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Message 829363 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 21:55:59 UTC

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Message 829364 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 21:57:51 UTC

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Message 829365 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 21:59:01 UTC

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Message 829371 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 22:06:09 UTC - in response to Message 829353.  

Is the Burroughs Corporation still in business?

Burroughs and Sperry-Univac merged to become Unisys, and Unisys is still in business. As far as I can tell, you can still buy a computer that is in some ways descended from the B5000.
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Message 829372 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 22:07:46 UTC - in response to Message 829371.  

Is the Burroughs Corporation still in business?

Burroughs and Sperry-Univac merged to become Unisys, and Unisys is still in business. As far as I can tell, you can still buy a computer that is in some ways descended from the B5000.



what type of businesses use Unisys?

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Message 829374 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 22:12:15 UTC - in response to Message 829372.  

Is the Burroughs Corporation still in business?

Burroughs and Sperry-Univac merged to become Unisys, and Unisys is still in business. As far as I can tell, you can still buy a computer that is in some ways descended from the B5000.

what type of businesses use Unisys?

Beats me. I left somewhere around the time the two merged.
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Message 829400 - Posted: 11 Nov 2008, 23:32:22 UTC - in response to Message 829380.  

what type of businesses use Unisys?

Mainframe computing, see the Link here.

the Wiki on Univac wrote:

Since the 1986 marriage of Burroughs and Sperry, Unisys has metamorphosed from a computer manufacturer to a computer services and outsourcing firm, competing in the same marketplace as IBM, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and Computer Sciences Corporation. Unisys continues to design and manufacture enterprise class computers with the ClearPath and ES7000 server lines.

What I don't quite get is that their "mainframes" are running common, modern server OSes on Intel CPUs. Makes it kind of hard to see how they're anything but big PCs -- at least for someone who was around when "mainframe" meant something.
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Message 829662 - Posted: 12 Nov 2008, 23:53:44 UTC

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Message 829932 - Posted: 13 Nov 2008, 21:16:08 UTC

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Message 829938 - Posted: 13 Nov 2008, 21:27:21 UTC
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