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The '''Burroughs B5000''' was an influential early (1961) [[mainframe]] computer. Since it was Burroughs' first internally-developed machine, they sought to try and catch up to their competitors (such as [[International Business Machines|IBM]]) by including a number of advanced aspects from the forefront of computer science.

One important novelty was its support of [[segmentation]], which was used to provide [[virtual memory]]. It was also heavily [[stack]]-oriented at the [[instruction]] level.

It supported [[COBOL]] and [[ALGOL]], but not (initially) [[FORTRAN]], since ALGOL was viewed as superior. In another influential novelty, its [[operating system]], the [[Master Control Program]] was written in ALGOL, in part since it was intended that the machine need not support being programmed in [[assembly language]].

It was followed by the [[Burroughs B5500]] and [[Burroughs B5700]]; redesigns led to the [[Burroughs B6500]] and [[Burroughs B6700]] family.

==External links==

* [https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2010/fall/cs441/proj1/b5000/ Burroughs B5000 Computer]

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	One important novelty was its support of [[segmentation]], which was used to provide [[virtual memory]]. It was also heavily [[stack]]-oriented at the [[instruction]] level.		One important novelty was its support of [[segmentation]], which was used to provide [[virtual memory]]. It was also heavily [[stack]]-oriented at the [[instruction]] level.

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 One important novelty was its support of [[segmentation]], which was used to provide [[virtual memory]]. It was also heavily [[stack]]-oriented at the [[instruction]] level.
-It supported [[COBOL]] and [[ALGOL]], but not (initially) [[FORTRAN]], since ALGOL was viewed as superior. In another influential novelty, its [[operating system]], the [[Master Control Program]] was written in ALGOL, in part since it was intended that the machine need not support being programmed in [[assembly language]].
+It supported [[COBOL]] and [[ALGOL]], but not (initially) [[FORTRAN]], since ALGOL was viewed as superior. In another influential novelty, its [[operating system]], the [[Master Control Program]], was written in ALGOL, in part since it was intended that the machine need not support being programmed in [[assembly language]].
-It was followed by the [[Burroughs B5500]] and [[Burroughs B5700]]; redesigns led to the [[Burroughs B6500]] and [[Burroughs B6700]] family.
+It was followed by the [[Burroughs B5500]] and [[Burroughs B5700]]; re-designs led to the [[Burroughs B6500]] and [[Burroughs B6700]] family.
 ==External links==