What (who) is Burroughs 220 - definition

RANGE OF MAINFRAME COMPUTERS IN THE 1960S AND 70S

B5000; Burroughs B5000; B5500; B5700; Burroughs B6700; Burroughs B5500; Burroughs B7700; Burroughs B5700; DCALGOL; Burroughs B8500; Burroughs large systems

Datatron

EARLY FAMILY OF COMPUTERS

Burroughs 220

The Datatron is a family of decimal vacuum tube computers developed by ElectroData Corporation and first shipped in 1954. The Datatron was later marketed by Burroughs Corporation after Burroughs acquired ElectroData in 1956.

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Edward Burroughs

BISHOP OF RIPON; DEAN OF BRISTOL; BRITISH ANGLICAN BISHOP

Edward Arthur Burroughs; Ed Burroughs; Eddie Burroughs; Edward Burroughs (bishop)

Edward Arthur BurroughsNPG details (1 October 1882 – 23 August 1934) was an English writer and Anglican bishop.Open Library

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Williana Burroughs

AMERICAN COMMUNIST POLITICAL ACTIVIST

Williana Jones; Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones Burroughs; Liane Burroughs; Liana Burroughs; Liane Jones Burroughs; Williana

Williana "Liana" Jones Burroughs (January 2, 1882 – December 24, 1945) was an American teacher, communist political activist, and politician. She is best remembered as one of the first women to run for elective office in New York.

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Burroughs Large Systems

The Burroughs Large Systems Group produced a family of large 48-bit mainframes using stack machine instruction sets with dense syllables. The first machine in the family was the B5000 in 1961. It was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, using single-pass compilers. It evolved into the B5500. Subsequent major redesigns include the B6500/B6700 line and its successors, as well as the separate B8500 line.

In the 1970s, the Burroughs Corporation was organized into three divisions with very different product line architectures for high-end, mid-range, and entry-level business computer systems. Each division's product line grew from a different concept for how to optimize a computer's instruction set for particular programming languages. "Burroughs Large Systems" referred to all of these large-system product lines together, in contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems (B2000, B3000, and B4000) or the flexible-architecture Small Systems (B1000).

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