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ClearPath OS 2200 Express
Apparently Unisys started to offer ClearPath OS 2200 Express around 2016, an system that would also allow to emulate the Univac 1100/2200 family:
London, UK March 30, 2016 – Unisys Corporation today ...
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Is there surviving software for the UNIVAC I/II?
I have seen some working software on-line for the IBM 704 (e.g. FORTRAN), and even for the EDSAC, ENIAC (in some form) and Manchester Baby. However, I have been unable to find any software for the ...
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Why did the UNIVAC 1100-series Exec-8 O/S call the @ character "master space?"
It was used as a sentinel character in card images. It distinguished job control commands from data.
But why the strange name?
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Why didn't Remington Rand integrate their own teleprinter in their UNIVAC?
Remington was a successful typewriter producer whose shift-key products had been the role model of typewriter. Remington Rand was an early manufacturer of Computers and created the famous UNIVAC ...
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Did any 16-bit or 36-bit computer instruction set ever include 4x4 or 6x6 bit-matrix operations?
Donald Knuth's 64-bit MMIX architecture includes several novel instructions that operate matrixwise on an 8x8 square matrix (MOR, MXOR).
(MMIX also has instructions like BDIF that operate vectorwise ...
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