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    October 05

    谁发明了第一台电子计算机

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        今天看了《程序员》2007年10月刊,发现一片由袁传宽博士发表的《再谈谁是真正的“电子计算机之父”》。在这篇文章中,作者称现在我们教科书上所写的ENIAC并不是第一台电子计算机,ENIAC是剽窃了由阿坦哪索夫和贝里与1939到1942年之间在衣阿华州立大学说制造的电子计算机ABC。更让我惊奇的是这个案件于1973年10月19日就已经终审判决了,而我们的教科书现在还写的是ENIAC,莫名其妙啊。

        这种事情在计算机行业已经不是一次两次了,想想最早的计算机体系的提出者,大部分人认为是美国的冯·诺伊曼,其实英国的图灵早于他之前就写出了,不过没有发表而已,在图灵看来最早的那个还不完善,于是第一的称号就被夺走了。当然这还不是最重要的,在现在的计算机行业,我们越来越对起始这一东西不敏感了,只要用到就好,例如我听到一堆人跟我说Bloger像Sina的博客,到底谁模仿谁啊,Sina那点功能还叫博客?看看现在的Yahoo!Pipes和微软的PopFly,也许之后又有一群人跟我说微软真是天才,PopFly的点子太好了,殊不知那时抄袭的。所以说有时间还是溯溯源吧,以不至于某一天我们对子孙说“看整个世界都是我一个人造的!”

    (PS:看完文章后感叹了一下图灵的人生,又加上最近看了一些悲剧的东西,一时兴起,不知所云)

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