计算机专业英语(第二版)Chapter1.ppt

21世纪高职高专新概念教材 计算机专业英语（第二版） 孙建忠 主　编 白凤仙 程 立 副主编 中国水利水电出版社 ISBN 7-5084-4148-6 Computer English Chapter 1 The History and Future of Computers 1.2.5 Generationless Computers We may have defined our last generation of computers and begun the era of generationless computers. Even though computer manufacturers talk of “fifth” and “sixth”-generation computers, this talk is more a marketing play than a reflection of reality. 我们可能已经定义了我们最新一代计算机而且开始了计算机的无代时代。即使计算机制造商谈到“第五”和“第六”代计算机,这些说法更多是市场行为，而不是真实的反映。 Advocates of the concept of generationless computers say that even though technological innovations are coming in rapid succession, no single innovation is, or will be, significant enough to characterize another generation of computers. 无代计算机的观念提倡者说，即使科技革新接二连三地迅速出现,没有一种革新是,或将是足够重要，作为另一代计算机的特征。 1.2 Computer Generations * * Key points:  useful terms and definitions of computersDifficult points:  describing the features of computers of each generation 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 New Words Expressions: computerlike a. 计算机似的 electromechanical a. 机电的, 电机的 vacuum 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 1.1 The Invention of the Computer 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 UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) 通用自动计算机 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