程序员同样哭诉：“望有贤者，从高管和险恶的协议中拯救我们，
并赐予自主系统，我们必当致力于斯！”图灵和冯诺依曼的圣灵被这些哭喊触动，不约
而同地说道：“我们下界去创造突破，平息世人的怨诉。”
And that day the spirits of Turing and von Neumann spake unto Moore of Intel,
granting him insight and wisdom to understand the future. And Moore was with chip, and
he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the Chip, saying, "Thou
art a Breakthrough; with my own Corporation have I fabricated thee. Though thou art yet
as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain, and
conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: every eighteen months shall thou
double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moore's Law, which endures unto this
day.
一日，Intel的摩尔被图灵和冯诺依曼的圣灵赐予洞见未来的贤能。随即创造了
4004 芯片。摩尔祝福道：“汝当与赐尔生命之公司同道，实现突破。此刻你细如微尘，
他日终将累土成山，倾覆过往。每十八个月你的能力将会翻倍，这就是我对你的祝福。”
这也是延续至今的摩尔定律。
And the birth of 4004 was the beginning of the Third Age, the age of Microchips. And
as the Mainframes and their Systems and Corporations had flourished, so did the
Microchips and their Systems and Corporations. And their lineage was on this wise:
4004 的诞生，标志着第三个时代——微芯片时代的到来。它的系统和公司会创造
如同大型机的繁荣。其家世：
Moore begat Intel. Intel begat Mostech, Zilog and Atari. Mostech begat 6502, and
Zilog begat Z80. Intel also begat 8800, who begat Altair; and 8086, mother of all PCs.
6502 begat Commodore, who begat PET and 64; and Apple, who begat 2. (Apple is the
great Mystery, the Fruit that was devoured, yet bloomed again.) Atari begat 800 and 1200,
masters of the game, who were destroyed by Sega and Nintendo. Xerox begat PARC.
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Commodore and PARC begat Amiga, creator of fine arts; Apple and PARC begat Lisa, who
begat Macintosh, who begat iMac. Atari and PARC begat ST, the music maker, who died
and was no more. Z80 begat Sinclair the dwarf, TRS-80 and CP/M, who begat many
machines, but soon passed from this world. Altair, Apple and Commodore together begat
Microsoft, the Great Darkness which is called Abomination, Destroyer of the Earth, the
Gates of Hell.
Moore 创造了 Intel.。Intel 创造了 Mostech, Zilog 和 Atari。 Mostech 创造了
6502， 而 Zilog 创造了 Z80。 Intel 同样创造了 8800——Altair 之父； 以及 8086——所
有PC之母。 6502创造了Commodore——PET和64之父； 以及Apple——（Apple）2
之父.（Apple是个真理，另一方面它也是一个贪婪的水果） Atari创造了 800和1200
——最终被 Sega 和 Nintendo 击垮的游戏的先师。 Xerox 创造了 PARC.。Commodore
和PARC创造了Amiga——美术的创造者； Apple和PARC创造了Lisa——Macintosh和
iMac 之父. Atari 和 PARC 创造了已然逝去的音乐制造者 ST；Z80 创造了小巧的 Sinclair
，TRS-80和CP/M，他们继而创造了很多机器。但是很快这个时代就结束了。
Altair，Apple 和 Commodore 共同创造了 Microsoft 这个可憎的无尽黑暗，灭世者，地狱
之门。
译注：1.begat，除了创造还有……之父的意思，这里并非真的创造，而是强调传承脉络。
2. Abomination，《圣经》可憎之物的通称，包括仓鼠、猪等等。
3. Gates，门，同样是比尔盖茨的姓氏。
Now it came to pass in the Age of Microchips that IBM, the greatest of the Mainframe
Corporations, looked upon the young Microchip Systems and was greatly vexed. And in
their vexation and wrath they smote the earth and created the IBM PC. The PC was
without sound and colour, crufty and bogacious in great measure, and its likeness was a
tramp, yet the Customers were greatly moved and did purchase the PC in great numbers.
And IBM sought about for an Operating System Provider, for in their haste they had not
created one, nor had they forged a suitably grave and perilous License, saying, "First we
will build the market, then we will create a new System, one in our own image, and bound
by our Licence." But they reasoned thus out of pride and not wisdom, not for seeing the
wrath which was to come.
大型机和IBM的时代结束了，这些公司对年青微系统怒目而视。