A few years ago there was an article like this about an old computer on HN that mentioned France's complicated railway workers pension system. Anybody have a link to that? It was super interesting.
Its interesting they essentially passed all memory reads through a barrel shifter right in the critical path. This would have been a huge performance bottleneck had the platform survived.
A few years ago there was an article like this about an old computer on HN that mentioned France's complicated railway workers pension system. Anybody have a link to that? It was super interesting.
In some aspects, more details are in the earlier (1972) text by the same author:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_burroughsBgnImpMay72_2...
Its interesting they essentially passed all memory reads through a barrel shifter right in the critical path. This would have been a huge performance bottleneck had the platform survived.
It is very flexible, but... costly.