Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 06:10:42 05/16/01
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>>>Burroughs B5500 >> >>very slow > >About 1 MIPS was claimed, not sure if it was true. Very weird machine with a 47 >bit word, stack based. The instruction set was optimised for small code size >rather than speed. The operating systems were multi-user multi-tasking, but >there was no memory protection in the hardware. The compilers were supposed to >generate code that never mangled other programs memory, and you weren't supposed >to use assembler. I never got to use one (i'm not sure if any were even sold in >my country) so i can't vouch for how well it all worked. > >I didn't know anyone wrote a chess program for these. > All i could find about this one so far is that COKO III was written in FORTRAN IV and had been executed on IBM 7044, 360/50, 65, 91 PDP 10, UNIVAC 1108 and the B5500/6500. also The Marsland Chess Program. I am sure i will end up finding some other hardware to ask about so look out for my posts i will use the same name. Thankyou
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