Rebirth of the Tech Madman

In order to ensure the execution of the Fangyuan Computer Standard Alliance, Tang Huan did it himself, listening to the plans of every partner, especially those third-party isa expansion card manufacturers, and confirmed in person that their products will not be later than November this year. Available in the fall.

In a word, Tang Huan wanted to give the Fangyuan Computer Standard Alliance an initial acceleration as large as possible. As long as the chariot started running, no one could stop it, even himself included. All he can control is to guide the direction of progress through the operating system, the North and South Bridge chips.

Dealing with these matters is inevitably boring, but the few events he took time to attend were still very interesting.

Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and EA have jointly built two network platform applications - bbs (electronic bulletin board system) and mud (mud online game), and recruited college students to test during the summer vacation.

As far as the hardware structure is concerned, the Yi Peng/server prototype is used in the background, Fangyuan Computer and Apple Computer are used in the front end, and the public switched telephone network is used in the network without any other choice.

The front-end personal computer is connected to the back-end server on the public switched telephone network through a modem.

The current network speed is roughly between 150bps and 300bps, which is not the same as the future broadband conditions, and the cost is extremely expensive, but as a necessary expenditure for research projects, it is still worth the money.

Both bbs and mud are not Tang Huanlai's turn to be original, and their technical prototypes and application examples came into being as early as the 1970s.

The public-facing dial-up system—bbs that is considered to be in operation earlier is the 1978 system—cbbs.

The background of its birth was the great snowstorm in the Great Lakes region of North America in 1978. Due to the inconvenience of communication, Ward Christensen and Randy Seth thought of creating a public bbs.

The services provided by bbs are very practical, including bulletin boards, classified discussion areas, news reading, software and game exchanges, online conversations with users, and so on.

Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and EA officially provide BBS services as part of their product support.

And Tang Huan also sponsored the cost of bbs research and development and application to various universities on the west coast, causing the bbs culture to become popular, and his id was also very famous in the circle.

During the research and development of bbs system, network communication protocol is a very important subject.

Currently.

Haven't replaced the old ones in arpa-net yet - multi-user virtual spaces etc.

After Tang Huan presented these names, EA chose to use user—mud as the name of the official operation.

In the field of bbs, Tang Huan is an old bird. He uses it more to explain computer technology, attracting many believers who call themselves disciples and grandchildren.

But for mud. It was the first time he participated in it as a player.

When a command is typed in, the system prompts: You have come to a square, but there is no one else here except yourself.

At this time, the system broadcast the news of Tang Huan's landing, but Tang Huan didn't pay much attention to it, and knocked on west casually, intending to go all the way west.

But it didn't take long for the system to prompt that the crowd was coming, and a large number of greeting emojis appeared. Then it crashed.

Seeing this scene, Hawkins shrugged helplessly, I told the administrators not to broadcast, but they still make trouble. Your appeal is so great. It's strange that the server doesn't crash if you attract so many people to send system requests. .”

Tang Huan shook his head with a smile, These guys just use me to test the limits of the system.

Overall, the performance of the mud is quite good, as can be seen from the enthusiasm of the testers.

but. Due to the objective limitation of the current high network costs, it is not so easy to popularize functional and practical bbs and social entertainment mud.

But in any case, through the test of the mud project, Zheru's network technology reserves have been significantly strengthened.

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Tang Huan's next most important itinerary is a trip to the mainland. This time it's not like before, he only circles around the southern cities, he is going to officially enter Beijing.

As an important spice for exchanges, the status of sports cannot be ignored. Tang Huan specially invited Nelligin from Moscow, Soviet Union to San Francisco, intending to let the Olympic champion help out.

The last time Tang Huan went to Baodao in the name of a business delegation, he brought the Oakland Athletics, a major league baseball team, this time, Tang Huan led the NBA's Golden State Warriors.

Although there was a slight conflict in time, Tang Huan had already communicated with the NBA.

But what he didn't expect was that just such a big deal made the executive vice president of the NBA, David Stern, make a trip in person.

Through the conversation, Tang Huan guessed the reason why David Stern was so enthusiastic.

Realistically speaking, compared to the strong gold-absorbing ability of Major League Rugby and Major League Baseball. The nba has always been relatively weak, not to mention that its further popularity will have to wait until Jordan's era in the next few years to hype it.

In the original time and space, after David Stern became the president of the nba. During his 30-year tenure, for the development and growth of the NBA, it can be said that he has devoted himself to the development and growth of the NBA, and there are even some controversies in it.

For example, in the 1985 NBA draft lottery, seven envelopes representing seven teams were placed in a cylinder and spun. Then David Stern draws envelopes in order to determine the ownership of No. 1 to No. 7 picks.

Video footage shows the result: Two envelopes were placed heavily in, while another five envelopes were placed gently on the bottom of the cylinder.

After the cylinder had been spun three or four times, David Stern picked up several stacked envelopes and chose the bottom one.

