Rebirth of the Tech Madman

All kinds of forums in the original space-time Internet era can be traced back to the current bbs in terms of function and technology, and it can even form an independent front-end application package product, which is distributed to users of similar scale although they have different purposes , and most of the differentiated requirements can be solved in a centralized configuration file.

The pbbs that Zheru is still testing has reached such a point. Tang Huan also recommended this system to James Brady, the White House press secretary who came to the Acupuncture Department of Baozang Hospital for physical therapy.

Because in the assassination of Reagan a few months ago, James Brady was hit in the head by a bullet and eventually caused paralysis, so although he is still in the position of White House press secretary, the actual work is done by the deputy. To be done.

It is not difficult to imagine James Brady's psychological gap from being a glorious presidential mouthpiece to a nominal display.

Tang Huan, who has been in Silicon Valley recently, specially brought James Brady from San Francisco to the Zheru Research and Development Center in Cupertino, allowing him to observe the operation of pbbs with his own eyes.

Limited by the current level of network and hardware development, the functions of pbbs are naturally much more unpretentious. For example, it only supports text, and even if each post can reach 10,000 floors, the resource expenditure is not worth the candle.

Of course, there are not no workarounds. Correspondingly, you can use codes to arrange meaningful graphics, create themes for posts, and so on.

Therefore, the performance of pbbs seen by James Brady is very exciting, and only Tang Huan, who knows how far the future network has developed, is qualified to say average comments.

Although pbbs only serves computer technology now, it is precisely because of this that it needs to adjust the boring atmosphere, and its social page is extremely lively.

Unlike those bbs platforms built by technology enthusiasts and those groups who became pioneers due to various external factors, pbbs was known as a professional one as soon as it debuted. In addition to adopting mature and advanced supporting hardware and software, it also rented a lot of communication lines very richly. This alone makes other bbs inferior.

It can be said that pbbs has become an important meeting center for people attracted by the emerging bbs culture.

naturally. The famous feature of the virtual world is reflected, that is, it is impossible to judge whether it is a human or a dog typing on the keyboard at the other end of the terminal on the Internet, and everyone speaks without any scruples.

Just like the recent case of Tang Huan, a rich man of Chinese descent, who has been deeply involved in a storm of public opinion, everyone has explained the mystery of it, no matter whether he deserves to be scolded by the nouveau riche. Still sympathizing with ethnic minorities is always easy to encounter invisible ceilings, and they are all targeted. After all, network fees are still very expensive.

Cherishing the gold-rich id is the instinctive consensus of bbs in the initial stage of development.

Many of them were so-called insightful people who helped Tang Huan deal with this crisis of public opinion. Among them, the spoofs often attracted a lot of discussion, and some even called Tang Huan an idiot violently. This is what the bbs showed. One of the characteristics of non-professional grassroots media communication.

James Brady after earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Illinois in 1962. He began to serve government departments, and since 1973, he has been serving as an assistant to senior ministerial officials.

In other words, the boss moved his mouth and his subordinates broke their legs to describe him.

Because of these practical work experiences, James Brady discovered the value of bbs without Tang Huan explaining it too bluntly—this is a new type of mass media. Operate the tool behind the scenes.

Is this product ready for sale? James Brady asked with a bright eye. Perhaps. The White House press office is suitable for this system.

Although it is still in testing, it is already extremely useful. Tang Huan smiled slightly. As the first customer, I can give this system as a gift. But the hardware needs to be paid for.

Then it's decided. James Brady pointed to the pbbs exclusive Philosopher mark on the monitor, How long will it take for this information to be changed to the words corresponding to the White House?

This product uses our original centralized configuration, and there is no time to adjust it even after it is delivered to the White House. Tang Huan replied confidently.

James Brady, who was eager to prove that he had use value instead of a white-collar pension, returned to Washington immediately despite his wife's objections. Asking Reagan for instructions, I found a new high-tech tool to communicate with the people. If the White House Press Office adopts this tool, it will definitely have good results.

In the original time and space, during his eight-year presidency, Reagan has always let this tragic subordinate who caught fire at the city gate and caused pond fish to wear the title of White House press secretary. No matter what the purpose is, there may not be a trace of guilt in it.

Regardless of whether this guess is reliable, anyway, Reagan immediately agreed to James Brady's suggestion, and gave the other party full responsibility.

Therefore, when the X-Files repeatedly mentioned bbs, it has quietly entered the White House.

A wider range of media personnel, via PCs and modems, connected to pbbs, which is currently the most recommended, is a little behind.

However, their surprise was also not small. It turns out that the virtual space can also be so lively.

As expected, the clues claimed can be found here, such as the public information on the daily operation of the Shennong Foundation.

Many of them were dazzled, like lost lambs, abducted into the mud game world.

Soon, the executives of various media jumped up and started scolding, is there something wrong with AT\u0026T's system, why the number on the bill has suddenly become so large, it seems that you are right to split up.

No, the black heart of this company must be explained to the public.

So, unknowingly, criticisms against Tang Huan in the media were replaced by discussions about various products of the company under his name, and even sought after. The lawsuit between Tang Huan and the San Francisco Observer was also mentioned from time to time, what stage it had reached.

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Tang Huan has already left the fearless stage where he was barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes. In his current status, like porcelain, he must know how to better protect himself.

