Burroughs B1955

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Fri Jul 23 20:05:27 2004

It was written...
> It's cool because there wasn't a single macroinstruction set.
> The operating system and every language had its own pagable
> microcode.
Ok, now THAT is cool. Pageable on the fly? Nifty. Reminds me of a Microdata
Reality M1600 that I had many years ago. The ROM board had been replaced by
an EEPROM board, and you could change the macroinstruction execution (and
define new ones). But that was a special development version of the system.
The Burroughs is production. Way cool.

Jay
Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 20:05:27 BST