For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computerage, was going to be the next casualty.
有一段时间，由美国创造的、处于新计算机时代核心的半导体制造业似乎将成为下一个受害者。
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Sixty years into the computerage, we still aren't checking basic things like the success of opening a file or whether memory allocation succeeds.
计算机的诞生已进入了六十个年头，我们仍旧没有检查基本的东西，如成功打开一个文件及内存分配是否成功。
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Many people thought that pencils would become obsolete in the computerage, yet sales continue to grow.