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Kay mentions the Burroughs B5000. Boy you have to be an old timer to have worked on that. I did some Algol programming on the B6500, the next generation. The
by russell 15y ago
Kay mentions the Burroughs B5000. Boy you have to be an old timer to have worked on that. I did some Algol programming on the B6500, the next generation. They were stack machines, but what was interesting was that the memory words were typed in the B6500 and on. IIRC, the add instruction was not typed as it is in nearly all other machines, but it did a integer add or double add based on the tag bits of the operands. Wikipedia has a good article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
- arethuza 15y agoI think the Burroughs CANDE shell was by far the worst user environment I have every used on any system - the only nice thing (at least for Tron fans) being at least things were being fed to the MCP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP
- russell 15y agoIn those days everything was terrible. We had to deal with 360 JCL an similar abominations. You couldnt dignify them with the term shell. It was timesharing and ultimately Unix that liberated us.