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Burroughs large system architectures: Changes from B5000 to B6500
Changing short description from "The division of computer's primary memory into separately relocatable segments or sections" to "Division of computer's primary memory into separately relocatable segments or sections"
 
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{{Short description|The divisionDivision of computer's primary memory into separately relocatable segments or sections}}
{{About|segmented computer memory|segments in object code|Object file}}
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Burroughs introduced segmentation on the [[B5000]], followed by the compatible B5500 and B5700.
 
The later [[B6500]] Replacedreplaced the Program referenceReference tableTable (PRT) with a [[Saguaro stack]], changed control word formats, changed [[Burroughs large systems descriptors|descriptor]] formats and changed the mechanism for referring to a control word or descriptor.
 
====B5000, B5500 and B5700====