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.

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

Implements tag-based architecture and ALGOL as system language like the Burroughs large systems.

However, a bright young student named Donald Knuth had previously implemented ALGOL 58 on an earlier Burroughs machine during the three months of his summer break.

The Burroughs ALGOL syntax, unlike the official language, requires that each variable ( or other object ) be declared before it is used, so it is feasible to write an ALGOL compiler that reads the data only once.

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.

An implementation for the Burroughs 220 called BALGOL evolved along its own lines as well, but retained much of ALGOL 58's original character.

ESPOL ( short for Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language ) was a superset of ALGOL 60 that provided capabilities of what would later be known as Mohols, machine oriented high order languages, such as interrupting a processor on a multiprocessor system ( the Burroughs large systems were multiprocessor processor systems ).

Originally written in 1961 in ESPOL ( Executive Systems Programming Language ), which itself was an extension of Burroughs Extended ALGOL, in the 1970s it was converted to NEWP, a better structured, more robust, and more secure form of ESPOL.

Other than the operating system itself, all system software was coded in BPL ( Burroughs Programming Language ), a systems programming language derived from ALGOL and Large System's ESPOL systems language.

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.

The powerful Burroughs COBOL compiler was also a one-pass compiler and equally fast.

Further, Burroughs Corporation produced an RPG II compiler with database extensions for its B1700 series of computers.

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

The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.

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 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

In time, Burroughs was selling more than adding machines, including typewriters.

But the biggest shift in company history came in 1953 ; the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions.

Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.

In terms of sales, Burroughs was always a distant second to IBM.

At the same time, Burroughs was very much a competitor.

In industries like banking, where continuous operations was mandatory, Burroughs large systems penetrated most every large bank, including the Federal Reserve Bank.

The designation for these systems was Burroughs B2500 through B49xx, followed by Unisys V-Series V340 through V560.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

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.

He felt the connection between his screenwriting style and Burroughs ' prose style was so strong, that he jokingly remarked that should Burroughs pass on, " I'll just write his next book.

William S. Burroughs ' first book, Junkie, was published as an Ace Double.

* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.

The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

The group of manufacturers was first known as " IBM and the Seven Dwarfs ": IBM, Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA.

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.

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.

However, very few of his works contain fantastic elements ; in most, the appearance of such is explained away, but in its themes of adventure in a strange society, this led to the adventures set in foreign lands by H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

In the 1970s, Burroughs Corporation was organized into three divisions with very different product line architectures for high-end, mid-range, and entry-level business computer systems.

Burroughs himself was very displeased with the first edition and this was the main reason for rewriting it so thoroughly: in 1961 he wrote to his friend Allen Ginsberg that he rewrote it extensively while he was working on Dead Fingers Talk, mostly because he was displeased with bad cut-ups and introduced linear material to replace it.

It has long had many facilities that are only now appearing in other widespread operating systems, and together with the Burroughs large systems architecture, the MCP provides a very secure, high performance, multitasking and transaction processing environment.

By 1914, Burroughs had become very popular with the reading public, and A. C. McClurg & Company decided to print a number of his formerly serialized tales as novels.

Ace published no hardcover books, only cheap paperbacks, which sold for very little ; Burroughs earned less than a cent royalty on each purchase.

NCR Corporation, Honeywell and Burroughs Corporation followed in the late 1940s with IBM being a very significant import when it opened a manufacturing facility in Greenock in 1953.

Burroughs and Kammerer had gone to primary school together, and as young men, they traveled together and explored Paris ’ s night life: Burroughs said Kammerer “ was always very funny, the veritable life of the party, and completely without any middle-class morality .” Kammerer met Carr when he was leading a youth group of which Carr was a member, and quickly became infatuated with the teenager.

The title is explained in the very first dream, dated 1959: Burroughs is trying to board an airplane, but a woman at the ticket counter " with the cold waxen face of an intergalactic bureaucrat " refuses him passage, informing him, " You haven't had your education yet.

He becomes infatuated with and very protective of Burroughs, who rarely returns these feelings, but still maintains a relationship with him.