Reborn Tech Maniac
Chapter 311 Boss Tang's PC Standard
Chapter 311 Boss Tang's PC Standard
Waseda University, located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is a well-known private university. Naturally, its ranking cannot be compared with the seven national universities that Imperial University of Japan changed after World War II.
In fact, the so-called various university rankings are nothing more than quantifiable indicators such as the number of paper citations in academic rankings, the proportion of foreign teachers, etc., and accordingly there is room for manipulation.
Especially for science and engineering disciplines that are responsible for scientific research, as long as sufficient investment is ensured and academic results are achieved quickly and quickly, it will not be difficult to reach the sky.
However, Waseda University has no advantages in science and engineering, nor can it receive huge financial support like public universities. In addition, it is difficult to add soft power factors to the university rankings with specific quantitative figures. Its position is at a disadvantage. Inevitably.
Tang Huan has to consider every move in official affairs, and he can't turn a blind eye to certain factors like ordinary people.
In his opinion, when choosing a university in Japan that interacts with him, ranking is secondary. It mainly depends on school spirit, history, social contribution, etc., and the inclusive Waseda University is almost the only choice. .
In addition to the blooming philosophical training and certification centers, Tang Huan is also jointly researching localization issues such as Japanese input methods and Japanese fonts with Waseda University. After all, it is closer to the cultural category, and Japanese people have the most say. of.
The current president of Waseda University, Shimizu Division, is an engineering scholar. He sincerely welcomes the IT cooperation project provided by Tang Huan and accompanied him throughout the process.
At a ceremony to donate the second-generation Fangyuan computer, Tang Huan was asked that the first-generation Fangyuan computer currently on the market is basically a compatible machine produced by a third-party manufacturer in Japan. Does that mean that the second-generation Fangyuan computer Will this authorization model be adopted in the future?
"You don't have to wait for the future, it's now." Tang Huan, who had already made up his mind, gave the clearest answer so far.
Among the entourage, there was a professional reporter from the Japanese financial industry, who immediately realized that this should be a rather shocking news, so he immediately wrote an article and sent it back to the newspaper office. Produced by manufacturers, Japanese consumers are expected to obtain further benefits.
Tang Huan, who released his plans to the outside world in an orderly manner, wandered around Waseda University without panic, sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Terrace and waiting for feedback from the outside world.
The development of Japanese fonts is a creation that coexists technology and art, and many people devote themselves to it for a sense of accomplishment.
However, compared with the Western alphabet, the Eastern writing system is obviously too complicated, and it is difficult to do it alone. Therefore, many small groups have emerged, and they are eager to make the fonts they design appear in the computer.
After looking at several sets of font schemes, Tang Huan nodded in front of Secretary Shimizu, admiring Waseda University's profound cultural heritage and the extraordinary creativity of the students, and sponsored the research and development activities of these interest groups in his own name, and added I clearly explained that if any set of fonts is commercialized successfully, the copyright income has nothing to do with me.
If every university in Japan can reach Waseda University's affinity for round computers, then Tang Huan is completely confident that NEC's PC-9801 personal computer will lose its natural advantage in terms of local "people and people." Nothing left.
One of the members of the font interest group surprised Tang Huan. The other party turned out to be Haruki Murakami, a famous novelist decades later in the original time and space.
In a conventional sense, Haruki Murakami was not a well-behaved person during his studies. This kind of incongruity seems to have completely changed since he got married in 1971.
Murakami had to take a year off from Waseda University because he got married while he was in college, and it took him seven years to complete his college credits.
After getting married, Haruki Murakami and his wife worked in a record store during the day and in a cafe at night. Three years later, they opened a jazz cafe "Peter Cat" named after Murakami's pet, which sold coffee during the day and turned into a bar at night.
It can be said that during this period, Haruki Murakami was studying and observing all living beings by running a jazz shop, and accumulated rich social experience.
Haruki Murakami wrote his first novel "Listening to the Wind's Song" in 1979, and submitted his work to the literary magazine "Group Portrait" for the first time in the literary competition for new writers. As a result, he won the 1979 Group Portrait Newcomer Award in one fell swoop.
With this good start, the well-known Haruki Murakami sold his long-run jazz shop this year and became a professional writer. He is currently writing his third work.
"Murakami is really versatile." Tang Huan looked at the other party with interest.
"In fact, I have started to use a personal computer for my writing now. It is a Fangyuan computer with a very powerful typesetting function." Haruki Murakami, who is not good at words, replied succinctly.
