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Design of the Burroughs B1700 (1972) [pdf]
- viburnum 8y agoA few years ago there was an article like this about an old computer on HN that mentioned France's complicated railway workers pension system. Anybody have a link to that? It was super interesting.
- acqq 8y agoIn some aspects, more details are in the earlier (1972) text by the same author: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_burroughsBgnImpMay72_2101971 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_burroughsBgnImpMay72_2...
- slededit 8y agoIts interesting they essentially passed all memory reads through a barrel shifter right in the critical path. This would have been a huge performance bottleneck had the platform survived. It is very flexible, but... costly.