The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of the Times?

Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by DanBC on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:50PM (#4010723)

Maybe this email list has some details?

(http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/0...)

Here's a mildly interesting rant:

(http://www.yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html)

This post doesn't give any details of the benchmark, but describes another test (boot, load word processor, open document, close wp, shut down) and compares an old mac and a (at the time) modern laptop.

(http://tekkie.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/does-computer-science...)

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Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by tedunangst on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:07PM (#4010779)

Thank you. Looks like I'm not the first to ask. Doubt I'll be the first to get an answer.

Wrt the last post, I'll note my openbsd laptop can complete that challenge before many other machines have made it past post, so all hope is not lost.

And we had wysiwyg HTML editors eons ago. The switch to online markdown editors was a trade off, but it's not like the secrets of the ancients were lost when the library of parc was burned to the ground.

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