Ever since, the New York Knicks got the No. 1 pick.

This made many people suspect that the NBA deliberately sent the best player Ewing to New York in order to expand the TV broadcast market and enhance the influence of the NBA.

And the specific way of cheating. There's speculation about frozen envelopes, where envelopes representing the Knicks were frozen in the freezer ahead of time, so David Stern could pick out the only cold envelope with his fingers.

There are different opinions on such events, but in order to develop and expand the nba audience, David Stern's measures to establish training camps, tour games around the world, recruit more international players, etc. are indeed unmistakable.

In other words, David Stern, the executive vice president, heard that Tang Huan was going to take an NBA team to the world's most populous eastern country for exchange activities. Can't help seeing Lie Xinxi, and moved some other thoughts.

We are all smart people, some things don't need to be said so bluntly, Tang Huan cares about enriching the content of the mainland itinerary. David Stern attaches great importance to the influence of the nba. There is no conflict between the two sides, but there is quite a common interest orientation. It is not surprising that the subsequent conversation was very happy.

After discovering that preparations for the trip to the mainland still needed a few days, Tang Huan took Nelkin around for a while.

Seeing that the other party still maintains an exquisite figure. Tang Huan remembered one thing.

The study of computerized data processing of sports has not only arranged a team in charge of the Chelsea club, but also the teams in the United States.

When Nelkin personally confirmed that she could still complete the performing gymnastics, Tang Huan arranged for a technical team to carry out on-site research in the company's internal gymnasium with equipment.

Tang Huan even took the initiative to punch a few times when he was eager for skills.

Facing the compliments from his subordinates, Tang Huan, who was very satisfied with his level of physical fitness, waved his hands and said with a smile: I hope that my hard work will help the progress of the project, at least fighting games are now fully equipped with the basis for realization.

After receiving the towel from Nelkin, Tang Huan added: Besides, I invited you an Olympic gymnastics champion to provide you with more reference data.

Neelkin was curious and couldn't help asking, Can fighting games have female characters?

Of course. Tang Huan laughed loudly, According to my estimation, players are likely to be particularly fond of it.

It is quite interesting to simply participate in this kind of technical research, and Tang Huan regards it as a kind of relaxation.

During this period, Tang Wenmao brought news that Tang Huan asked Maya Lin to design the Museum of Chinese in America, which had been completed in San Francisco's Chinatown. As a sponsor, he had to show his face at the opening ceremony.

For this invitation, Tang Huan was of course obliged to attend.

The land of the museum was bought by the Shennong Foundation, and the Chinese in Chinatown also provided various supports, so the process from financing, design to completion, etc., was very smooth.

On the day of the opening ceremony, lion dances and whipping were very lively.

Tang Huan chatted with Maya Lin for a few words, and learned that Jobs had recently invited Maya Lin to discuss the technical design of the product's appearance for his own sake.

Regarding this, Tang Huan was very speechless. Now that the personal computer market is so crowded, you are still so leisurely and elegant.

In fact, Maya Lin's popularity is currently limited to professional circles. The wider society and the general public don't know much about her. After all, her famous work, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, has not yet been completed.

On July 1 last year, the U.S. Congress approved the three-acre site of the Constitution Garden near the National Mall, northeast of the Lincoln Memorial, as the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and announced the start of a design competition.

By December 29 of that year, more than 2,500 people had registered to participate in the design competition with a prize of 50,000.

On March 31 this year, the selection committee collected more than 1,400 designs.

Maya Lin's design was unanimously chosen as the winner on May 6 this year after being numbered to make the author anonymous.

However, since Maya Lin's Asian identity is a sensitive issue, relevant parties have deliberately avoided her name even until now.

To be honest, compared to the strong gold-absorbing ability of Major League Rugby and Major League Baseball, the NBA has always been relatively weak, not to mention that its further popularity will have to wait until Jordan's era in the next few years to hype.

In the original time and space, after David Stern became the president of the NBA, during his 30-year tenure, he devoted himself to the development and growth of the NBA, and there were even some controversies in it.

For example, in the 1985 NBA lottery draft, seven envelopes representing seven teams were placed in a cylinder and rotated, and then David Stern pulled out the envelopes in order to determine the ownership of No. 1 to No. 7 picks.

Video footage shows the result: Two envelopes were placed heavily in, while another five envelopes were placed gently on the bottom of the cylinder.

After the cylinder had been spun three or four times, David Stern picked up several stacked envelopes and chose the bottom one.

Ever since, the New York Knicks got the No. 1 pick.

This made many people suspect that the NBA deliberately sent the best player Ewing to New York in order to expand the TV broadcast market and enhance the influence of the NBA.

As for the specific way of cheating, there is speculation about the frozen envelope, that is, the envelope representing the Knicks was placed in the refrigerator in advance to cool (to be continued.) xh118

...Easy. Look. Small. Say.