• Descriptors are an architectural feature of Burroughs large systems, including the current (as of 2006) Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. Apart from being...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • architectures, segment descriptors are a part of the segmentation unit, used for translating a logical address to a linear address. Segment descriptors describe the...
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  • or as a hardware structure in some computers such as Burroughs large systems. Data descriptors are typically used at run-time to pass argument information...
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    some way, this will not be at all visible at the MCP level. Burroughs large systems descriptors Memory controller Memory protection unit Memory Management...
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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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  • An access descriptor contains permission bits and a 26-bit object index; the object index is an index into a table of object descriptors, giving an object...
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    the Real-Time Basic (RTB) system to support large-scale time sharing, also patterned after the Dartmouth BASIC system. Burroughs Corporation introduced the...
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    is adopted in OS kernels". Burroughs (1964). Burroughs B5500 Information Processing System Reference Manual (PDF). Burroughs Corporation. 1021326. Retrieved...
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    information pushed onto the stack Program descriptors on the Burroughs B5000 line Program descriptors on the Burroughs B6500 line The second generation saw...
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  • Capability-based addressing (category Capability systems)
    segment descriptors in the Burroughs large systems, and it was used to protect capabilities in the IBM System/38. The System/38 CPF operating system supported...
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    mainframe operating systems Just a few years after Atlas Supervisor, Burroughs MCP and GECOS VMS was unrelated to the VMS system for the DEC VAX. Program...
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  • 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...
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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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  • PL/I (category Systems programming languages)
    July 2021. Burroughs Corporation, B 6700/B 7700: PL/I Language Reference Manual, Reference 5001530, Detroit, 1977. Sperry-Univac Computer Systems, SPERRY...
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    of the system. However they would subsequently withdraw it from active marketing at the end of 1966. In total at least 6 sites ran GE 645 systems in the...
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    administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as large-scale batch...
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  • Some of the earliest commercial non-IBM channel systems were on the UNIVAC 490, CDC 1604, Burroughs B5000, UNIVAC 1107 and GE 635. Since then, channel...
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    Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS)". Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS). International Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS). Karunya University;...
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    the movable 'top' of the stack; the DR register is used for holding descriptors for addressing into the heap, and so on. There are also two 32-bit pointers...
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  • Operational Characteristics of the Processors for the Burroughs B5000 (PDF). Revision A. Burroughs Corporation. 1963. 5000-21005. Retrieved 8 February 2024...
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    preprocessor into their systems. SIMSCRIPT is an application specific Fortran preprocessor for modeling and simulating large discrete systems. The F programming...
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  • indirect addressing. Some mainframes designed in the 1960s, such as the Burroughs B5000 and its successors, used memory segmentation to perform index-bounds...
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  • ARIANE-78 machine translation system. In 1974, when he cofounded the Leibniz laboratory, he proposed "multilevel structure descriptors" (descripteurs de structures...
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    system with a generic assembler. One exception to the use of assembly was the use of ALGOL 60 for the Paisley XBASIC interpreter for Burroughs large systems...
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    Amsterdam Historic District. Most notably, in 1904, Burroughs Adding Machine Company built a large factory on Third, and the following year Cadillac built...
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    Jehovah's Witnesses (category Religious belief systems founded in the United States)
    Another 1,001 field missionaries serve in the circuit work. Sources for descriptors: Millenarian: Beckford 1975, pp. 118–119, 151, 200–201 Restorationist:...
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  • "sword and planet" more directly imitates the conventions established by Burroughs in the Barsoom series. Dying Earth: A subgenre of science fantasy that...
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    From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including...
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