雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(15)

This was part of an uneasy treaty of alliance, according to which the zones of 'engineers' and 'mathematicians' were agreed.

這不是一個簡單的合作，是“工程師”和“數學家”之間的妥協。

Newman took little further interest in the machine, and Alan took on the role of 'the mathematician'.

紐曼對這臺機器已經不怎麼感興趣了，圖靈接替了“數學家”的角色。

It was for him to specify the range of operations that should be performed by the machine, although his list was in fact cut back by the engineers.

現在可以由他來指定，用什麼操作來展示這臺機器，儘管他提出的列表，已經被工程師們刪減了不少。

He had no part in the internal logical design, which was done by Geoff Tootill, but had control over the input and output mechanism, which lay more in the province of the user.

圖靈在內部邏輯設計方面沒有任何話語權，這些都由托蒂爾負責，他負責的是輸入和輸出機制，這與機器的使用者更直接相關。

At the NPL, he had chosen punched cards for input since they already had a punched card section.

在國家物理實驗室，因爲他們有一個打孔卡片部門，所以圖靈就選擇用打孔卡片進行輸入。

here he preferred to generate a teleprinter tape which could later be run off on a printer.

而在這裏，他則更喜歡產生一條電傳紙帶，這樣就可以把它放進電傳打字機。

He was, of course, very familiar with the teleprinter system from Bletchley and Hanslope.

圖靈自然對電傳打字機非常熟悉，因爲布萊切利和漢斯洛普都有這套東西。

After it had been attached, those 32 different combinations of 0s and Is in five-row teleprinter tape became the language of the Manchester machine, haunting the days and dreams alike of its users.

五條電傳紙帶，上面有32種不同的0和1的組合，從此這些紙帶就成了曼徹斯特機器的語言，日日夜夜地糾纏着它的使用者。

It was Alan's job to make the Manchester machine convenient to use, but his ideas of convenience were not always shared by others.

圖靈的工作，是使曼徹斯特機用起來更方便，但是他眼中的“方便”，有時候會讓別人覺得非常不方便。

He had, of course, attacked the principle on which Wilkes was working according to which the hardware of the machine would be designed to make the instructions easy for a human user to follow - so that in the EDSAC design, the letter 'A' was used as the symbol for the instruction to add.

他研究過威爾克斯的設計思想，即通過機器的硬件設計，使其指令形式儘可能地符合人類的習慣，比如說在EDSAC上，字母“A”就表示相加（“Add”的開頭字母）。

In contrast, Alan held that human convenience should be catered for by programming techniques, not by electronics.

但圖靈的想法與此不同，他認爲這種方便性應該通過編程來實現，而不是通過硬件。

In his 1947 talk, he had referred to such matters of convenience as 'fussy little details'.

在他1947年的談話中，他說這些都是“雜七雜八的小細節”。