Burroughs is absolutely fascinating. In the video they mention: 2:50 Simulation, which I assume actually means a combination of integration and unit testing.

Burroughs is absolutely fascinating. In the video they mention: 2:50 Simulation, which I assume actually means a combination of integration and unit testing. 3:52 compiler language! i.e. non-machine language 6:05 Some kind of integrated documentation process, I guess akin to rejecting commits that don't have docstrings / sphinx docs included 6:37 "production unit" I wonder if that's where the terminology of "production server" comes from 7:40 list of features including dual processors (SMP), virtual memory! 9:00 simultaneous software & hardware design process + automated wire routing magic ... This company lasted from 1886 building adding machines to 1986 when it got merged with another company to form Unisys, which I guess didn't do so well after that. That's a 100-year-old computer company! Some company records were stored in UMN, would be interesting to dig into that sometime: http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00090a http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa... Also important to know that Dijkstra was a Burroughs research fellow. Must have been an amazing place to work at. More interesting stuff: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107105/1/oh098b5c.pdf http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107105/1/oh098b5c.pdf http://www.academia.edu/1522947/Too_far_ahead_of_its_time_Barclays_Burroughs_and_real-time_banking http://www.academia.edu/1522947/Too_far_ahead_of_its_time_Ba... http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html