ENIAC
Proper noun
Meaning
ENIAC
(computing, historical) Initialism of Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, one of the first electronic digital computers.
Anagrams
Examples
Although the ENIAC was similar to the Colossus it was much faster and more flexible.
A $500 laptop today is far more useful than a $5.9M (inflation-adjusted) ENIAC, even though it contributes far less to GDP.
By the simple strategy of never shutting down ENIAC, the failures were dramatically reduced.
Also, the existence of Colossus was kept secret until the 1970s, well after the birth of ENIAC.
He submitted many of these problems to Atanasoff. citation Patent dispute On June 26, 1947, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were the first to file for patent on a digital computing device (ENIAC), much to the surprise of Atanasoff.
Bootstrapping did not apply to ENIAC, whose hardware configuration was ready for solving problems as soon as power was applied.