This is Appa, my flying bison.

这是阿帕，会飞的野牛阿帕。

Appa, 46, is one of the most respected climbers in the mountaineering community.

今年46岁，是登山界中最受尊敬的登山者之一。

Now, assume that an application named AppA issues the following statement, but does not perform a commit.

现在，假设名为AppA的应用程序发出以下语句，但是没有执行提交。

Prior to DB2 9.7, the statement issued by AppB would hang because it would wait for the exclusive lock held by the update statement of AppA (the writer) to be released.

在DB 2 9.7之前，AppB发出的语句会被挂起，因为它要等待释放AppA (writer)的update语句持有的排他锁。

Jamil Appa of BAE, who is involved in the project, says one aim is to see how easily the internal architecture of video-games consoles can handle the complex algorithms used in simulations.

BAE系统公司参与该工程的Jamil Appa说，有一个目标是要搞清楚这些视频游戏机的内部架构为何能如此轻易地处理仿真中用到的复杂算法。