Unlike the Difference Engine, Step Reckoner and all other computational devices before it - the Analytical Engine was a " general purpose computer" .

不像差分机，以及莱布尼茨乘法器和所有其他以前的计算设备-分析机是一台" 通用计算机" 。

Early in this series we covered computing history from roughly the dawn of civilization, up to the birth of electronic general purpose computers in the mid-1940s.

在本系列的早期，我们介绍了从文明诞生到 20 世纪 40 年代中期电子通用计算机诞生的计算历史。