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From: sa... Sarr J. Blumson
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:42

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In article <bbnugj$7bl$1...@si05.rsvl.unisys.com>,
Chuck Stevens <charles...@unisys.com> wrote:
>
>"John Ahlstrom" <jahl...@cisco.com> wrote in message
>news:3EDF6967.EF1D4B6@cisco.com...
>
>> Anyone know how many USER uProgrammable
>> machines were sold, how many uprogrammed by
>> users?

[...]

>Thus, the answer to the first question is "No less than the number of
>Burroughs B1700, B1800 and B1900 computer systems ever sold", even though
>the answer to the second is arguably "few".

My understanding is that language subsystems for the B1x00s actually
played with the microcode, so that the architecture was different
if you were running a FORTRAN program than if you were running a COBOL
program.

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