Re: [fonc] Question about the Burroughs B5000 series and apability-based computing

2012-05-28 Thread Alan Kay
ters, etc.) The low level tasks replaced almost all the usual hardware on a normal computer: disk and display and keyboard controllers, general I/O, even refresh for the DRAM, etc. This was a great design: about 160 MSI chips plus memory. Cheers, Alan >_____

Re: [fonc] Question about the Burroughs B5000 series and apability-based computing

2012-05-27 Thread Shawn Morel
Kevin, I'll quote one of my earlier questions to the list - in it I had a few pointers that you might find a useful starting place. > In the videotaped presentation from HIPK > (http://www.bradfuller.com/squeak/Kay-HPIK_2011.mp4) you made reference to > the Burroughs 5000-series implementing