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- Multivac abstract "Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer in many stories by Isaac Asimov. According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov coined the name in imitation of UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer. Asimov had assumed the name \"Univac\" denoted a computer with a single vacuum tube (it actually is an acronym for \"Universal Automatic Computer\"), and on the basis that a computer with many such tubes would be more powerful, called his fictional computer \"Multivac\". His later short story \"The Last Question\", however, expands the AC suffix to be \"automatic computer\".Like most of the technologies Asimov describes in his fiction, Multivac's exact specifications vary among appearances. In all cases, it is a government-run computer that answers questions, and is usually buried deep underground for security purposes. However, Asimov never settles on a particular size for the computer (except for mentioning it is very large) or the supporting facilities around it. \"Franchise\" states it is half a mile long and three stories high, at least as far as the general public knows, while \"All the Troubles of the World\" states it fills all of Washington D.C.. There are frequent mentions of corridors and people inside Multivac. Unlike the artificial intelligences portrayed in his Robot series, Multivac's interface is mechanized and impersonal, consisting of complex command consoles few humans can operate (with the exception of \"Key Item\").Though the technology depended on bulky vacuum tubes, the concept – that all information could be contained on computer(s) and accessed from a domestic terminal – constitutes an early reference to the possibility of the Internet (see \"Anniversary\" for how it was used). In The Last Question, Multivac is shown as having a life of many thousands of years, growing ever more enormous with each section of the story, which can explain its different reported sizes as occurring further down the internal timeline of the overarching story.".
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- Multivac wikiPageRevisionID "702176409".
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink All_the_Troubles_of_the_World.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Anniversary_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Artificial_intelligence.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fictional_computers.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Category:Isaac_Asimov.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Category:Multivac_short_stories_by_Isaac_Asimov.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Entropy.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Franchise_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Heat_death_of_the_universe.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Hyperspace_(science_fiction).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink In_Memory_Yet_Green.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Internet.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Isaac_Asimov.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink It_Is_Coming_(Asimov).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Jokester.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Key_Item.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink List_of_fictional_computers.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink My_Son,_the_Physicist.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Point_of_View_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Potential_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Question_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Reductio_ad_absurdum.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Robot_series_(Asimov).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Someday_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Supercomputer.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink The_Dead_Past.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink The_Last_Question.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink The_Life_and_Times_of_Multivac.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink The_Machine_That_Won_the_War_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink True_Love_(short_story).
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink UNIVAC_I.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLink Vacuum_tube.
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLinkText "AC".
- Multivac wikiPageWikiLinkText "Multivac".
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- Multivac wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Multivac wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Robot_series.
- Multivac subject Category:Fictional_computers.
- Multivac subject Category:Isaac_Asimov.
- Multivac subject Category:Multivac_short_stories_by_Isaac_Asimov.
- Multivac hypernym Supercomputer.
- Multivac type InformationAppliance.
- Multivac type TelevisionShow.
- Multivac type Writer.
- Multivac type Character.
- Multivac type Computer.
- Multivac type Object.
- Multivac type Writer.
- Multivac comment "Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer in many stories by Isaac Asimov. According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov coined the name in imitation of UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer. Asimov had assumed the name \"Univac\" denoted a computer with a single vacuum tube (it actually is an acronym for \"Universal Automatic Computer\"), and on the basis that a computer with many such tubes would be more powerful, called his fictional computer \"Multivac\".".
- Multivac label "Multivac".
- Multivac sameAs Q1952537.
- Multivac sameAs Multivac.
- Multivac sameAs Multivac.
- Multivac sameAs مولتیواک.
- Multivac sameAs Multivac.
- Multivac sameAs מולטיוואק.
- Multivac sameAs Multivac.
- Multivac sameAs マルチバック.
- Multivac sameAs m.0490z3.
- Multivac sameAs Q1952537.
- Multivac sameAs 马尔蒂瓦克.
- Multivac wasDerivedFrom Multivac?oldid=702176409.
- Multivac isPrimaryTopicOf Multivac.