In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/09/2006
at 04:24 PM, Clark Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>As I understood Chuck Stevens who was the Unisys COBOL representative
>to ANSI X3J4 and a member of the technical support team for their
>compilers, Burroughs large scale B7500 and beyond which I believe
>became the A series,
The B6500 and B7500 were the original processors in the line that
succeeded the B5000[1] line. As I recall there were B6700, B7700,
B6800 and B7800 processors in the line prior to the merger with UNIVAC
and the renaming of the line.
>stopped supporting full decimal arithmetic
Do you mean that they stopped including the operators in the
processors or only that the compilers stopped generating code for
them?
[1] Despite what you may have read, the B5000, B5500, etc. had
radically different architecture for the B6500 and its friends.
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