For those attacks that make a lot of trouble, it is not acceptable to go to the front line shirtless, and it is not acceptable to act rashly and leave troubles. In short, there are many constraints, and the best way is to resolve the problem invisible.

If it is not so high-end, it is not enough to convince allies and fear opponents.

With the help of those eager to kill a bloody way in the media field, the Washington Post was slapped heavily. After smashing the reports of the Washington Post and San Francisco Observer, Tang Huan decided to completely destroy the San Francisco Observer.

This grievance is so obvious, there is no need to cover it up, just resort to the law directly.

Pifu was angry, blood spattered five steps. Why bother to be a dignified capitalist, and billionaires have more prefixes of Chinese descent, but it doesn't mean that anyone can provoke them.

It just happened to consolidate the support of public opinion in San Francisco, the headquarters of San Francisco. Otherwise, it would be hard to say or not to be scolded by the newspapers on its own territory.

However, Regis McKenna posed a problem for Tang Huan, Since you don't bother to speak out and respond to those doubts about your integrity, you have to take action to make a statement and fight back. The most important thing is to falsify your academic qualifications. , you might as well continue to study for a Ph.D. Just shut everyone up.

Hearing this suggestion, Tang Huan grinned wryly at the time. Gein, balancing work and study, was such a hard job that he also retreated. He persisted in his master's degree entirely to explain to his aunt.

What's more, for Tang Huan, a higher academic title is just an embellishment, and his achievements no longer need to be proved by it.

But Regis McKenna analyzed well and listened to people's advice to have a full meal. I specially invited a public relations consultant, isn't it just to let him check and fill in the gaps.

For convenience, Tang Huan directly chose Stanford University, which is located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Zheru has specially set up a consulting agency to attract well-known computer experts and scholars. Therefore, I know a lot about the professors of various universities.

Regis McKenna's suggestion was to find a non-Chinese mentor, but after picking and choosing, he selected Donald Delvin Knuth.

Before this person visited China in 1977, he took a Chinese name called Gao Dena, and he won the Turing Award as early as 1974.

Comprehensive consideration of academic standing. As well as his understanding of the cultural differences between the East and the West, Tang Huan found that Knuth was indeed a good choice, so he made a decision.

The next step of finding recommendation letters and so on is not a problem for Tang Huan at all. After a simple operation, everything will be done.

Knuth is an interesting guy, and it can be said that he is a hacker with two elements required: a tireless pursuit of technology and an obsession with music.

Knuth had already dealt with Tang Huan before, and made it clear that he liked this text processing software, because it made it much easier for him to write the book - The Art of Computer Programming.

In addition, Gartner also had a strong interest in the desktop publishing system launched by Tang Huan, and even started to develop a font design system called .

It can be said that there is quite a kind of like-mindedness between Knuth and Tang Huan, so this mentor-student relationship was established very smoothly and quickly, and Tang Huan officially became Knuth's subordinate. PhD students.

Immediately afterwards, Knuth arranged a task for Tang Huan-to give a speech and answer his master's thesis on operating systems for those who were interested.

From the perspective of simple sensory cognition, the operating system is also some files that are called by the CPU from the disk into the memory, but it is special because it controls all hardware resources.

Whether an operating system is advanced or not depends on many aspects, such as how memory is used, especially in a multitasking environment. If it performs well, it means making full use of hardware resources. If it performs poorly, improper resource allocation will cause the system to crash.

However, the stability and efficiency of the system are often difficult to balance, and a reasonable balance must be found.

This is like a busy road section. If a car does not obey the rules and jams indiscriminately, it may not only slow down itself, but also cause traffic jams for everyone.

If fences are put between the lanes to isolate the lanes from each other, then all the cars can drive in their own lanes honestly and cannot interfere with the operation of other lanes. Even if something happens, the harm is only Confined within this lane, it will not cause the entire road to be paralyzed.

But if the vehicle really needs to change lanes, it has to wait for the next intersection, which undoubtedly increases the time cost and reduces the efficiency.

For example, Microsoft's ms-, its own memory space and the memory space of the application program are not isolated from each other. If the application program is not designed in a standardized way, something goes wrong and crashes, then ms- will also be implicated, and the entire system will be damaged. Crashed.

This isolation mechanism is provided, thereby greatly reducing the possibility of crashes.

In addition to the choice of isolation between the operating system and applications, similar phenomena also exist within the operating system. After all, the functions provided by the operating system will only increase, and modular design is a natural choice.

If the isolation mechanism inside the operating system is improperly used, it is very easy to reduce the execution efficiency of the system.

Therefore, the modularization of the operating system is also a topic worthy of careful discussion, and thus three concepts have emerged around the operating system kernel: - microkernel, - macrokernel, - hybrid kernel.

In Tang Huan's master's thesis, he discussed such topics, especially he has practical experience, that is, the operating system used by Fangyuan computer and Xiaobawang game console, as well as the operating system used in Yipeng/server/ Workstation OS Vientiane /.

Now the more successful general-purpose high-end operating system is Bell Labs, and some of its features that are only used for servers have become the focus of research.

Tang Huan's exposition in the paper made people who care about this field shine, but many readers felt that they had reservations, so they had the speech task assigned by Knuth.

When Tang Huan came to the scene, he found that many people had a relationship with him, but a few of them made him have a playful smile on his face, I said why you urged me so enthusiastically, it turned out to be waiting to absorb the experience , so I can start a company.” (To be continued.) xh118

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