Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 732 Enlightenment Internet Application

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After Tang Huan returned to the San Francisco Bay Area along the construction route of the California high-speed rail project, he happened to catch up with the Zheru Developers Conference.

Today, as an obvious evidence of the formation of Tang's IT Kingdom, various conferences and community cultural exchanges can be described as colorful.Only the most important events include Zerone_Worldwide_Partner_Conference—Zerone Worldwide Partner Conference (ZWPC), Zerone_Professional_Developers_Conference—Zerone Developers Conference (ZPDC), Zerone_Hardware_Engineering_Conferenc—Zerone Hardware Engineering Seminar (ZHEC), etc.

These events, which are held throughout the year, will be held in cities across the United States in addition to San Francisco, with plans to expand outside the United States.

It is obvious that gathering thousands of elites and lasting for several days each time will not only drive the economy of the host city, but also increase the city's popularity through media attention. It has become a new economic model comparable to the exhibition economy, and is very popular all over Welcome to the government.

With the more prosperous era of microcomputers brought about by the wave of personal computers, various new technologies and new applications emerge one after another, and the content of the Confucianism Developer Conference has become more and more extensive, and the activity time has increased from the initial two or three days to Now the schedule is full of seven days
The content of this year's Zheru Developer Conference mainly revolves around two major platforms - the latest version of the graphical user interface operating system studioOS1988 and the brand new 32-bit game console of the third generation Xiaobawang game console.

Tang Huan did agree, and the release of studioOS1988 was postponed to August this year to ease the pressure on the launch of NeXT computers to the market, but that was only in terms of retail channels, enterprise users were not included in this scope, and studioOS1988 had already been released to Fangyuan In the hands of OEM manufacturers of personal computers and compatible machines.

As the second major version of Zheru's universal graphical user interface operating system, studioOS1988 naturally has many functional enhancements.

For example, user-operable elements such as colors, fonts, icons, menus, windows, bitmaps, videos, audios, mouse pointers, etc. that can be seen and heard can be intuitively found to be delicate, delicate, and easy to use. few.

Tang Huan fiddled with his laptop, displayed them on the big screen through the projector, and concluded: "This version of studioOS, the supporting application program interface is further enriched and powerful, which greatly reduces the need for programmers to develop third-party The difficulty of graphical software."

At this time, the staff took a note from the audience and handed it to Tang Huan.

After reading it, Tang Huan said with a smile: "Someone is curious about my laptop. In fact, the hardware requirements of studioOS1988 are really not harsh. There is a slightly special feature, that is, due to the protection mode of the Intel microprocessor The underlying changes, it no longer supports Intel80286, it only supports Intel80386 series products, Motorola MC68000 series processors do not have such a situation. In terms of memory, it can run with 2MB capacity, and the experience will be better with 4MB capacity.”

"The biggest problem with the laptop running studioOS1988 is the hard disk, which is also a difference between my laptop and other ordinary laptops."

"The Zheru R&D Center has just successfully developed the world's first 2.5-inch hard drive. My laptop is equipped with such a product with a capacity of 20MB."

"Although I am the boss, I can't make the laptop more powerful than the rules. So when you develop new programs for studioOS1988, you only need to use the fourth-generation Fangyuan PC and above."

After finishing this gossip, Tang Huan continued to introduce the new features of studioOS1988, "StudioOS has always attached great importance to supporting network functions, and the latest 1988 version provides a new concept of network streaming."

"At present, people are often distressed that when downloading something on the Internet that is still expensive, once it is interrupted, they have to start from the beginning again, and it may have taken a very long time before."

"It's good now, studioOS1988 supports breakpoint downloads. Even if the download is interrupted, the previous download results will not be invalidated, and you can continue to download on this basis."

"Of course, this mechanism requires the cooperation and support of network protocols, service providers, etc. Currently, America Online can provide us with a demonstration of this latest breakpoint download function."

"I'm here to demonstrate to you, for example, download the latest free multimedia player software XingPlay from America Online's software market."

As a result, a note was handed up from the audience: When you were demonstrating, besides using a different laptop, why did you connect to the Internet so special?The transmission speed of more than a dozen KB simply blinds our eyes.

Tang Huan pointed to the percentage increase of express delivery in the blue progress bar on the screen, and laughed, "Pacific Telecom did open a plug-in for me, and one of the network lines it provided for this Philosophy and Confucianism Developers Conference is the experimental The revolutionary ADSL, the transmission speed has reached 64kbit/s."

"We can imagine that as long as there are more such lines and requests are sent at the same time, the unprepared AOL server is very likely to be exhausted and collapse, and the vigilant network administrator may have noticed by now."

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and Tang Huan, who enjoyed the technical exchange atmosphere, waved his hands, "But everyone will be disappointed for the time being, this ADSL is still in the experimental stage, but the traditional modem dial-up Internet access method may be the first to achieve 19.2kbit/s speed."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan unplugged the network cable casually, "I created a situation where the download had to be interrupted. Next, let's use the more popular traditional modem dial-up method."

With the unique "meowing sound" of this device, Tang Huan reconnected his laptop to the Internet and started the download again. Sure enough, the previous 90.00% five download progress was preserved, and this time the download progressed from 90.00% five At first, it's just that the download speed is much slower.

