Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t...
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:49PM
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Ah the old Burroughs architecture. It truly was ahead of its time. Although some of its operating systems were pretty atrocious (I'm looking at you CANDE).
One of the really cool things that is possible these days is to build nearly all first, second, and third generation CPU architectures out of a 'student' FPGA kit. If you ever want to get a visceral sense of how computers work I can recommend building the whole thing.
My personal favorite tool for that is the Altera DE-2 [1] because it already has the lights and switches :-)
One of the really cool things that is possible these days is to build nearly all first, second, and third generation CPU architectures out of a 'student' FPGA kit. If you ever want to get a visceral sense of how computers work I can recommend building the whole thing.
My personal favorite tool for that is the Altera DE-2 [1] because it already has the lights and switches :-)
[1] http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de2/un...