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Section 4

Evolution of Burroughs Computers

From the inception of the B 5000, Burroughs' main-line computers have maintained and enhanced the concepts of hardware support for block-structured high-level languages. Part 1, Sec. 3, traces the evolution of the Burroughs B 5000, B 6500/B 7500, and B 6700/7700 machines. The evolution of the virtual to the physical addressing structure is outlined in Part 2, Sec. 2. Finally, Chaps. 9 and 16 discuss individual family members.


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