> This program was written at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the MANIAC I computer
I see the names of computers have gone significantly downhill since the 60s.
I see the names of computers have gone significantly downhill since the 60s.
Looks like even MANIAC was deliberately restrained to make it sound less maniac than the names of computers that came before it. Can't beat Manchester Baby, Colossus, The WITCH, SWAC and MADDIDA.
Being Los Alamos, they really should have named it ATOMIAC or something.
I'm at least glad my university lab named their main GPU server The Crushinator.