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Burroughs and B205
While in 1956 it branded as the B205 a machine produced by a company it bought, its first internally developed 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.

Burroughs and hardware
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.
Experiments with hardware support in high-level languages in the late 1960s led to such languages as PL / S, BLISS, BCPL, and extended ALGOL for Burroughs large systems being used for low-level programming.
Experiments with hardware support in high level languages in the late 1960s led to such languages as PL / S, BLISS, BCPL, and extended ALGOL for Burroughs large systems.
The B6500 and similar Burroughs computers performed bound checking via hardware, irrespective of which computer language had been compiled to produce the machine code.
Some Burroughs stack machines do support up-level refs directly in the hardware, with specialized address modes and a special ' display ' register file holding the frame addresses of all outer scopes.
Unlike IBM, which faced hardware competition after the departure of Gene Amdahl, Burroughs software was designed only to run on proprietary hardware.
The three Burroughs architectures represent solving this problem by building hardware aligned with high-level languages.
* computer hardware as in Burroughs B5000, Lisp machine, etc.
The Burroughs B6500 had such a display in hardware that supported up to 32 levels of static nesting.

Burroughs and has
The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
Cronenberg has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences.
Burroughs has also used this technique extensively in his other novels, particularly the tales of Pellucidar.
Burroughs has had many imitators and inspired many nostalgic references.
The latter architecture has continued to evolve into their current zSeries mainframes which, along with the then Burroughs and Sperry ( now Unisys ) MCP-based and OS1100 mainframes, are among the few mainframe architectures still extant that can trace their roots to this early period.
During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.
William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.
With a firm knowledge of classical music and Russian literature, she has been described by Schreiber as a " far-out Socialist Labor Party hippie bohemian freak who hung out with William Burroughs.
The ECC also produces numerous audio experiments, such as the disfiguring of compact discs in live performance, known as " CDestruction ", and has produced a few video works as well, ranging from re-edited 50's corporate shorts to a Teddy Ruxpin reciting the works of William S. Burroughs.
Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs ' character Tarzan.
While the list of those serving has not been preserved, among those who are known to have been in the Continental army were Thomas Thompson, Major Thomas Frothingham, Ebenezer Lane, Daniel Peck, David Arnold, Henry Wetby, Joseph Huntington, John Croat and Robert Burroughs: Among those serving in the War of 1812 were Peter Sipperly, Philip Snyder, Paul Wattenpaugh and Philip Lafite.
Anderson has also collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Jean Dupuy, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dave Stewart, Peter Gordon, Adrian Belew, Hector Zazou, and Lou Reed.
Since the 1986 marriage of Burroughs and Sperry, Unisys has metamorphosed from a computer manufacturer to a computer services and outsourcing firm, competing in the same marketplace as IBM, Electronic Data Systems ( EDS ), and Computer Sciences Corporation.
She has become legendary as the wife of William S. Burroughs, documented in Kerouac's novels, and killed by Burroughs in a drunken game of William Tell.
This book has been described by William S. Burroughs as " the most concise statement of the logic of modern magic.
He has cited Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Bernhard, Edgar Allan Poe, Bruno Schulz, Emil Cioran and William S. Burroughs among his favorite writers.
The initial simplicity of Burroughs ' well-worn pursuit plot is elaborated by Hadron's rescue of an escaped slave, Tavia, from a band of six-limbed green Tharks, en route to the city of Jahar where Hadron believes Sanoma Tora has been taken.
John Burroughs has long had a school philosophy of liberal and progressive education.
MICDS has a standing athletic rivalry with the nearby John Burroughs School, which MICDS has beaten 29 out of the last 31 years in football.
Since Cortázar ’ s death in 1984, there has been a great deal of ambiguity regarding the classification of the ‘ novel without genre .’ Works such as William S. Burroughs ' 1962 novel, The Ticket That Exploded, and Thomas Pynchon's V., published the same year as Hopscotch, have earned similar reputations.
* It has been claimed that the novel impressed the Beat Generation writers in the 1960s such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
The MCP was the first commercial OS to provide virtual memory, which has been supported by the Burroughs large systems architecture since its inception.

Burroughs and appeared
It later appeared as a complete novel only after the success of Burroughs ' Tarzan series.
Bono of U2 cites Burroughs as a major influence, and Burroughs appeared briefly in a U2 video in 1997.
His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Beat generation poet William Burroughs also appeared.
An example of the cross-over of beatnik poetry and music can be seen when Burroughs appeared at the Phun City festival, organised in 24 – 26 July 1970 by Mick Farren with underground community bands including the Pretty Things, the Pink Fairies, The Edgar Broughton Band and, from America, The MC5.
His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series.
and author William S. Burroughs collaborated on a new version of " Star Me Kitten ", a song that had originally appeared on the band's 1992 album Automatic for the People.
Many of Burroughs ' essays first appeared in popular magazines.
The first author to achieve a large market for this type of story was Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose Barsoom series ' first installments appeared in the pulp All-Story in 1912.
Numerous reprints of the book appeared in the 1960s and 1970s once Burroughs achieved notability with Naked Lunch, with the work now credited under his real name.
These ideas, which may have already have occurred to Burroughs, appeared to be highly inspirational.
He appeared to die in 1886, leaving instructions for a fictionalized Burroughs, who refers to him as an ' uncle ' of the family, to entomb him in a crypt, and leaving Burroughs with the manuscript of A Princess of Mars with instructions not to publish it for another 21 years.
In addition to these, she appeared as a villainess in Tarzan and the Huntress ( 1947 ), the penultimate film starring Johnny Weissmuller as Edgar Rice Burroughs ' jungle hero.

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