languages. "Burroughs Large Systems" referred to all of these large-system product lines together, in contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems (B2000... 86 KB (10,280 words) - 20:41, 8 February 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,026 words) - 05:02, 12 March 2024 |
They were also known as Burroughs Medium Systems, by contrast with the Burroughs Large Systems and Burroughs Small Systems. The B2500 and B3500 computers... 12 KB (1,651 words) - 21:27, 1 April 2024 |
is the operating system of the Burroughs B5000/B5500/B5700 and the B6500 and successors, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. MCP was originally... 37 KB (5,597 words) - 02:00, 7 March 2024 |
The Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set includes the set of valid operations for the Burroughs B6500, B7500 and later Burroughs large systems, including... 29 KB (4,040 words) - 08:21, 8 May 2023 |
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... 7 KB (716 words) - 15:30, 11 April 2024 |
known as the Burroughs Small Systems, by contrast with the Burroughs Large Systems (B5000, B6000, B7000, B8000) and the Burroughs Medium Systems (B2000, B3000... 8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:23, 1 April 2024 |
(the Burroughs large systems were multiprocessor systems). ESPOL was used to write the Master Control Program (MCP) on Burroughs computer systems from... 2 KB (109 words) - 04:53, 22 April 2024 |
between primary and secondary storage and reduced memory fragmentation. The Burroughs Corporation B5000 computer was one of the first to implement segmentation... 17 KB (2,134 words) - 04:30, 15 April 2024 |
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... 8 KB (668 words) - 03:16, 29 August 2023 |
(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)... 18 KB (2,346 words) - 08:41, 27 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (527 words) - 12:34, 13 January 2024 |
The Burroughs Corporation (which later merged with Sperry/Univac to form Unisys) offered an alternative to S/360 with their Burroughs large systems B5000... 41 KB (5,590 words) - 08:46, 25 April 2024 |
Felix Cilk Mainframe computers using the Burroughs Large Systems architecture and running the MCP operating system can spawn multiple tasks within the same... 4 KB (532 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2024 |
Library, the national library of Japan Network Definition Language Burroughs large systems compiler Network Description Language No Decompression Limit, the... 1 KB (198 words) - 11:25, 10 April 2024 |
known in Antiquity Emode, a computer architecture used by the Burroughs large systems Emode.com, a media company Imode (disambiguation) This disambiguation... 320 bytes (68 words) - 00:24, 18 February 2020 |
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... 3 KB (398 words) - 17:31, 29 January 2024 |
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... 33 KB (2,518 words) - 10:31, 23 April 2024 |
designed to be targeted by a specific high-level language. The Burroughs large systems were target machines for ALGOL 60, for example. Computer programming... 17 KB (2,013 words) - 03:27, 20 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,584 words) - 13:06, 28 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (359 words) - 21:19, 13 January 2023 |
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.... 37 KB (3,584 words) - 14:57, 23 April 2024 |
CANDE (category Burroughs mainframe computers) Program) operating system which runs on the Unisys Clearpath series of mainframes. Originally implemented on Burroughs large systems, it has a range of... 7 KB (777 words) - 12:41, 3 June 2023 |
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... 11 KB (982 words) - 11:49, 21 April 2024 |
and minicomputers were stack machines, the most famous being the Burroughs large systems. Other examples include the CISC HP 3000 machines and the CISC... 38 KB (4,615 words) - 02:56, 13 April 2024 |
Burroughs large systems, which have a data-driven tagged and descriptor-based architecture, and the non-commercial Rice Computer. Both the Burroughs and... 4 KB (379 words) - 19:11, 8 August 2023 |