Burroughs Corporation
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Burroughs Corporation was a major American business equipment and computer company, best known as one of the early mainframe manufacturers and a predecessor of Unisys.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business equipment manufacturer
→
computer company → public company → |
| areaServed |
worldwide
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| businessModel |
enterprise computing solutions
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| category |
Business machine manufacturers
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Defunct computer companies of the United States → Mainframe computer companies → |
| competitor |
Control Data Corporation
→
Honeywell → IBM → NCR → UNIVAC → |
| country |
United States
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| dissolvedInto |
Unisys
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| focus |
commercial data processing
→
financial industry computing → |
| foundedBy |
William Seward Burroughs I
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| headquartersLocation |
Detroit, Michigan
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Michigan → United States → |
| industry |
business machines
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computer hardware → information technology → |
| knownFor |
banking and financial systems
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early mainframe computers → stack-based computer architecture → support for high-level languages → |
| mergedInto |
Unisys
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| namedAfter |
William Seward Burroughs I
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| notableProductLine |
Burroughs B1900 series
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Burroughs B5000 series → Burroughs B5500 → Burroughs B6500 → Burroughs B6700 → Burroughs B7700 → Burroughs large systems → |
| partOf |
BUNCH
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| predecessorOf |
Unisys
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| product |
adding machines
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banking equipment → calculators → computer peripherals → data processing systems → mainframe computers → minicomputers → |
| stockExchangeListing |
New York Stock Exchange
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| successor |
Unisys
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Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Dijkstra
→
Edsger W. Dijkstra → |
employer |