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by cbd1984
4021 days ago
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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 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 |
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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.