retro-b5500

As We May Think https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m... The First Draft Report on the EDVAC http://history-computer.com/Library/edvac.pdf The invention of index registers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_register#History Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60 https://sci-hub.do/10.1016/s0066-4138(61)80016-5 HAKMEM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18793554 SAGE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environm... B5500 https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems#B5000 http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough... IBM 1401 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1401.html P&V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming) PASCAL – User Manual and Report http://seriouscomputerist.

Now who will write something that allows that GTL source (or the equivalent) to run? It looks quite nice conceptually as the "program" is nicely separated from the "knowledge" and the program is just 360 lines: https://github.com/retro-software/B5500-software/blob/master... The documentation for the language is here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/georgiaTech/GTL_Programmers_Ref... as http://retro-b5500.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-cube-library-tap... report: "GTL -- Georgia Tech Language. Another clone of Extended Algol by Martin Alexander at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. This compiler has significant extensions for strings, records, complex arithmetic, list processing, plex processing, and extended I/O features. Documentation is also available on bitsavers.org." I see also: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 "We

More interesting links about B5500 https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...

There's also an excellent open-source project with an emulator and a lot of software available to run: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500/

Source-code here: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 including Kildall's APL implementation (still needs to be proof read), but also note that Niklaus Wirth's programming language predecessor to Pascal known as Euler is there too. Another interesting piece of source-code you will find there too is a Burroughs B6500 emulator, B6500 MCP and B6500 ESPOL compiler written for the B5500. The B5500 was used by Burroughs as the development platform for the B6500 which was the follow-on from the B5000 family. You can see the B6500 emulator running in this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOElQuCqj0Y#t=3m37s I'm hoping we can re-create those few seconds of video once we have this B6500 software functional again.