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The Pirates Abandon Ship
海盜棄船
Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to do next,
1985年8月，喬布斯從歐洲回來，正在琢磨接下來要做些什么。
Jobs called the Stanford biochemist Paul Berg to discuss the advances that were being made in gene splicing and recombinant DNA.
他打電話給斯坦福大學生物學家保羅·伯格，閑談基因拼接和重組領(lǐng)域取得的進展。
Berg described how difficult it was to do experiments in a biology lab,
伯格向喬布斯解釋了在生物實驗室做實驗的困難程度，
where it could take weeks to nurture an experiment and get a result.
做一個實驗并獲得結(jié)果可能需要數(shù)周時間。
"Why don't you simulate them on a computer?" Jobs asked.
“為什么不在計算機上進行模擬實驗?zāi)兀俊眴滩妓箚柕馈?/div>
Berg replied that computers with such capacities were too expensive for university labs.
伯格解釋說，對于大學實驗室來說，具備這種能力的計算機太貴了。
"Suddenly, he was excited about the possibilities," Berg recalled.
“突然間，喬布斯就為這種現(xiàn)狀所蘊含的可能性興奮起來，”伯格回憶說，
"He had it in his mind to start a new company.
“他想到要創(chuàng)辦一家新企業(yè)。
He was young and rich, and had to find something to do with the rest of his life."
他年輕、富有，要為自己今后的生活找點兒事做。”
Jobs had already been canvassing academics to ask what their workstation needs were.
喬布斯一直以來都在拜訪學者，詢問他們對計算機工作站的潛在需求。
It was something he had been interested in since 1983,
自1983年以來，他就開始對此產(chǎn)生興趣。
when he had visited the computer science department at Brown to show off the Macintosh,
當時，他造訪布朗大學計算機科學系，向他們展示麥金塔電腦，
only to be told that it would take a far more powerful machine to do anything useful in a university lab.
卻被告知，在大學實驗室里要比這強大得多的機器才能做出些有用的東西。
The dream of academic researchers was to have a workstation that was both powerful and personal.
學術(shù)研究人員的夢想是擁有一臺強大的個人工作站。
As head of the Macintosh division, Jobs had launched a project to build such a machine, which was dubbed the Big Mac.
作為麥金塔部門的負責人，為了生產(chǎn)這種計算機，喬布斯推出了一個新項目。該項目被戲稱為“大Mac”
It would have a UNIX operating system but with the friendly Macintosh interface.
它將采用Unix操作系統(tǒng)和友好的麥金塔界面。
But after Jobs was ousted from the Macintosh division, his replacement, Jean-Louis Gassee, canceled the Big Mac.
但是1985年夏天喬布斯被逐出麥金塔部門后，他的繼任者讓-路易·加西便取消了這一項目。
