jpa144@cit-vax (05/30/85)
From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke) from Robert Neinast: > However, you are correct in that the AC at the end of Univac DOES > stand for Analog Computer. No. It stands for Automatic Computer. Univacs were digital computers, not analog. --Peter Alfke [jpa144@cit-vax]
ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast) (06/03/85)
>from Robert Neinast: >> However, you are correct in that the AC at the end of Univac DOES >> stand for Analog Computer. > >No. It stands for Automatic Computer. Univacs were digital computers, >not analog. > > --Peter Alfke [jpa144@cit-vax] Of course, you are right. Had a momentary short circuit in my *internal* automatic computer. However, what I said before still holds: The AC in Multivac doesn't stand for anything. Asimov thought Uni-Vac had one vacuum tube; his Multi-Vac had many. -- ". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch." Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95b!ran) AT&T-Bell Labs