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ORACLE (computer)
The ORACLE, or Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine, was an early stored-program electronic digital computer built jointly by Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1950s. Based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, it was fabricated at Argonne under subcontract for use at Oak Ridge, where it was installed and operated until the early 1960s. Its name was chosen as an allusion to the oracles of Greek mythology.
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The ORACLE, or Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine, was an early stored-program electronic digital computer built jointly by Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1950s. Based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, it was fabricated at Argonne under subcontract for use at Oak Ridge, where it was installed and operated until the early 1960s. Its name was chosen as an allusion to the oracles of Greek mythology.
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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