Hearing this, Tang Huan gave a thumbs up in admiration, because at this stage, users who can actively accept the tool of personal computers are basically a little different. At least typing Japanese on the keyboard requires a period of adaptation. time.
In fact, Haruki Murakami’s main purpose of coming to Waseda University this time was to check out information in the library.
Fortunately, there was no air raid during the Pacific War, so unlike other libraries in Japan, the library of Waseda University is very well preserved, such as "Dust Tribulation" and other precious documents and historical materials that cannot be found elsewhere. It's all here.
Zheru was helping Waseda University to establish a new library computer management system. Tang Huan's next stop was to inspect the stage results there, so he simply took Haruki Murakami along the way and chatted while walking.
In the original time and space, Haruki Murakami has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature since 2009, and has been shortlisted for 6 consecutive years since then, but he has always been in the role of accompanying runner, which has to be said to be an interesting thing.
Many people associate Haruki Murakami with "Norwegian Wood". Based on this alone, it is impossible for Tang Huan to continue to pay attention after the coincidence.
Compared with other Japanese colleagues, Haruki Murakami's style is not very Japanese, but a very American novelist.
Japan is a hierarchical and step-by-step society. Haruki Murakami has a mentality of escaping from this, which even includes politics, war, and huge state machinery.
All in all, Haruki Murakami is a special Japanese, and Tang Huan also confirmed this through simple getting along with him.
You know, Japan's economy is in full swing, its national power is at its peak, and it is time to challenge the American boss to enjoy the dividends and glory from top to bottom, but Haruki Murakami seems a bit different.
When parting, Tang Huan said with a smile: "Murakami, I appreciate your novels very much. If you are willing to accept, I would like to subsidize your study tour in the United States for free, so as to write better works."
Haruki Murakami was stunned by the pie that fell from the sky, and he didn't know how to answer for a long time.
In the original time and space, Haruki Murakami was not only a Japanese novelist, but also an American literary translator. He admired Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler and Raymond Carver very much. An American writer, his writing style in the early years - that is, in the past few years - was also deeply influenced by him.
Therefore, if there is an opportunity to travel to the United States, Haruki Murakami will naturally wish for it.
"I forgot to explain, you can bring your wife to the United States." Tang Huan took a business card from his entourage and put it in the hands of Haruki Murakami, "If you think about it, call the number above."
……
The rumor that Tang Huan deliberately let out at Waseda University was immediately caught by those Japanese companies that have been paying attention to the personal computer industry.
The next morning, Sony's Akio Morita was the first to contact to confirm the matter.
At this time, Tang Huan was ready to leave for the United States.
"That's true. If Sony is interested, then go to the United States to discuss. I think you will also attend COMDEX, and I really don't have much time to stay in Japan." Tang Huan replied sincerely, but it was a bit tantalizing suspected.
There is also a hidden reason for his sloppiness.
NEC's personal computer PC-9801 is still in the prototype stage. There is no need for Tang Huan to rush into the challenge. He feels that he should take a good stance first and see how NEC responds.
If the situation is optimistic, then we can tighten our grip on the authorization of compatible machines, otherwise we can spread the hero post, a cloud-piercing arrow, and all the brothers and sisters will come to see us.
Moreover, this time buffer can also allow the software department, which is responsible for recovering the losses, to further prepare.
More importantly, the move to open the authorization of the second-generation Fangyuan computer compatible machine involves a series of patented technologies, and it will take a lot of time for the US legal department to carefully deliberate.
Compared with the transitional design of the first-generation Fangyuan computer, Tang Huan planned the architecture of the second-generation Fangyuan computer according to the industry standard goals, including the design of the ISA bus, IO ports, north-south bridge chips, memory sticks, expansion slots, etc. All leave room for future upgrades.
All these things added together are the so-called personal computer standards.
In the original time and space, Big Blue launched the IBM-PC, which made the concept of personal computers popular and popular all over the world.
But in fact, IBM is a profit-seeking company in the final analysis. It developed its own personal computer just to make money in this field.
Don't forget that the background of the birth of IBM-PC is that personal computers are recognized as a low-end device; the development cycle of the chess plan is too short, resulting in technology patchwork...
These restrictions are not a big problem when IBM-PC and other peers such as Apple Co. coexist, but when IBM-PC dominates the world and drives out other personal computers with different architectures, almost leaving only Apple Computer, it gradually becomes a problem. A stumbling block that limits the development of the entire personal computer industry.
One of the most obvious examples is that when Intel launched the microprocessor Intel 80286 with memory protection function, the conditions for a multitasking operating system were already available, but IBM and Microsoft, which dominate the entire personal computer industry, have never been able to do so. Make achievements.
