Computers can solve enormously complex problems in fractions of seconds, but sometimes it takes six months to feed in the information and instructions they need to do it. To pay a staff of highly trained technicians to lay out a program for the machine to follow can increase the purchase price of one of the big brains by 40%. Last week a big step was taken toward eliminating this expense: Burroughs Corp. brought out a new B5000 model that goes a long way toward programing its own work.
The B5000 can take problems either worked out in algebraic terms...
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