Buroughs L5000 available - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Apr 2006

From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
Subject: Re: Buroughs L5000 available 

In article <01C65F0C.7BCFCCA0 at mse-d03>,
    M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net>  writes:

...
 > Carriage movement literally "stepped"
through the "program", and the
> location & length of the pins were the machine language (in the truest
> sense:) instruc tions. Parallel processing of a sort, since each program
> step had multiple instructi ons; i.e. you would read the keyboard,
> add & subtract the accumulator and up to 18 registers, and print,
> all in one operation. 
...
 The first VLIW (very long instruction word)
architecture? :-) 
Exactly! A 10 bit decimal data bus and a 20-or-so nybble-wide instruction bus;
as a matter of fact, one used a nibbling tool to cut the pins... :)

mike