Re:ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]
by patkai on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:00PM
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I just read von Neumann's biography recently. He wanted to call the ENIAC the MANIAC - because of its unreliability - but his colleagues refused.
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Re:ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]
by segfaultbuserr on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:22AM
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The name "MANIAC" (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer or Mathematical Analyzer, Numerator, Integrator, and Computer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I) was eventually picked up by physicist Nicholas Metropolis to name a computer designed under his leadership, as an attempt to ridicule and stop the rash of silly acronyms for machine names, such as ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC, etc.