Sujet : 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.miscDate : 08. Mar 2025, 00:13:45
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c186282 <
c186282@nnada.net> writes:
It was vac-tube tech then ... and 'digital' was kinda
limited to Turing's stuff and the incipent UniVac.
Quibble (reading this in a.f.c, naturally), If you're going to CamelCase the
name of that device, you should write UnivAC, as it's name was
Universal Automatic Computer
(understanding "computer" as the name of a human occupation which had been
electronically automated).
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