The irony here is that William S. Burroughs, the Beat Generation writer of notorious style and content, was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Corpora

The irony here is that William S. Burroughs, the Beat Generation writer of notorious style and content, was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Corporation, which made some very impressive enterprise-class computing devices for their time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation