John Campbell wrote:
Whenever I see one of your offerings I recall one of my lecturers from
the early 70s. A good bloke, if a little odd. A great fan of the
Burroughs B-series architecture.
Well, I've been referred to as "a bit odd"... just ask Ken Hall.
Burroughs "B" series? Which was that? A long, long time ago I
worked w/ B6700 and B7700 mainframes... where else can you find
a multi-processing system which has an instruction named "Interrupt
Other Processors" with a mnemonic of "HEYU"???
Canberra College of Advanced Education had a Burroughs B5500, which was
seriously underpowered: after our prac session (using CANDE), we were
expected to archive our valuables with something called "filemover."
I recall a simple file copy taking 20 minutes on one occasion.
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Cheers
John
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