(the Burroughs large systems were multiprocessor systems). ESPOL was used to write the Master Control Program (MCP) on Burroughs computer systems from...

known as the Burroughs Small Systems, by contrast with the Burroughs Large Systems (B5000, B6000, B7000, B8000) and the Burroughs Medium Systems (B2000, B3000...

or PL/I, or as a hardware structure in some computers such as Burroughs large systems with their descriptors. Data descriptors are typically used at...

the Burroughs B 5000 (PDF) (A ed.), Detroit: Burroughs, 1962, 5000-21005A B6500 Information Processing Systems Reference Manual (PDF). Burroughs. September...

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...

also called slob-octals or slobs in this context) and Burroughs large systems (see also: Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set) 12-bit: NCR computers such...

process control language for the Burroughs large systems, including the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series, and their operating system Master Control Program. Developed...

implementations have no measurable performance impact. The Burroughs large systems, starting with the Burroughs 5000 introduced in 1961, implemented executable-space...

UNTIL VALUE WHILE There are 35 such reserved words in the standard Burroughs Large Systems sub-language: ALPHA ARRAY BEGIN BOOLEAN COMMENT CONTINUE DIRECT...

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...

example to generate a system that requires less memory at the expense of increased disk I/O operations. The Burroughs large systems Master Control Programs...

either the 1100/2200 architecture (the ClearPath IX series) or the Burroughs large systems architecture (the ClearPath NX series). Everything is common except...

equality Work Flow Language, the process control language for the Burroughs large systems WWE Fastlane, a series of professional wrestling pay-per-view events...

Library, the national library of Japan Network Definition Language Burroughs large systems compiler Network Description Language No Decompression Limit, the...

The Burroughs Corporation (which later merged with Sperry/Univac to form Unisys) offered an alternative to S/360 with their Burroughs large systems B5000...

PL/S, BLISS, BCPL, extended ALGOL and NEWP (for Burroughs large systems/Unisys Clearpath MCP systems), and C, were introduced. One method for this is...

Extremely High Frequency system Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor, a single-chip implementation of the Burroughs large systems computer architecture...

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....

computers, such as the Electrologica X8 and somewhat later the Burroughs large systems, had special "display registers" to support nested functions, while...

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...

and minicomputers were stack machines, the most famous being the Burroughs large systems. Other examples include the CISC HP 3000 machines and the CISC...

contemporary competitors included, in alphabetical order: Bull Gamma 60 Burroughs Large Systems CDC 1604 CDC 3600 Ferranti Atlas GE-600 series Honeywell 800 Philco...

Program) operating system which runs on the Unisys Clearpath series of mainframes. Originally implemented on Burroughs large systems, it has a range of...