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== Dominion Preface == | == Dominion Preface == | ||
Noting that by 2012-08 the Lede at least at the English wiki was better, more accurate. I put a lot into the article that's still there, the illustration for example, the characteristics, the point about re-entrancy. I don't expect to maintain the below, but I just learned about the B205 and apparently my long presumption that Burroughs didn't have computers in the '50s is only partially true. They just didn't make any themselves, the B205 (1956) was made by a company Burroughs purchased and | Noting that by 2012-08 the Lede at least at the English wiki was better, more accurate. I put a lot into the article that's still there, the illustration for example, the characteristics, the point about re-entrancy. I don't expect to maintain the below, but I just learned about the B205 and apparently my long presumption that Burroughs didn't have computers in the '50s is only partially true. They just didn't make any themselves, the B205 (1956) was made by a company Burroughs purchased and rebranded as their product. | ||
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==B5000== | ==B5000== | ||
The first member of the first series, the B5000,<ref name=B5000-21005/> was designed beginning in 1961 by a team under the leadership of [[Robert | The first member of the first series, the B5000,<ref name=B5000-21005/> was designed beginning in 1961 by a team under the leadership of [[:en:Robert S. Barton]]. It was a unique machine, well ahead of its time. It has been listed by the influential computing scientist [[John Mashey]] as one of the architectures that he admires the most. "I always thought it was one of the most innovative examples of combined hardware/software design I've seen, and far ahead of its time."<ref name=johnmashey> | ||
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| title = Admired designs / designs to study | | title = Admired designs / designs to study | ||
