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50年代中叶的计算机都是庞然大物,与人疏远,被放置在一尘不染的、有空调的房间里,普通人是无法问津的。它们不可移动,不好使用,每台售价至少100万美元。1957年,一家新的公司——数字设备公司(Digital Equipment Corporation,DEC)成立了,该公司的目标是制造和销售体积较小、价格较低廉的计算机。几年之后,一位年轻的工程师与这家公司签约,他设计的计算机对计算机工业产生了不可估量的影响,此人便是戈登·贝尔(Gordon Bdl)。他为DEC公司研制的一批小型计算机,开拓了小型计算机技术的新时代。 贝尔构思、设计并主持制造的PDP-4、PDP-5、PDP-6、PDP-8、PDP-10和PDP-11机使整个计算机工业发生了翻天覆地的变化。这些机器性能良好,功能甚佳,售价仅为几万或几十万元美元。当时,他获得的小型化,不是靠部件大
The computers of the mid-1950s were monstrous, estranged from people, and placed in immaculate, air-conditioned rooms where ordinary people could not care. They are not mobile, not good to use, each priced at least 1,000,000 US dollars. In 1957, a new company, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), was formed, with the goal of making and selling smaller and cheaper computers. A few years later, a young engineer contracted with the company, designing a computer that had an immeasurable impact on the computer industry, Gordon Bdl. He developed a small batch of computers for the DEC company, opened up a new era of small computer technology. Bell conceived, designed and hosted PDP-4, PDP-5, PDP-6, PDP-8, PDP-10 and PDP-11 machines that have revolutionized the entire computer industry. These machines perform well, function very well, the price is only tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. At that time, he obtained the miniaturization, not by the large parts