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QWERKS OF HISTORY

机译:历史的QWRKS

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Let me take you back to 1969, the year of Woodstock and of Neil Armstrong's giant J leap for mankind. Nixon was in the White House that year, Elvis was playing Vegas, and the Beatles were recording Abbey Road. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were high school kids. Such a long time ago it was―half a lifetime. In the world of computer technology, 1969 is halfway back to the dawn of time. And yet, when you look closely at the latest computer hardware and software, if s not hard to find vestiges of 1969. Your shiny new Pentium processor can trace its heritage back to a chip whose design was begun that very year. The Unix operating system, whose offshoots are blooming luxuriantly these days, also has its roots in that flower-power summer. And the first four nodes of the ARPANET, progenitor of today's Internet, began exchanging packets in the last months of 1969. The window-and-menu interface we know so well was still a few years in the future; but, on the other hand, the computer mouse was already a few years old. One reaction to the longevity of so much early computer technology is admiration for the pioneers of the field. They must have been clear-thinking and far-seeing innovators to get so much right on the first try. And if s true: Giants strode the earth in those days. Hats off to all of them! But in celebrating the accomplishments of that golden age, I can't quite escape the obvious nagging question: What has everybody been doing for the past 35 years? Can it be true that technologies conceived in the era of time-sharing, teletypes and nine-track tape are the very best that computer science has to offer in the 21st century?
机译:让我带您回到1969年,伍德斯托克(Woodstock)和尼尔·阿姆斯特朗(Neil Armstrong)的巨人J飞跃人类的那一年。那年尼克松在白宫,猫王在玩维加斯,甲壳虫乐队在录制修道院路。比尔·盖茨和史蒂夫·乔布斯都是高中生。这么久以前,这是一辈子的事。在计算机技术领域,1969年已经回到了一半。然而,当您仔细观察最新的计算机硬件和软件时,很难不发现1969年的痕迹。您闪亮的新型Pentium处理器可以将其传统追溯到当年开始设计的芯片。 Unix操作系统的分支近来盛开得很旺盛,它也植根于那个花花公子的夏天。如今,Internet的始祖ARPANET的前四个节点在1969年的最后几个月开始交换数据包。众所周知,窗口和菜单界面仍在未来几年内。但是另一方面,计算机鼠标已经使用了几年。对如此众多的早期计算机技术的长寿的一种反应是对该领域的先驱者的钦佩。他们一定是思维敏捷,远见卓识的创新者,才能在第一次尝试中取得如此大的成功。如果是真的,那时候巨人就大踏步走了。向所有人致敬!但是,在庆祝那个黄金时代的成就时,我无法逃脱一个显而易见的烦人的问题:在过去的35年中,每个人都在做什么?分时,电传打字和九轨录音带时代中构想的技术真的是21世纪计算机科学所能提供的最好的技术吗?

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  • 来源
    《American Scientist》 |2004年第1期|p.12-16|共5页
  • 作者

    Brian Hayes;

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    211 Dacian Avenue, Durham, NC 27701;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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