雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(78)
But even when von Neumann joined the ENIAC team as 'adviser' in late 1944, Eckert and Mauchly had perceived a quite different solution to their problem.
This was to leave the hardware alone, and to make the instructions available at electronic speeds by storing them internally, in electronic form.
他們拋開硬件，用電子的形式，將指令存儲在機器內部，從而使它們可以被以電子的速度取用。The ENIAC was designed to store its arithmetical working internally, and the point of the original Colossus had been that it would hold Fish key-patterns internally.
ENIAC將計算的過程進行內部存儲，而原始巨人機也對魚機的密鑰序列進行內部存儲。
It was a quite different matter to consider holding the instructions to the machine internally.
將指令存儲在機器內部，這是一個很新穎的想法，人們一般會自然地想到，Instructions were naturally thought of as coming from the outside, to act upon an inside.
指令要從外部進入機器，然後在內部執行。But the 'second electronic machine' mentioned in von Neumann's letter to Weaver was intended to incorporate this new idea.
但是在馮·諾伊曼寫給韋弗的信中提到的"另一個電子機器項目"中，卻真的引入了這個新想法。Every tradition of common sense and clear thinking would tend to suggest that 'numbers' were entirely different in kind from 'instructions'.
不管是直覺常識，還是仔細的思考，人們都會認爲，數據和指令，完全是兩回事。The obvious thing was to keep them apart: the data in one place, and the stock of instructions to operate on the data, in another place.
很明顯，必須要把它們分開，數據放在一個地方，操作數據的指令則放在另一個地方。It was obvious—but wrong.
這確實很自然，但卻是錯誤的。In March and April 1945, the ENIAC team had prepared a proposal, the Draft Report on the EDVAC.
1945年3月和4月間，ENIAC研究組提出了一份《關於EDVAC的報告草案》，The EDVAC—the Electronic Discrete Variable Calculator—was the planned 'second electronic machine'.
EDVAC是離散變量自動電子計算機的縮寫，這就是所謂的"另一個電子機器項目"。