After the progress reached [-]%, Tang Huan directly clicked on the downloaded result, the program started, and XingPlay was successfully installed on the laptop, which proved that there was no problem in the operation of the breakpoint transfer, and the crowd automatically gave a burst of warm applause.

Tang Huan started the media player software XingPlay to expand the topic, "This network streaming mechanism also brings a new concept to the transmission of multimedia on the Internet, which we call streaming media. XingPlay can not only play MIDI, In addition to wave audio files, MP3, CD, VCD and other media formats, streaming media is also supported. Sorry, I forgot to connect the speakers."

After Tang Huan plugged in the connector, everyone in the meeting heard a clear and smooth voice, which seemed to be a sports host explaining a certain event.

"Streaming media is also in the experimental stage." Tang Huan explained: "What we listen to is an Internet radio station, which should be a live broadcast of a sports game on a university campus."

Even so, the participants were still shocked.Like an enlightening teacher, Gein Tang Huan slowly opened the curtain of Internet applications in the dawn stage in front of them. He is not only full of creativity, but also has unlimited prospects.

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This is indeed the case. The Internet plays a large role in this Zheru Developer Conference, and it has even spread to EA's long-awaited third-generation Xiaobawang game console.

At this stage, the game console market has fully entered the 16-bit era and has become the mainstream, such as NEC's PC_Engine, Sega's Mega_Drive, and even Nintendo, which has always been sophisticated in computing, launched Super_Family_Computer on the basis of FC, which is commonly known as Super Nintendo.

Unlike the replacement rules of the personal computer market that "as soon as a new product comes out, the old product will be discarded", the vitality of an excellent game console is still quite tenacious.

The Xiaobawang game console of the same 2600-bit era as the Atari 8, although all competitors disappeared in that market crash, it is still active in the worldwide market, especially Third world markets like Latin America.

The reason is naturally that Tang Huan gave the Xiaobawang game console the genes of an almost perfect architecture from the beginning, and continued to optimize it with the advancement of technology in the past few years. The result is so long that Nintendo even thinks that it has integrated all the 8-bit game consoles. The essence of FC has become very embarrassing.

It has to be said that when real technical masters and capital predators set their sights on the relatively low-end field of game consoles, the marketing methods that Nintendo used to myth about itself in the original time and space to elevate the status are useless. Where it can be used - game consoles must follow the development of the personal computer industry. Even if the hardware loses money, it must gain platform share, and then use the sales revenue of game software to make up for it.

Taking the 16-bit second-generation Xiaobawang game console as an example, it clearly followed this route and achieved great market success.In fact, after continuous optimization, the second-generation Xiaobawang game console that persisted, its own hardware is no longer sold at a loss, and even time is slowly leveling the hardware cost of the entire second-generation Xiaobawang game console era.

Relying on this extremely valuable successful experience, EA was methodical and confident in the process of launching the third generation of Xiaobawang game consoles, and was then covered with mystery by the outside world.

It is almost certain that, as the world’s first true 32-bit game console, the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles will definitely be sold at a loss in the initial sales stage, and only Mr. Richest’s EA can manage such a luxurious product layout. .

But this ecological circle must be preempted. From the functions such as online online and multimedia playback supported by the third-generation Xiaobawang game console, it can be seen that its value is not just a simple game console, but an all-round home entertainment center.

This product is jointly developed by EA and Zheru, and adopts many mature technologies of the latter.

Different from the previous two generations of products, the hardware architecture of the third-generation Xiaobawang game console adopts more of the wisdom crystallization inside Tang's IT kingdom.

For example, the CPU uses a special version of the RISC microprocessor Holder with a running frequency of 40MHz, which optimizes the multimedia application to the greatest extent on the hardware.

The reason for this change is not only that Holder is becoming more and more mature and powerful, but also that Motorola is becoming weaker and weaker in terms of microprocessor operations.

In the first half of the 1980s, the amazing MC68000 family of microprocessors could be said to kill all competitors in the market, and it was so powerful that it could become the computing core of workstation products.

The second-generation Xiaobawang game console and the Xiaobawang arcade machine adopt the special version of MC68000, which makes it a leader in the electronic game industry.

But the current MC68000 is almost a bad street, and Motorola seems a little powerless in the development of follow-up products, and is being gradually caught up by Intel's Intel80386.At the same time, it was distracted by the development of the RISC microprocessor MC88000.

It has to be said that the strong performance and commercial success of RISC at this stage have given it an advantage in the debate on the merits of RSIC and CISC, confusing the academic and business circles, and many companies have to do it. Be prepared, as Motorola is.

But the problem is that Motorola is a traditional technology company, not a Silicon Valley company like Intel, and its mechanism is increasingly unable to adapt to the rapid changes in the computer industry. In addition, the mobile communication business that has invested heavily in the layout for many years has begun to generate huge profits. In return, its management is absent-minded and absent-minded.

Tang Huan, who has seen through this point, could still choose Motorola as the supplier of the third-generation Xiaobawang game console.Anyway, your own system is complete, so you should be "self-reliant".

Therefore, in addition to the core of the CPU, another heavyweight component, the graphics processor, is also produced by itself. Decode and play VCD.

The operating system of the third-generation Xiaobawang game console is stored in EEPROM, and the firmware can be upgraded. It is also another core of the content of this Philosophy Developer Conference.

(End of this chapter)