Why is it called a "computer" and not an executor?

They were named after computers (people that did computations)

>>60750899
Because it computes, duh.

compute is more specific to what they do
yes, they execute programs, but they execute programs in order to compute results

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why is it called a "'computer" and not the whizzy bitbuster

>>60750946
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>>60750959
HEWBB

Because you need to compute things before executing them.

First comes the data then the process.