In <kmi4p4th01jpqif5rqgihtqfdbstvra...@4ax.com>, on 02/10/2009
at 11:52 PM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> said:
>Thsey are able to run programs for which there is source in one of the
>higher level languages (the B5000, B5500, B6500, etc. series machines
>operating system was written in Algol). Various upgrades have required
>recompiles.
The B1700, B2500 and B5000 architectures are dead. I'm not aware of any
upgrade within the B6500 architecture that required a recompile.
And, yes, Ivan had the correct[1] companies for the BUNCH: Burroughs,
UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell. I believe that the other two
dwarves[2] were GE and RCA.
[1] Other than capitalization.
[2] IBM and the seven dwarves were not, however, the only companies
making computers.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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