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From: ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast)
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Subject: Re: Univac
Message-ID: <450@ho95b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 16:05:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 16:05:50 1985
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>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