> Post Room Computer
Given that your link spells this "Postroom Computer" and is British, I'm guessing it has to do with mail (as in, the post; as in, what there is none of on Sundays) as opposed to any of the work of Emil Post, who formalized computation similarly to, independently of, but less famously than, Turing.
Re:Little Man Computer
by RichWalton on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:44AM
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Yes, correct :).
In the "Post Room Computer" analogy, the little man works in a post (mail) room.
The mailboxes are memory, in/out trays are IO, etc etc.
I made something similar [1], based on the Post Room Computer [2].
Basically it is a two address (operand) modification of the LMC. It was used to as a teaching tool for undergrad students at my local university.
It's a bit more fully featured - It supports absolute and register based address modes, macros, programs spanning multiple files. The computer is accessible via command line or using the in-built Java Swing UI.
If anyone is bored and wanted to run it, heres a sample program:
[1] https://github.com/Richard-Walton/The-Post-Room-Computer[2] http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/2518/