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 2006) 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

between primary and secondary storage and reduced memory fragmentation. The Burroughs Corporation B5000 computer was one of the first to implement segmentation...

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...

(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)...

known in Antiquity Emode, a computer architecture used by the Burroughs large systems Emode.com, a media company Imode (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

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

Felix Cilk Mainframe computers using the Burroughs Large Systems architecture and running the MCP operating system can spawn multiple tasks within the same...

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

designed to be targeted by a specific high-level language. The Burroughs large systems were target machines for ALGOL 60, for example. Computer programming...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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

the system implementation uses the MMU in some way, this will not be at all visible at the MCP level. Memory controller Burroughs large systems descriptors...

Burroughs large systems, which have a data-driven tagged and descriptor-based architecture, and the non-commercial Rice Computer. Both the Burroughs and...

Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation...