computron

/kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing powercombining instruction speed and storage capacity, dimensionedroughly in instructions-per-second timesmegabytes-of-main-store times megabytes-of-mass-storage."That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enoughcomputrons!" This usage is usually found in metaphors thattreat computing power as a fungible commodity good, like acrop yield or diesel horsepower. See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, crank.

2. A mythical subatomic particle that bears the unit quantityof computation or information, in much the same way that anelectron bears one unit of electric charge (see also bogon).An elaborate pseudo-scientific theory of computrons has beendeveloped based on the physical fact that the molecules in asolid object move more rapidly as it is heated. It is arguedthat an object melts because the molecules have lost theirinformation about where they are supposed to be (that is, theyhave emitted computrons). This explains why computers get sohot and require air conditioning; they use up computrons.Conversely, it should be possible to cool down an object byplacing it in the path of a computron beam. It is believedthat this may also explain why machines that work at thefactory fail in the computer room: the computrons there havebeen all used up by the other hardware. (This theory probablyowes something to the "Warlock" stories by Larry Niven, thebest known being "What Good is a Glass Dagger?", in whichmagic is fuelled by an exhaustible natural resource called"mana".)

单词	computron
释义	computron computron /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing powercombining instruction speed and storage capacity, dimensionedroughly in instructions-per-second timesmegabytes-of-main-store times megabytes-of-mass-storage."That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enoughcomputrons!" This usage is usually found in metaphors thattreat computing power as a fungible commodity good, like acrop yield or diesel horsepower. See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, crank. 2. A mythical subatomic particle that bears the unit quantityof computation or information, in much the same way that anelectron bears one unit of electric charge (see also bogon).An elaborate pseudo-scientific theory of computrons has beendeveloped based on the physical fact that the molecules in asolid object move more rapidly as it is heated. It is arguedthat an object melts because the molecules have lost theirinformation about where they are supposed to be (that is, theyhave emitted computrons). This explains why computers get sohot and require air conditioning; they use up computrons.Conversely, it should be possible to cool down an object byplacing it in the path of a computron beam. It is believedthat this may also explain why machines that work at thefactory fail in the computer room: the computrons there havebeen all used up by the other hardware. (This theory probablyowes something to the "Warlock" stories by Larry Niven, thebest known being "What Good is a Glass Dagger?", in whichmagic is fuelled by an exhaustible natural resource called"mana".)
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