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Web-based emulator and operating environment for the Burroughs B5500 computer system.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2015-09-30 · latest 2021-01-28

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  1. …SAGE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environm... B5500 https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems#B5000 http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burroug
    comment by contingencies · 2021-01-28 · in Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)
  2. …and extended I/O features. Documentation is also available on bitsavers.org." I see also: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 "Web-based emulator and operating environment for the Burroughs B5500 computer system."
    comment by acqq · 2018-06-22 · in 1971 B5500 Eliza clone written in Lispified Algol
  3. More interesting links about B5500 https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...
    comment by ontouchstart · 2016-08-04 · in In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
  4. …also an excellent open-source project with an emulator and a lot of software available to run: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500/
    comment by pmcjones · 2016-01-01 · in The Architecture of the Burroughs B-5000 (1982)
  5. Source-code here: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 including Kildall's APL implementation (still needs to be proof read), but also note that Niklaus Wirth's programming language predecessor to Pascal known as Euler is there too.…
    comment by nigwil_ · 2015-09-30 · in APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (1970) [pdf]