Richard (and Donna) write:
> > anybody want to wax poetic about 'candy' (was that how you spelled
> > it?)?  i remember (in college) when candy got fired up and the system
> > came to a screeching halt 8-]                 - d
>
> It was CANDE.  I might still have a manual from the '70s, unless it
> didn't make the move up here (haven't unpacked yet).  I learned
> programming by using Algol on a Burroughts 7800 (and earlier/smaller
> models) in jobs during college at UOP and UCD in California.  Probably
> one reason I found the 3000 easy to learn, although I do recall missing
> CANDE when I was first learning MPE (why not build text editing function
> into the CI?).

CANDE = Command AND Edit

CANDE was the combination CI and EDITOR on Burroughs MCP.  The original
CANDE was developed by Remote Computing Corporation on a Burroughs
B5500 (or B5000?), and then taken over by Burroughs.  Steve Cooper was
working with Darryl (sp?) High at Burroughs, when a major CANDE overhaul
was done in the early 1970s.

BTW, Richard, if you ever played STARTREK on the Burroughs machine,
it was most likely the version I co-authored!  The input scanning
techniques (and programming techniques in general) that I learned
during that project are still in use today.

For people with some spare $$ and a yen for an A-Series (the "new"
name for the stack-based MCP machines), check out the PC-hardware based
A-Series at:
http://www.marketplace.unisys.com/clearpath/techlibrary/documents/2160spec.html

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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