This is the original sin of monopoly. Anyway, no matter what you do, you can make a lot of money every day, so why bother with that.
Therefore, the IBM-PC standard has had many flaws since its birth. It can be said that Big Blue led everyone in a wrong direction from the starting line.
However, Tang Huan's standard embodied in the second-generation Fangyuan computer has thrown his competitors out by several blocks.
This superiority gap is reflected in multiple technical levels, perhaps from the perspective of the motherboard BIOS and hard disk MBR that users come into contact with before installing the operating system, it can best explain the problem.
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System is the basic input and output system. It is the first software loaded when a personal computer is started and is used to perform self-tests of various parts of the system.
When this stage, known as Power On Self Test (POST), is complete, the PC will hand over control to the operating system.
The BIOS of IBM-PC is written in assembly language for 16-bit CPU, namely Intel 8086. It works in real mode, and the maximum memory addressing space is 1MB.
Keyboards, graphics cards, floppy disk drives, etc. are recognized by IBM as standard equipment. Their drivers are fixed in the memory space at high addresses, and the remaining memory address space is available for users to use.
The 1MB capacity and inflexible memory address allocation scheme were once considered sufficient by the chess project team, but the actual situation was that they did not really understand the development trend of personal computers.
As the functionality of the device increases, the driver will become larger; and the emergence of a large number of other new types of devices will spawn new drivers, and this space will soon be insufficient.
The resulting disadvantage is that most new equipment or new functions of standard equipment cannot be used in the BIOS.
For example, future USB devices cannot be operated through BIOS for a long time, and even booting from a USB hard disk has become a problem.
The calling function provided by BIOS is only used by DOS, while Windows and Linux ignore BIOS and directly control the hardware from the bottom layer. BIOS is completely reduced to tasteless.
Tang Huan is naturally not so short-sighted in the design of BIOS. His BIOS is not limited to real mode, and the driver uses the dynamic loading method to fundamentally support more hardware devices.
Master Boot Record——MBR is the master boot record. It is a piece of code located in the master boot sector of the hard disk. It registers the relevant information of the hard disk itself, as well as the size and location information of each partition of the hard disk.
The most obvious limitation of IBM-PC here is that only 4 primary partitions are allowed on the same hard disk.
With the increase of hard disk capacity, there will be a lot of troubles.
(End of this chapter)
Waseda University, located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is a well-known private university. Naturally, its ranking cannot be compared with the seven national universities that Imperial University of Japan changed after World War II.
In fact, the so-called various university rankings are nothing more than quantifiable indicators such as the number of paper citations in academic rankings, the proportion of foreign teachers, etc., and accordingly there is room for manipulation.
Especially for science and engineering disciplines that are responsible for scientific research, as long as sufficient investment is ensured and academic results are achieved quickly and quickly, it will not be difficult to reach the sky.
However, Waseda University has no advantages in science and engineering, nor can it receive huge financial support like public universities. In addition, it is difficult to add soft power factors to the university rankings with specific quantitative figures. Its position is at a disadvantage. Inevitably.
Tang Huan has to consider every move in official affairs, and he can't turn a blind eye to certain factors like ordinary people.
In his opinion, when choosing a university in Japan that interacts with him, ranking is secondary. It mainly depends on school spirit, history, social contribution, etc., and the inclusive Waseda University is almost the only choice. .
In addition to the blooming philosophical training and certification centers, Tang Huan is also jointly researching localization issues such as Japanese input methods and Japanese fonts with Waseda University. After all, it is closer to the cultural category, and Japanese people have the most say. of.
The current president of Waseda University, Shimizu Division, is an engineering scholar. He sincerely welcomes the IT cooperation project provided by Tang Huan and accompanied him throughout the process.
At a ceremony to donate the second-generation Fangyuan computer, Tang Huan was asked that the first-generation Fangyuan computer currently on the market is basically a compatible machine produced by a third-party manufacturer in Japan. Does that mean that the second-generation Fangyuan computer Will this authorization model be adopted in the future?
"You don't have to wait for the future, it's now." Tang Huan, who had already made up his mind, gave the clearest answer so far.
Among the entourage, there was a professional reporter from the Japanese financial industry, who immediately realized that this should be a rather shocking news, so he immediately wrote an article and sent it back to the newspaper office. Produced by manufacturers, Japanese consumers are expected to obtain further benefits.
Tang Huan, who released his plans to the outside world in an orderly manner, wandered around Waseda University without panic, sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Terrace and waiting for feedback from the outside world.
