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Founded in the 1880s, Burroughs was the oldest continuously operating entity in computing, but by the late 1950s its computing equipment was still limited to electromechanical [[Accounting Machine|accounting machines]] such as the [[Burroughs Sensimatic|Sensimatic]]; as such it had nothing to compete with its traditional rivals [[IBM]] and [[NCR Corporation|NCR]] who had started to produce larger-scale computers, or with recently-founded [[Univac]]. The first machine, the B5000, was designed in 1961 and Burroughs sought to address its late entry in the market with the strategy of a completely different design based on the most advanced computing ideas available at the time. While the B5000 architecture is dead, it inspired the B6500, and computers using that architecture are still in production as the [[Unisys]] ClearPath MCP machines. The third and largest line<ref name=Da8500/><ref name=Ga8500/> was a dead end. In addition to the proprietary [[CMOS]] architecture, Unisys also uses Intel [[Xeon]] processors, and runs [[Burroughs MCP|MCP]], [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Linux]] operating systems on their servers. | Founded in the 1880s, Burroughs was the oldest continuously operating entity in computing, but by the late 1950s its computing equipment was still limited to electromechanical [[Accounting Machine|accounting machines]] such as the [[Burroughs Sensimatic|Sensimatic]]; as such it had nothing to compete with its traditional rivals [[IBM]] and [[NCR Corporation|NCR]] who had started to produce larger-scale computers, or with recently-founded [[Univac]]. The first machine, the B5000, was designed in 1961 and Burroughs sought to address its late entry in the market with the strategy of a completely different design based on the most advanced computing ideas available at the time. While the B5000 architecture is dead, it inspired the B6500, and computers using that architecture are still in production as the [[Unisys]] ClearPath MCP machines. The third and largest line<ref name=Da8500/><ref name=Ga8500/> was a dead end. In addition to the proprietary [[CMOS]] architecture, Unisys also uses Intel [[Xeon]] processors, and runs [[Burroughs MCP|MCP]], [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Linux]] operating systems on their servers. | ||
