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Re:Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words by mumblemumble on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:43AM (#23987184)
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordinateur gives a decent account of the etymology.

Given that we're talking about something IBM did in 1955, I can accept putting things in order as being the function that the word focuses on, rather than calculation.

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