The Burroughs Corporation and Its Innovative Architecture

Stephen H. Kaisler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

450 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8457-0 (ISBN)

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This book surveys the history of the Burroughs Corporation, from its earliest days as a computer system vendor up to the late 1990s after its merger with Univac Corporation to form Unisys. The Burroughs Corporation was one of the earliest manufacturers of large mainframe computers through its purchase of Datatron. Burroughs developed four more generations of mainframe computer systems, culminating in the B2x00/3x00/4x00 family of machines. It also developed one of the most innovative computer architectures in the B5x00/6x00/7x00 family. These systems featured direct execution of high-level language programs, stack-based and tagged architectures, multiprocessing, and early virtualization through descriptors. Burroughs’ early work on the ILLIAC IV led to the development of the D825 for SAGE and the B8500, the former a notable success and the latter less than successful. Burroughs’ foray into small computer systems was not financially viable, but its merger with Univac led to the formation of Unisys, where its advanced architectures survive today as counterpoints to IBM’s mainframe architectures—the two surviving manufacturers from the mainframe era.

Dr Stephen Kaisler is a semi-retired program manager and research scientist from the US Defense communities. Currently, he conducts research in natural language processing and advanced analytics. He was Technical Advisor to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the US Senate, where he was responsible for systems architecture and modernization of business operations. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at George Washington University since 2002. He has published 13 books and over 50 technical papers.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Historical Computing Machine Series
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
ISBN-10	1-5275-8457-7 / 1527584577
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8457-0 / 9781527584570
Zustand	Neuware