Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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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 a clear evidence of the formation of Tang's it kingdom, various meetings and community cultural exchanges can be described as rich and colorful. For the most important events, there are zerone_worldwide_partner_conference——Zheru Global Partner Conference, namely zwpc, zerone_——Zheru Developer Conference, namely zpdc, zerone_hardware_engineering_conferenc——Zheru Hardware Engineering Seminar, namely 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 Zheru Developer Conference mainly revolves around two major platforms - the latest version of the graphical user interface operating system and the brand-new 32-bit game console, the third-generation Xiaobawang game console.

Tang Huan did agree, and postponed the release date to August this year to reduce the pressure on the launch of the next computer, but that is only in terms of retail channels, corporate users are not included in this scope, and it has already been released to Fangyuan PC. In the hands of OEM manufacturers of compatible machines.

As Zheru's second major version of the general-purpose graphical user interface operating system, it naturally has many 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 one by one through the projector, and concluded: This version, the supporting application program interface is further enriched and powerful, which greatly reduces the need for programmers to develop third-party graphics. the difficulty of optimizing the 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 are really not too harsh. There is a little special thing, because the underlying protection mode of the Intel microprocessor 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 a capacity of 2mb, and the experience will be better with a capacity of 4mb.”

The biggest problem with the operation of the laptop is the hard drive, which is also a difference between my laptop and other ordinary laptops.

Zheru R\u0026D Center has just successfully developed the world's first 2.5-inch hard drive. My laptop is equipped with a 20mb hard drive.

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

After finishing this gossip, Tang Huan continued to introduce the new functions, We have always attached great importance to the support of network functions, and the latest 1988 version provides a new concept of network streaming.

At present, people often worry that when downloading something on the Internet where the tariff is still expensive, once it is interrupted, it has to start from the beginning again.

And it may have taken a very long time before.

It's good now, it supports breakpoint downloads. Even if the download is interrupted, the previous download results will not be invalidated, and the download can be continued on this basis.

Of course, this mechanism requires the cooperation and support of network protocols, service providers, etc. Currently, America Online is available for us to demonstrate this latest breakpoint download function.

I'm here to demonstrate to you, such as downloading the latest free multimedia player software from America Online's software market.

As a result, a note was handed over 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 ten kilobytes is almost blinding 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 revolutionary adsl, the transmission speed 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, 95% of the previous download progress was preserved. Ninety-five percent start, but the download speed is much slower.

After the progress reached 100%, Tang Huan directly clicked on the downloaded result, the program started, and the program was successfully installed on the laptop, which proved that there was no problem in the operation of the breakpoint transmission, and everyone automatically gave a burst of warm applause.

Tang Huan started the media player software and extended the topic, This mechanism of network streaming also brings a new concept to the transmission of multimedia on the Internet, which we call streaming media. In addition to playing midi and waveform audio In addition to file, 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 that are still 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 part in this Confucianism Developers Conference, and it 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 the super_family_computer on the basis of fc, commonly known as Super Nintendo.

Different from the replacement rules in 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 8-bit era as the Atari 2600, although all competitors disappeared in that market crash, it is still active in the worldwide market, especially Third world markets like Latin America.

Naturally, the reason is that Tang Huan gave the Xiaobawang game console a nearly perfect architecture gene from the very beginning, and then continued to optimize it with the advancement of technology in the past few years. The result was so green that Nintendo even thought it integrated all 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 advance with 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 third generation 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 the crystallization of wisdom inside Tang's it kingdom.

For example, the cpu uses a special version of the risc microprocessor holder, the operating frequency is 40mhz, and the multimedia application is optimized on the hardware.

The reason for this change is not only that the 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 stunning mc68000 family of microprocessors could be said to have killed all competitors in the market, and was so powerful that it could become the computing core of workstation products.

The second-generation Xiaobawang game console and Xiaobawang arcade machine, which adopt the special version of mc68000, are the best in the electronic game industry.

But the current mc68000 is almost a rotten 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 advantages of rsic and cisc, which has confused 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.