" Burroughs B6500 / B7500 Stack Mechanism ", SJCC ( 1968 ) pp. 245 – 251.

They also provided a Burroughs B6500 mainframe to act as a front-end controller.

While there was no successor to the B5700, the B5000 line heavily influenced the design of the B6500, and Burroughs ported the Master Control Program ( MCP ) to that machine.

The B6500 and B7500 were the first computers in the only Burroughs system to survive to the present day.

The Burroughs large systems instruction sets include the set of valid operations for the Burroughs B5000, B5500, and B5700 computers and the set of valid operations for the Burroughs B6500 and later Burroughs large systems including the current ( as of 2006 ) Unisys Clearpath / MCP systems.

The Burroughs B6500 had such a display in hardware that supported up to 32 levels of static nesting.

The rewrite of MCP for the B6500 is still in use today in the Unisys ClearPath / MCP line of computers.

NASA also decided to replace the B6500 with a PDP-10, which were in common use at Ames, but this required the development of new compilers and support software.

* The B6500 had variable length instructions with an 8-bit syllable instead of fixed length instructions with a 12-bit syllable.

* The B6500 had a 51-bit instead of a 48-bit word, and used 3 bits as a tag

* The B6500 had Symmetric Multiprocessing ( SMP )

* The B6500 had a Saguaro stack

* The B6500 had paged arrays

* The B6500 had a Display to allow nested subroutines to access variables in outer blocks.

The B5500 came a few years later ; followed by the B6500 / B6700 in the later 1960s, the B7700 in the mid 1970s, and the A series in the 1980s.

Connected to the B6500 was a laser optical recording medium, a write-once system that stored up to 1 Tbit on a plastic disk covered with a thin metal film.

Subsequent major redesigns include the B6500 / B6700 line and its successors, and the separate B8500 line.

Other pulp fantasy fiction — such as Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom series and Leigh Brackett's Sea Kings of Mars — have a similar feel to sword and sorcery, but, because alien science replaces the supernatural, it is usually described as planetary romance or sword and planet, and considered to fall more in the area of science fiction.

Based on ideas similar in concept to H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and especially Robert E. Howard, the Multiverse is mostly past tense, wherein Roberts describes ancient events that have already transpired.

Both had semantics similar to C but a syntax based on Burroughs ' ALGOL.

It now supported a complete keyboard, a " chiclet " design similar to the ones used on early models of the Commodore PET, and greatly improved the display with the addition of the Burroughs Self-Scan 32-character display.

This dimension featured primitive tribesmen, giant apes, and hostile native animals, all similar to the Tarzan books of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The Atrocity Exhibition is split up into fragments, similar to the style of William S. Burroughs, a writer whom Ballard admired.

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.

A Princess of Mars is similar to many of Burroughs ' tales: it is characterized by copious violent action.

Bradbury admired Burroughs ' stimulating romantic tales, and they were an inspiration for his The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ), which used some similar conceptions of a dying Mars.

Editor James Russell Lowell found the essay so similar to Emerson's work that he initially thought Burroughs had plagiarized his longtime acquaintance.

Burroughs concept of race in Barsoom, is more similar to species than ethnicity.

Although his philosophy on life was especially influential to Burroughs, who associated with similar characters in his early adulthood and mirrored the style of You Can't Win with his first published book, Junkie, Black's writings also had a profound effect on the writings and lives of all the Beat Generation.

This last was the basis of the similar feature in the Algol compilers offered via the Burroughs B6700 systems, using the tilda symbol to stand for the variable being assigned to, so that

Today, Novel With Cocaine counts John Updike and Will Self among its admirers and is said to have laid the path for William S. Burroughs to pen similar examinations of junky excess.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

The most promising approaches treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in mechanism from electronic computers, but similar in the sense that it acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways.

More recently, software with similar capabilities has been developed to allow manipulation of digital audio files stored on computers using turntables with special vinyl records ( e. g. Final Scratch, M-Audio Torq, Serato Scratch Live ) or computer interface ( e. g. Traktor DJ Studio, Mixxx, Virtual DJ ).

The System / 360 architecture was so popular that it dominated the mainframe computer market for decades and left a legacy that is still continued by similar modern computers like the IBM zSeries.

Today scientists and philosophers seriously debate whether computers and robots could develop a kind of consciousness ( artificial intelligence, AI ), and organic interaction ( artificial life ) similar to or exceeding that of human beings.

Freenet works by storing small encrypted snippets of content distributed on the computers of its users and connecting only through intermediate computers which pass on requests for content and sending them back without knowing the contents of the full file, similar to how routers on the Internet route packets without knowing anything about files — except with caching, a layer of strong encryption, and without reliance on centralized structures.

A help desk is an information and assistance resource that troubleshoots problems with computers or similar products.

A similar approach was used by Digital Equipment Corporation in their VAX family of computers.

These machines replaced Apple's Quadra series of personal computers, and were housed in cases very similar to systems sold by Apple up to that point.

A framebuffer is a digital device for computers which stores data in the so-called video memory ( comprising an array of Video RAM or similar chips ).

Modern computers face similar limiting factors: main memories are slow compared to the CPU and the fast cache memories employed to overcome this are limited in size.

Cardassian computers utilize data encoded on isolinear rods, in contrast to chips used for similar purposes by human-designed computers.

In this way, a machine can process knowledge itself, instead of text, using processes similar to human deductive reasoning and inference, thereby obtaining more meaningful results and helping computers to perform automated information gathering and research.

Multiple classifications may apply to a device ; for example similar dual triodes can be used for audio preamplification and as flip-flops in computers, although linearity is important in the former case and long life in the latter.

The first known presentation describing use of similar phases in software engineering was held by Herbert D. Benington at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers on 29 June 1956.

The Spectrum was among the first mainstream audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA.

It is frequently used to implement the serial port for IBM PC compatible personal computers, where it is often connected to an RS-232 interface for modems, serial mice, printers, and similar peripherals.

Intermediate System To Intermediate System ( IS-IS ), usually called is-is, is a routing protocol designed to move information efficiently within a computer network, a group of physically connected computers or similar devices.

* IBM PC compatible, computers that are generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT

The Zilog Z80 ( compatible with the 8080 ) and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers.

In the 1980s, with computers, similar coordination of whole networks became possible.