The Ferranti Sirius Computer
Sirius followed Pegasus and was intended to be Ferranti's `commercial' as
opposed to `scientific' computer. Its basic structure was BCD (bibary coded decimal)
rather than binary.
Pegasus used valves (vauum tubes) but Sirius used transistors and so was smaller
and had a lower power consumption. Neither computer used core memory but
used magnetostrictive delay lines.
Autocode
The high(ish) level language on Sirius was the Autocode, the same as that used on
Pegasus, itself essentially Tony Brooker's manchester auocode, see
details here.
Emulator and Compiler
I did some work on an Autocode compiler with Fortran as the target language.
For anyone interested the code is here.
To run the compiled program you will need the perm.
More interestingly I have a JavaScript autocode interpreter
whichich you can run from here.
This will work in Mozilla but not in Internet Explorer (which is unsafe for scripts
anyway.)
Programs
Documentation