This article is about the Burroughs Corporation. Other famous people with the surname of Burroughs include:

• William Seward Burroughs (1857-1898), US inventor
  
• Augusten Burroughs (b. 1965), American writer
  
• William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), author and grandson of William Seward Burroughs
  
• William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947-1981), author, son of William S. Burroughs, and great grandson of William Seward Burroughs.
  
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), American author of Tarzan fame

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A Burroughs Class 1/Model 9 adding machine.

The company moved to Detroit in 1904 and changed its name to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, in honor of Burroughs, who died in 1898. Burroughs grew into the biggest adding machine company in America, although by the 1950s it was selling more than the basic adding machines, including typewriters and computers. hpmuseum wsb granddads invention This work is copyrighted. ... hpmuseum wsb granddads invention This work is copyrighted. ... This article refers to the largest city of Michigan. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...

In 1953 the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions. This move began with the purchase of ElectoData in Pasadena, California. The first major computer product that came from this marriage was the B205 Tube computer. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

The Burroughs Corporation developed three highly innovative architectures. All three architectures were considered "main-frame" class machines: Computer architecture is the theory behind the design of a computer. ...

• The "Burroughs distended systems" machines starting with the B5000 in 1961 were stack machines designed to be programmed in an extended Algol 60. Their operating systems, called MCP (Master Control Program - the name later borrowed by the screenwriters for Tron), were programmed in ESPOL (Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language, a minor extension of Algol) almost a decade before Unix, and the command interface developed into a compiled structured language with procedures called WFL (Work Flow Language).
• Burroughs produced the B2000 or "medium systems" computers aimed primarily at the business world. The machines were architected to execute Cobol efficiently. This included a BCD Binary Coded Decimal based arithmetic unit, storing and addressing the main memory using Base 10 numbering instead of binary.
• Burroughs produced the B1700 or "small Systems" that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the application being run.

Burroughs Corporation was always a distant second to IBM commercially if not technologically. At the same time, Burroughs was very much a competitor and just like IBM, Burroughs tried to supply a complete answer for its customers. This included providing Burroughs designed Printers, Disk Drives, Tape Drives, etc. even to the point of providing computer paper! // Background The B5000 was designed in 1961 by a team at Burroughs under the leadership of Robert (Bob) Barton. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... In computer science, a stack machine is a model of computation in which the computers memory takes the form of a stack. ... ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a programming language originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Background The Master Control Program (MCP) was the operating system of the B5000 and its successors (the Bnm00 series, A Series of the 1980s, to todays Unisys ClearPath machines). ... Tron is a 1982 Walt Disney Productions science fiction movie starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Lora (and Yori) and Dan Shor as Ram. ... ESPOL (short for Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language) was a compiler for an ALGOL 60 superset that provided capabilities of that would later be known as Mohols, machine oriented high order languages, such as interrupting a processor on a multiprocessor system (the Burroughs B5000 was a dual-processor system). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ... Structured programming can be seen as a subset or subdiscipline of procedural programming, one of the major programming paradigms. ... Work Flow Language, or WFL (pronounced woofle) was developed for the B5000 line of computers and its operating system Master Control Program. ... The B2000 series of machines was built in Pasadena, California and was aimed straight at the business world. ... COBOL is a third-generation programming language. ... Binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a numeral system used in computing and in electronics systems. ... The Burroughs B1000 Series machines consisted of three major generations. ... In general terms, a virtual machine in computer science is software that creates an environment between the computer platform and the end user in which the end user can operate software. ... A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ...

Burroughs was one of the eight major computer companies (with IBM - the largest, Honeywell, Scientific Data Systems, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC) through most of the 1960s. A computer is a device or machine for processing information according to a program — a compiled list of instructions. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... Honeywell NYSE: HON is a major American multinational corporation that produces electronic control systems and automation equipment. ... Scientific Data Systems was a computer company started in 1961 by Max Palevsky, a veteran of Packard-Bell and Bendix. ... Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. ... The General Electric Company, or GE, NYSE: GE is a multinational technology and services company. ... RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

Later, this group became known as the BUNCH - (Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell) The group of competitors (mainframe computer manufacturers) to IBM in the 1960s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... NCR can refer to several topics: National Capital Region. ... Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. ... Honeywell NYSE: HON is a major American multinational corporation that produces electronic control systems and automation equipment. ...

In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys Corporation. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century. ... Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) is a provider of information technology services and solutions with operations across the world. ...