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Unisys Alive

Unisys
KindCompany
Founded1986
StatusAlive
FoundersMerger of Burroughs and Sperry
FieldMainframes
Sourcewww.unisys.com ↗

Born of the Burroughs–Sperry merger — still ships ClearPath machines whose architecture lineage runs unbroken to the B5000 and UNIVAC.

Predecessors Burroughs Corporation Sperry Rand

The September 1986 merger of Burroughs and Sperry created what was briefly the second-largest computer company. Unisys inherited two incompatible mainframe lines — Burroughs's B-series and Sperry's 1100 series — and continues both to this day as ClearPath Dorado and Libra.

That a Burroughs B5000 program from 1963 can still conceptually map onto a current ClearPath is one of computing's more remarkable continuity stories.

Sources

  1. unisys.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys