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> 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 the
by cbd1984 11y ago
> 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Leon_Post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Leon_Post
- RichWalton 11y agoYes, 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.