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From: stevew@nsc.nsc.com (Steve Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: the other Unisys machines (was Burroughs stack machines)
Keywords: RISC, real-time
Message-ID: <5159@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 10 Jun 88 17:03:26 GMT
References: <1521@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1532@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <476@pcrat.UUCP> <2868@louie.udel.EDU> <370@dlscg1.UUCP> <3147@polyslo.UUCP> <10089@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <2336@winchester.mips.COM>
Reply-To: stevew@nsc.UUCP (Steve Wilson)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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In article <2336@winchester.mips.COM> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>In article <10089@ames.arc.nasa.gov> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>>I've never worked on MCP, but a friend headed their Large Systems
>>Language group in Pasadena.  The language isn't quite ALGOL, it's SPL.
>
>ALGOL = what applications were written in, along with COBOL.
>DC ALGOL = Data Communications Extended ALGOL = extended version used to
>build message control systems for datacomm.
>ESPOL = what the MCP was written in; I think it stood for
>Executive System procedure Oriented Language.
>
>I never worked on it either, although I've looked at MCP listings in ESPOL.
>-- 
>-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>

LARGE systems is based in Mission Veijo, while medium systems (B2000-B4000)
was based in Pasadena.  I'm not sure that anyone at Pasadena knows how to
speak ALGOL, only COBOL spoken there(I'm sure I just got some of my 
now X-friends pissed at me...)

Steve Wilson
National Semiconductor

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