雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(79)
The report was dated 30 June 1945, and signed by von Neumann.
It was not his design, but the description of it bore the mark of his more mathematical mind rising above the technicalities.
實際上這並不是他的設計，但描述的方式卻明顯帶有他高於技術之上的數學化特徵。In particular, it articulated the very cautious, circumspect, but quite new idea, at which the ENIAC team had arrived in planning a better machine.
特別是，這份報告集中了很多嚴謹但卻新穎的想法，基於這些想法，ENIAC隊伍正在計劃製造更好的機器。
It discussed the different kinds of storage that existing machines required: intermediate results, instructions, fixed constant parameters, statistical data, and then stated that
他們討論了目前機器的不同的存儲類型，包括中間結果、指令、固定的常數、統計數據。然後他們指出：The device requires a considerable memory. While it appeared, that various parts of this memory have to perform functions which differ somewhat in their nature and considerably in their purpose, it is nevertheless tempting to treat the entire memory as one organ.
該設備需要一個大容量的存儲體，其不同的部分，根據性質和用途的不同，要執行不同的功能。然而，將整個存儲體視爲一個整體，是非常令人興奮的。But such a proposal, that of the 'one organ', was equivalent to adopting the 'one tape' of the Universal Turing Machine, on which everything—instructions, data, and working—was to be stored.
這個關於"一個整體"的想法，與通用圖靈機使用的"一條紙帶"是等價的。通用圖靈機的指令、數據和運行需要的存儲空間，都在一條紙帶上。This was the new idea, different from anything in Babbage's design, and one which marked a turning point in proposals for digital machines.
這個新想法，與巴貝奇的設計完全不同，這是數字機器發展過程中的一個重要的轉折點。For it threw all the emphasis on to a new place—the construction of a large, fast, effective, all-purpose electronic 'memory'.
因爲它把一切都集中到了一個新的問題上：構造一個大容量、高速、有效、共用的存儲體。And in its way it made everything much more simple, less cluttered in conception.
這將使一切在概念上都變得簡單而清晰。Von Neumann might well have seen it as 'tempting', because it was almost too good an idea to be true.
馮·諾伊曼覺得這個想法很"令人興奮"，它太好了以至於不像是真的。But it had been in Computable Numbers all the time.
但實際上，《可計算數》中早就提出了這個想法。
