So you're using your B6700 as the single big mainframe at your university ('big' is relative here your phone is almost a 1000 times faster and has a 5000 times

So you're using your B6700 as the single big mainframe at your university ('big' is relative here your phone is almost a 1000 times faster and has a 5000 times as much memory and 'disk' storage at one 1,000,000th the price - we bought 1.5Mb for ours for a million dollars) You're a full professor, very important in the world, and you're running a big multi-hour data analysis run and the compsci student at the terminal next to you is writing a compiler (that would have been me) - every time they test their compiler code the system crashes and scribbles garbage over the hard drive a day later they've recovered the disk and that student is sitting there again ..... you go and see the powers that be Basically if you wanted to write a compiler for this multi-million dollar platform you needed to have one for yourself ..... only one I know of was written outside Burroughs (UCSD Pascal) - my compilers were all interpreted until we got a Vax