The development of Japanese fonts is a creation that coexists technology and art, and many people devote themselves to it for a sense of accomplishment.
However, compared with the Western alphabet, the Eastern writing system is obviously too complicated, and it is difficult to do it alone. Therefore, many small groups have emerged, and they are eager to make the fonts they design appear in the computer.
After looking at several sets of font schemes, Tang Huan nodded in front of Secretary Shimizu, admiring Waseda University's profound cultural heritage and the extraordinary creativity of the students, and sponsored the research and development activities of these interest groups in his own name, and added I clearly explained that if any set of fonts is commercialized successfully, the copyright income has nothing to do with me.
If every university in Japan can reach Waseda University's affinity for round computers, then Tang Huan is completely confident that NEC's PC-9801 personal computer will lose its natural advantage in terms of local "people and people." Nothing left.
One of the members of the font interest group surprised Tang Huan. The other party turned out to be Haruki Murakami, a famous novelist decades later in the original time and space.
In a conventional sense, Haruki Murakami was not a well-behaved person during his studies. This kind of incongruity seems to have completely changed since he got married in 1971.
Murakami had to take a year off from Waseda University because he got married while he was in college, and it took him seven years to complete his college credits.
After getting married, Haruki Murakami and his wife worked in a record store during the day and in a cafe at night. Three years later, they opened a jazz cafe "Peter Cat" named after Murakami's pet, which sold coffee during the day and turned into a bar at night.
It can be said that during this period, Haruki Murakami was studying and observing all living beings by running a jazz shop, and accumulated rich social experience.
Haruki Murakami wrote his first novel "Listening to the Wind's Song" in 1979, and submitted his work to the literary magazine "Group Portrait" for the first time in the literary competition for new writers. As a result, he won the 1979 Group Portrait Newcomer Award in one fell swoop.
With this good start, the well-known Haruki Murakami sold his long-run jazz shop this year and became a professional writer. He is currently writing his third work.
"Murakami is really versatile." Tang Huan looked at the other party with interest.
"In fact, I have started to use a personal computer for my writing now. It is a Fangyuan computer with a very powerful typesetting function." Haruki Murakami, who is not good at words, replied succinctly.
Hearing this, Tang Huan gave a thumbs up in admiration, because at this stage, users who can actively accept the tool of personal computers are basically a little different. At least typing Japanese on the keyboard requires a period of adaptation. time.
In fact, Haruki Murakami’s main purpose of coming to Waseda University this time was to check out information in the library.
Fortunately, there was no air raid during the Pacific War, so unlike other libraries in Japan, the library of Waseda University is very well preserved, such as "Dust Tribulation" and other precious documents and historical materials that cannot be found elsewhere. It's all here.
Zheru was helping Waseda University to establish a new library computer management system. Tang Huan's next stop was to inspect the stage results there, so he simply took Haruki Murakami along the way and chatted while walking.
In the original time and space, Haruki Murakami has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature since 2009, and has been shortlisted for 6 consecutive years since then, but he has always been in the role of accompanying runner, which has to be said to be an interesting thing.
Many people associate Haruki Murakami with "Norwegian Wood". Based on this alone, it is impossible for Tang Huan to continue to pay attention after the coincidence.
Compared with other Japanese colleagues, Haruki Murakami's style is not very Japanese, but a very American novelist.
Japan is a hierarchical and step-by-step society. Haruki Murakami has a mentality of escaping from this, which even includes politics, war, and huge state machinery.
All in all, Haruki Murakami is a special Japanese, and Tang Huan also confirmed this through simple getting along with him.
You know, Japan's economy is in full swing, its national power is at its peak, and it is time to challenge the American boss to enjoy the dividends and glory from top to bottom, but Haruki Murakami seems a bit different.
When parting, Tang Huan said with a smile: "Murakami, I appreciate your novels very much. If you are willing to accept, I would like to subsidize your study tour in the United States for free, so as to write better works."
Haruki Murakami was stunned by the pie that fell from the sky, and he didn't know how to answer for a long time.
In the original time and space, Haruki Murakami was not only a Japanese novelist, but also an American literary translator. He admired Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler and Raymond Carver very much. An American writer, his writing style in the early years - that is, in the past few years - was also deeply influenced by him.
Therefore, if there is an opportunity to travel to the United States, Haruki Murakami will naturally wish for it.
"I forgot to explain, you can bring your wife to the United States." Tang Huan took a business card from his entourage and put it in the hands of Haruki Murakami, "If you think about it, call the number above."
……
The rumor that Tang Huan deliberately let out at Waseda University was immediately caught by those Japanese companies that have been paying attention to the personal computer industry.
