计算机专业英语-电子教程.ppt

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Difficult points: describing the features of
computers of each generation
计算机专业英语
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
Requirements:
1. The trends of computer hardware and software 2. Basic characteristics of modern computers 3. Major characteristics of the four generations of modern computers
4. 了解科技英语的特点,掌握科技英语翻译要点
计算机专业英语
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
1.1 The Invention of the Computer
New Words & Expressions:
computerlike a. 计算机似的 electromechanical a. 机电的, 电机的
Computer English
Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
Key points: useful terms and definitions
of computers
vacuuBiblioteka Baidu tubes 真空管
Census Bureau 人口普查局
thousands of 成千上万的
known as 通常所说的,以……著称
Abbreviations:
ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) 电子数字积分计算机,ENIAC计算机 EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer) 延迟存储电子自动计算机 BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) 二进制自动计算机
1.1 The Invention of the Computer
One of the first computerlike devices was developed in Germany by Konrad Zuse in 1941. Called the Z3, it was general-purpose, storedprogram machine with many electronic parts, but it had a mechanical memory. Another electromechanical computing machine was developed by Howard Aiken, with financial assistance from IBM, at Harvard University in 1943. It was called the Automatic Sequence Control Calculator Mark I, or simply the Harvard Mark I. Neither of these machines was a true computer, however, because they were not entirely electronic.
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) 通用自动计算机
计算机专业英语
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
1.1 The Invention of the Computer
It is hard to say exactly when the modern computer was invented. Starting in the 1930s and through the 1940s, a number of machines were developed that were like computers. But most of these machines did not have all the characteristics that we associate with computers today. These characteristics are that the machine is electronic, that it has a stored program, and that it is general purpose.
计算机专业英语
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
1.1 The Invention of the Computer
1.1.1 The ENIAC
Perhaps the most influential of the early computerlike devices was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC. It was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. The project began in 1943 and was completed in 1946. The machine was huge; it weighed 30 tons and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
很难确切地说现代计算机是什么时候发明的。从20世纪30年代到40年 代,制造了许多类似计算机的机器。但是这些机器大部分没有今天我们所 说的计算机的所有特征。这些特性是:机器是电子的,具有储存的程序, 而 且是通用的。
计算机专业英语
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Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers
第一个类似计算机的装置之一是1941年由德国的Konrad Zuse研制 的,叫做Z3,它是通用型储存程序机器,具有许多电子部件,但是它的存 储器是机械的。另一台机电式计算机器是由霍华德.艾坎在IBM的资助下 于1943年在哈佛大学研制的。它被称为自动序列控制计算器Mark I,或 简称哈佛Mark I。然而,这些机器都不是真正的计算机,因为它们不是完 全电子化的。
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