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The B5000 was a mainframe computer introduced by the Burroughs Corporation in 1961. It was notable for being:
Besides the end-user applications, the operating system itself (called MCP, short for Master Control Program), was programmed in Elliot ALGOL—almost a decade before the creation of Unix.
Furthermore, the command interface (à la job control language) was eventually developed into a compiled, structured, procedural programming language called WFL (short for Work Flow Language).
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