Burroughs B1955

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Fri Jul 23 16:33:08 2004

> How old is a 1955?

Early 80's. Second to last generation of machines that started with
the B1700 in the early 70's

> What is the blinkenlight count like.

24, rotary switch, and row of paddles.

> Is it compatible with anything better-known?

B1700 -> B1800 -> B1900 (B1000)

It's cool because there wasn't a single macroinstruction set.
The operating system and every language had its own pagable
microcode.

Was saying on nerdnite last monday that Burroughs managed to
come up with some really interesting architectures for a really
boring segment of the computer industry (banking)
Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 16:33:08 BST