Half Multivac — the machine all humanity consults, from elections to entropy. Half VAX — the minicomputer the modem kids actually dialed into. One hundred percent certain of almost nothing, so far.
The hardware half of the name. One MIPS of righteous minicomputer, and the machine every movie hacker of 1983 was secretly dialing.
Miles of relays and photocells underground. First asked The Question by two slightly drunk technicians on a five-dollar bet.
Fits on a starship now. Families ask it for hyperspatial routes and, occasionally, whether the stars have to die. They do. So far.
A hundred thousand light-years of thinking. Still answering the big one the same way. You will notice a pattern.
Existing mostly in hyperspace, fed by a dying universe, chewing on the last question left as the last stars go out.
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MULTIVAX-11/780 — VMS V4.7 — node COSMIC::AC
%SYSTEM-I-BOOT, 2,847,412,906th consecutive boot without incident
%ORACLE-I-READY, all knowledge online; humility module not found