The next morning, Sony's Akio Morita was the first to contact to confirm the matter.
At this time, Tang Huan was ready to leave for the United States.
"That's true. If Sony is interested, then go to the United States to discuss. I think you will also attend COMDEX, and I really don't have much time to stay in Japan." Tang Huan replied sincerely, but it was a bit tantalizing suspected.
There is also a hidden reason for his sloppiness.
NEC's personal computer PC-9801 is still in the prototype stage. There is no need for Tang Huan to rush into the challenge. He feels that he should take a good stance first and see how NEC responds.
If the situation is optimistic, then we can tighten our grip on the authorization of compatible machines, otherwise we can spread the hero post, a cloud-piercing arrow, and all the brothers and sisters will come to see us.
Moreover, this time buffer can also allow the software department, which is responsible for recovering the losses, to further prepare.
More importantly, the move to open the authorization of the second-generation Fangyuan computer compatible machine involves a series of patented technologies, and it will take a lot of time for the US legal department to carefully deliberate.
Compared with the transitional design of the first-generation Fangyuan computer, Tang Huan planned the architecture of the second-generation Fangyuan computer according to the industry standard goals, including the design of the ISA bus, IO ports, north-south bridge chips, memory sticks, expansion slots, etc. All leave room for future upgrades.
All these things added together are the so-called personal computer standards.
In the original time and space, Big Blue launched the IBM-PC, which made the concept of personal computers popular and popular all over the world.
But in fact, IBM is a profit-seeking company in the final analysis. It developed its own personal computer just to make money in this field.
Don't forget that the background of the birth of IBM-PC is that personal computers are recognized as a low-end device; the development cycle of the chess plan is too short, resulting in technology patchwork...
These restrictions are not a big problem when IBM-PC and other peers such as Apple Co. coexist, but when IBM-PC dominates the world and drives out other personal computers with different architectures, almost leaving only Apple Computer, it gradually becomes a problem. A stumbling block that limits the development of the entire personal computer industry.
One of the most obvious examples is that when Intel launched the microprocessor Intel 80286 with memory protection function, the conditions for a multitasking operating system were already available, but IBM and Microsoft, which dominate the entire personal computer industry, have never been able to do so. Make achievements.
This is the original sin of monopoly. Anyway, no matter what you do, you can make a lot of money every day, so why bother with that.
Therefore, the IBM-PC standard has had many flaws since its birth. It can be said that Big Blue led everyone in a wrong direction from the starting line.
However, Tang Huan's standard embodied in the second-generation Fangyuan computer has thrown his competitors out by several blocks.
This superiority gap is reflected in multiple technical levels, perhaps from the perspective of the motherboard BIOS and hard disk MBR that users come into contact with before installing the operating system, it can best explain the problem.
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System is the basic input and output system. It is the first software loaded when a personal computer is started and is used to perform self-tests of various parts of the system.
When this stage, known as Power On Self Test (POST), is complete, the PC will hand over control to the operating system.
The BIOS of IBM-PC is written in assembly language for 16-bit CPU, namely Intel 8086. It works in real mode, and the maximum memory addressing space is 1MB.
Keyboards, graphics cards, floppy disk drives, etc. are recognized by IBM as standard equipment. Their drivers are fixed in the memory space at high addresses, and the remaining memory address space is available for users to use.
The 1MB capacity and inflexible memory address allocation scheme were once considered sufficient by the chess project team, but the actual situation was that they did not really understand the development trend of personal computers.
As the functionality of the device increases, the driver will become larger; and the emergence of a large number of other new types of devices will spawn new drivers, and this space will soon be insufficient.
The resulting disadvantage is that most new equipment or new functions of standard equipment cannot be used in the BIOS.
For example, future USB devices cannot be operated through BIOS for a long time, and even booting from a USB hard disk has become a problem.
The calling function provided by BIOS is only used by DOS, while Windows and Linux ignore BIOS and directly control the hardware from the bottom layer. BIOS is completely reduced to tasteless.
Tang Huan is naturally not so short-sighted in the design of BIOS. His BIOS is not limited to real mode, and the driver uses the dynamic loading method to fundamentally support more hardware devices.
Master Boot Record——MBR is the master boot record. It is a piece of code located in the master boot sector of the hard disk. It registers the relevant information of the hard disk itself, as well as the size and location information of each partition of the hard disk.
The most obvious limitation of IBM-PC here is that only 4 primary partitions are allowed on the same hard disk.
With the increase of hard disk capacity, there will be a lot of troubles.
(End of this chapter)
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