Multivac fails, displaying the error message "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER". In possibly the most famous Multivac story, "The Last Question", two slightly drunken technicians ask Multivac if humanity can reverse the increase of entropy. His later short story "The Last Question", however, expands the AC suffix to be "analog 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". According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov coined the name in imitation of UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer. Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer appearing in several science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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