Buroughs L5000 available

[M H Stein]

From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
Subject: Re: Buroughs L5000 available 

In article <01C65F0C.7BCFCCA0 at mse-d03>,
    M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net>  writes:

>> Carriage movement literally "stepped" through the "program", and the
>> location & length of the pins were the machine language (in the truest
>> sense:) instruc tions. Parallel processing of a sort, since each program
>> step had multiple instructi ons; i.e. you would read the keyboard,
>> add & subtract the accumulator and up to 18 registers, and print,
>> all in one operation.

>The first VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture? :-)

Exactly! A 10 bit decimal data bus and a 20-or-so nybble-wide instruction bus;
as a matter of fact, one used a nibbling tool to cut the pins... :)

mike