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For those of you who, like me, had no idea what Burroughs was: An old American business equipment company. Roughly: American Arithmometer Company (1886) → The
by alanh 15y ago
For those of you who, like me, had no idea what Burroughs was: An old American business equipment company.
Roughly: American Arithmometer Company (1886) → The Burroughs Corporation (1904 rename) → (1986 merger) Unisys.
- gruseom 15y agoIt's more than that. Burroughs was the mind-blowing innovator of the mainframe era. Look up the Burroughs B5000, which Alan Kay has been raving about for years as still in some ways more advanced than anything that has come since (or at least, anything popular). We had a few threads about it on HN a month or two ago; one of them was the article the GP is linking to. I highly recommend reading the whole thing.