And while it was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, Burroughs also produced related equipment as well, including typewriters and printers.

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 also suggested cut-ups may be effective as a form of divination saying, " When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Burroughs has also used this technique extensively in his other novels, particularly the tales of Pellucidar.

With the assistance of Grech and one of the bassist's friends, a doctor who also dabbled in country music and is now known as Hank Wangford, Parsons managed to kick his heroin habit once and for all ( a treatment suggested by William Burroughs proved unsuccessful ).

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

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.

At the time, his favorites were also Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, as well as comic books.

The first computers to implement architectures enabling RPN were the English Electric Company's KDF9 machine, which was announced in 1960 and delivered ( i. e. made available commercially ) in 1963, and the American Burroughs B5000, announced in 1961 and also delivered in 1963.

Of them, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs — both Greenwich Village residents — also wrote bluntly and honestly about homosexuality.

William S. Burroughs also guests on vocals on "' Tain't No Sin ".

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.

He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., who was also a writer.

Thoreau also influenced naturalists like John Burroughs, John Muir, E. O. Wilson, Edwin Way Teale, Joseph Wood Krutch, B. F. Skinner, David Brower and Loren Eiseley, whom Publishers Weekly called " the modern Thoreau.

" Burroughs also mentioned it in The Yage Letters: " At that time I was stationed at the remote jungle outpost of Candiru, so named from a tiny eel like fish that infests the rivers of that area.

In 2009 Oneworld Publications reissued Man at Leisure ( 1972 ), complete with the original introduction by William Burroughs, and in 2011 Oneworld Publications also re-released Cain's Book, with a foreword by Tom McCarthy.

They were also known as the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and finally Unisys ICON when Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to form Unisys in 1986.

Musicians also cite writers such as William S. Burroughs, and philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche as influences.

In September 1968, Smithson published the essay " A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects " in Artforum that promoted the work of the first wave of land art artists, and in 1969 he began producing land art pieces to further explore concepts gained from his readings of William S. Burroughs, J. G.

In this edition, Burroughs removed 82 pages and inserted 82 new pages, and the remaining 100 pages were rearranged and restructured using further cut-ups.

After further work on the novel, and further correspondence with Metcalf, which included suggestions for plot devices and structural changes, Burroughs submitted the finished novel.

On November 4, 1911, Burroughs received the acceptance letter from Metcalf, offering $ 400 for the serialization rights, with the request to change the title and further edit the opening section of the novel.

Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities.

The Burroughs Corporation developed three highly innovative architectures, based on the design philosophy of " language directed design ".

* Burroughs developed a half-size version of the D825 called the D82, cutting the word size from 48 to 24 bits and simplifying the computer's instruction set.

From his peers he developed a taste for counterculture: he and his friends would steal the records and books of their older siblings – William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mothers of Invention.

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.

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.

Many terminal emulators have been developed for terminals such as VT100, VT220, VT320, IBM 3270 / 8 / 9 / E, IBM 5250, IBM 3179G, Data General D211, Hewlett Packard HP700 / 92, Sperry / Unisys 2000-series UTS60, Burroughs / Unisys A-series T27 / TD830 / ET1100, ADDS ViewPoint, Sun console, QNX, AT386, SCO-ANSI, SNI 97801, Televideo, and Wyse 50 / 60.

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

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

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.

Libraries were introduced to MCP systems in the early 1980s having been developed by Roy Guck and others at Burroughs.

He managed a system programming group in 1959 which developed an ALGOL-like compiler for Burroughs.

Memetic Engineering developed from diverse influences, including cutting-edge physics of consciousness and memetics research, chaos theory, semiotics, culture jamming, military information warfare, and the viral texts of iconoclasts William S. Burroughs, J. G.

Gysin introduced Burroughs to the technique at the Beat Hotel.

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

Burroughs ' use of experimentation such as the cut-up technique and his appropriation of science fiction tropes in radical ways proved the extent to which prose fiction could prove revolutionary, and many New Wave writers sought to emulate this style.

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

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

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

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.

Gysin introduced Burroughs to the Cut-up technique and with Sommerville they experimented with a ' dream machine ' and audio tape cut-ups.

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.

Inspired by Burroughs ' and Gysin's technique of cutting up text and rearranging it in random order, Balch had an editor cut his footage for the documentary into little pieces and impose no control over its reassembly.

" 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.