Minsk family of computers

Minsk family of computers

Minsk family of mainframe computers was developed and produced in the Byelorussian SSR from 1959 to 1975. Its further progress was stopped by a political decision of switching to IBM System/360 clone family known as ES EVM during the brief period of détente.

The most advanced model was Minsk-32, developed in 1968. It supported COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGAMS (a version of ALGOL). This and earlier versions also used a machine-oriented language called AKI (AvtoKod "Inzhener", i.e., "Engineer's Autocode"). It stood somewhere between the native assembly language SSK (Sistema Simvolicheskogo Kodirovaniya, or "System of symbolic coding") and higher-level languages, like FORTRAN.

M-20, M-220 and M222 were a a range of general purpose computers designed and manufactured in the USSR. These computers were developed by the Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Machines (NIIEM) and built at Moscow Plant of Calculating and Analyzing Machines (SAM) and the Kazan Plant of Computing Machines (under the Ministry of Radio Industry of the USSR).

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Operating systems

Provided batch-processing and simultaneous execution, subsequently enhance to provide a multitasking mode.

  • OS4-220 - for the М-220
  • DM-222 - for the М-222

Programming languages available

  • FORTRAN - an optimized ALPHA translator - by A.P. Ershov
  • ALGOL 60 - compiler
  • ALGOL 68 - compiler, written in ALGOL 60 / EPSILON

See also

  • http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/m220.htm
  • The Association of M-20 Users - a M-20 software distributor
  • L.N. Korolyov. The computer structures and their software base. Moscow, Nauka, 1974.
  • Electronic digital computation machines for general purposes. Vol. 4. NII EIR Publication, 1972.
  • Mark Nemenman

External links

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