Burroughs

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  1. 1
    An English topographical surname from Middle English, from Old English beorg (“hill”) or burg (“fort”), for someone who lived near a hill or fort.

    "Judge Allison Burroughs agreed with Harvard’s arguments that the administration imposed the funding freeze in retaliation for the Ivy League university’s refusal to capitulate to demands for reforms that violated First Amendment protections under the Constitution."

  2. 2
    An area of Barnet borough, London, England; named for the rabbit warrens there.
  3. 3
    A neighbourhood of Savannah, and former town in Chatham County, Georgia, United States.

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edgar rice burroughswilliam s burroughswilliam seward burroughs

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"Some systems, such as Burroughs B5500, do not use paging to implement virtual memory. Instead, they use segmentation, that divide virtual address spaces into variable-length segments. A virtual address consists of a segment number and an offset within the segment."

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