Re: Names of ancient computing devices [was: Re: The joy of FORTRAN]

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Sujet : Re: Names of ancient computing devices [was: Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
De : news (at) *nospam* alderson.users.panix.com (Rich Alderson)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.misc
Date : 10. Mar 2025, 02:50:29
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:

On 2025-03-08, Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:

  [ snip ]

In one of his essays, Asimov explained that he made the same error to which
I was responding above, that UniVac was a device with *one* *vacuum* *tube*,
so that he called the computer in his story "MultiVac".

No, he called it "Multivac".  CamelCasing had yet to be invented at the time.

Well played.

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Rich Alderson   news@alderson.users.panix.com
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