These microcomputers were later manufactured in Kunming, China for use in China under agreement with Burroughs.

* Burroughs made military computers, such as the D825 ( the " D " prefix signifying it was for defense industrial use ), in its Great Valley Laboratory in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

Some systems, such as the Burroughs B5500, use segmentation instead of paging, dividing virtual address spaces into variable-length segments.

Terminal transmission control protocols such as IBM 3270 Poll / Select, or Burroughs TD830 Contention Mode protocol use the EOT character to terminate a communications sequence between two cooperating stations ( such as a host multiplexer or Input / Output terminal ).

Writer Douglas Kahn, in his work Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts ( 1999 ), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

William Burroughs ' Naked Lunch focuses on drug use, but also contains sexual content.

Despite that, and a cost overrun due to Burroughs ' charging for the use of their facility, the computer was delivered to NASA ' a Ames Research Center outside of San Francisco in 1971.

Burroughs was able to use the basic design for only one commercial system, the Parallel Element Processing Ensemble, or PEPE.

Burroughs explicitly compares " kicking the habit " to cancer in the novel Junky, and ties it to the use of orgone accumulators.

Extremely controversial in both its subject matter and its use of obscene language ( something Burroughs recognized and intended ), the book was banned in Boston and Los Angeles in the United States, and several European publishers were harassed.

Control is the main theme of the novel, and Burroughs attempts to use language to break down the walls of culture, the biggest control machine.

The deliberate provocation and controversy of the band also saw them use the Nazi imagery of the swastika, Morton later claiming that this was influenced by William Burroughs and Lenny Bruce: " That is something we wanted, to have that provocation, we wanted to confront those issues.

Burroughs reached New York on June 23, and several days later mailed the finished typescript of what was still entitled " Carthoris ", describing it as " another Martian story " he wished " to sell for use in All-Story Cavalier Weekly ".

Burroughs chose to use the pseudonym " William Lee ", Lee being his mother's maiden name, for the writing credit.

Clear on the other hand ( released on the Stoned Heights imprint of Island Records ), bore heavy references to the writings-and infamous lifestyle-of William Burroughs: the cover was an homage to the advert poster of the Naked Lunch movie ; Bug Powder Dust was a mish-mash of Burroughs references and mirror of the author's cut-up writing method ; whilst the constant references to drug use, and the reliance on spoken word across most of the albums tracks would suggest an updated return to the Beat marriage of music and poetry.

From 1887 the Burroughs Wellcome catalogue listed under its ' Tabloids ' brand name, tablets of curare at 1 / 12 grain ( price 8 shillings ) for use in preparing a solution for hypodermic injection.

America is also an intensely personal poem, making references to Ginsberg's use of marijuana and his homosexuality, as well as fellow Beat writer William S. Burroughs.

In order to address this need, TCA added a second system known as Pioneer, which could link ReserVec's three letter passenger codes with the full passenger records held on a Burroughs D-82 computer ( originally designed for US military use ).

Along the way, Burroughs and Ginsberg share other stories and anecdotes, including some concepts Burroughs would later use in novels such as Naked Lunch.

Some mainframes designed in the 1960s, such as the Burroughs B5000 and its successors, had special instructions for array indexing that included index-bounds checking ..

In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a larger system such as a B2700 or B1700.

* Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of accounting machines including both stand-alone systems such as the Sensimatic, L500 and B80, and dedicated terminals including the TC500 and specialised check processing equipment.

* In 1964 Burroughs had also completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations.

* Burroughs computers such as the D825 at BRL

His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.

Vendors of high-performance scientific computers ( e. g., Burroughs, CDC, Cray, Honeywell, IBM, Texas Instruments, and UNIVAC ) added extensions to Fortran to take advantage of special hardware features such as instruction cache, CPU pipelines, and vector arrays.

His publication and design of the classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco to a fresh audience.

Jaynes's ideas have also influenced writers such as William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Robert J. Sawyer, Philip K. Dick, and Ken Wilber.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

* Some Sword and planet series, such as Michael Moorcock's Kane of Old Mars trilogy ( 1965 ) and Lin Carter's Mysteries of Mars ( 1973 – 1984 ) are deliberately anachronistic homages to earlier visions of Mars, particularly Burroughs '.

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.

In the 1950s, the Beat generation included speculative writers such as William S. Burroughs.

A few years earlier, naturalist John Burroughs had published an article entitled " Real and Sham Natural History " in the Atlantic Monthly, attacking popular writers of the day such as Ernest Thompson Seton, Charles G. D. Roberts and William J.

Trilogies can also be connected in less obvious ways, such as The Nova Trilogy of novels by William S. Burroughs, each written using Brion Gysin's cut-up technique.

The EOT character is used in legacy communications protocols by mainframe computer manufacturers such as IBM, Burroughs Corporation, and the BUNCH.

He wrote several articles on writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Israel Zangwill, John Burroughs, and interviewed public figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Marshall Field, Thomas Edison, and Theodore Thomas.

In 1977, Burroughs and Gysin published The Third Mind, a collection of cut-up writings and essays on the form.

William S. Burroughs taught the cut-up technique to musician Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for " altering reality ".

* UbuWeb: William S. Burroughs featuring a cut-up, K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens ( 1965 ), made with Ian Sommerville

Seth Putnam's lyrics are notorious for their black comedy, while The Locust tend toward satirical collage, indebted to William S. Burroughs ' cut-up method.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

Inspired by William S. Burroughs ' cut-up technique, Oswald had been devising plunderphonic-style compositions since the late ' 60s.

William Burroughs used the cut-up technique developed by Brion Gysin to remix language in the 1960s.

Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) is a famous example of an early novel by Burroughs based on the cut-up technique.

that employs the cut-up method made popular by William Burroughs and conceptual art methods.

Writers such as Tristan Tzara, Brion Gysin, and William Burroughs used the cut-up technique to introduce randomization to literature as a generative system.

It was written using the cut-up method, developed by Burroughs with Brion Gysin, of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel.

He took the Doom Patrol, and superhero comic books in general, to places they had rarely been, incorporating bizarre secret societies, elements of Dada, surrealism, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin.

Pastiche can also refer to compositional technique, for example the cut-up technique employed by Burroughs.

The soundtrack and film pulled influence from Gysin's " cut-up " method, which was co-developed with William S. Burroughs.

Many have likened Join My Cult! s non-linear or cut-up style to Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, and Robert Anton Wilson.

Smith's work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult, told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs.

This work is significant for fans of Burroughs, in that it describes his idea of language as a virus and his philosophy of the cut-up technique.

The name T. Raumschmiere is a cut-up from the German title of the short story " The Dream Cops " by William S. Burroughs: " Die Traumschmiere ".

" is considered a poem by some and is an early demonstration of the " cut-up technique " espoused by Burroughs in the 1960s, shuffling together fragments of sentences and thoughts from other texts to create a surreal new narrative.