Measurement of computer systems: an introduction
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part II
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If the Martians, Venusians, or Plutonians ever bother to observe the antics of their neighbors on the Planet Earth, they must be vastly amused by our attitude toward the digital automatic computer, the DAC for short. While professing to be completely baffled by the frenzied rush on the part of the lemmings to be drowned in the sea, we---earthlings---have perversely chosen to denigrate the unsurpassable human brain by affixing to a pile of wires and tubes that ludicrous title "The Thinking Machine." What a churlish way to thank Mother Nature for our bountiful mental endowment which dwarfs into insignificance those fabulous gifts of magic, lavished upon their favorites by the doting fairy godmothers.