雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(129)

He wrote off to F.C. Williams for information, and received a reply probably on 8 July.

圖靈爲此寫信給威廉姆斯，大概是在1948年7月8日，他收到了回覆。

By this time, the fact was that they had already, on 21 June 1948, successfully run the first program on the first working stored program electronic digital computer in the world.

那邊已經於6月21日，在世界上第一臺存儲程序式電子數字計算機上，成功地運行了第一個程序。

It used, for storage, the cathode ray tube that Williams had developed, and at this point the total store consisted of just 1024 binary digits stored on one tube.

這臺計算機的記憶裝置，採用了威廉姆斯開發的陰極射線管，全部的1024個二進制位，都存儲在一個管上。

Alan drew attention to this figure in a table of 'memory capacities' in this report:

圖靈注意到這份報告中關於"記憶容量"的一個列表：

Brunsviga 90

手搖計算器90

ENIAC without cards and with fixed programme 600

ENIAC（不算卡片和內置程序）600

ENIAC with cards ∞

ENIAC（包括卡片）無限注

ACE as proposed 60,000

計劃中的ACE 60000

Manchester machine as actually working (8/7/48) 1,100

已實現的曼徹斯特機（1948年7月8日）1100

It was a pointed contrast between one machine still merely 'proposed', and another that actually worked.

由此可見，這臺機器與那個"計劃中"的機器存在着很懸殊的差距，

But the figures also pointed to the fact that F.C. Williams had pursued his project in a more modest way.

但這也說明威廉姆斯是以一種更務實的方式，來進行他的項目。

The Manchester computer was small, and might even be called small-minded.

曼徹斯特機器雖然很小，

But it was the first embodiment of a Universal Turing Machine, albeit with a very short 'tape'.

但卻是現實世界中的第一臺圖靈機。

Alan wrote out a little routine to perform long division, and posted it north immediately.

圖靈馬上寫了一段計算除法的小程序，並寄了過去。