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Re:Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf] by rbanffy on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:50PM (#30212989)
You can download an official emulator from their website. It’s proprietary and runs on Windows, and you have to sign a license promising you’ll only use it for development.

But I have to warn you: It is one of the most user hostile OSs I’ve have ever seen.

If anyone thinks vi or Emacs are hard, they should play with CANDE.

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Re:Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf] by pjmlp on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:41PM (#30213688)
Part of the technical school tranship was on OS/400 state of the art in early 1990's doing system backups to tapes, I also did my typing exam for computing in PCs running MS-DOS 3.3 with edlin, I think CANDE is manageable. :)
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Re:Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf] by rbanffy on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:30AM (#30242342)
> I think CANDE is manageable.

CANDE is not software you use. It's software you fight and submit to your will. It's a bit like Emacs, but made by people with 4-digit IQs, for people with 4-digit IQs.

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