Rebirth of the Tech Madman

After listening to Spielberg's reminder, Tang Huan nodded thoughtfully. :3wし

Naturally, his subordinates would not think too much money to burn their hands, thinking that their own party made too much in Hollywood this year, so as to consider the feelings of others; on the contrary, it is Spielberg who is also a stakeholder, but more often the first The opinions expressed from the perspective of the tripartite parties can more objectively reflect the subtle changes in the mentality of the outside world.

"This year's summer season Lianmei and MGM’s great ride, Paramount’s accompaniment, and the onlookers of other companies just show that the overall development of Hollywood, compared with the glorious situation of decades, has fallen to the point. To what extent."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan increased his tone, "But precisely because of this, the American film industry may have reached the bottom and will usher in a new development opportunity. Las Vegas gambling_业大王科克Kirklian, Roberto Gosda of Coca-Cola, and Steve Ross of Warner should all have seen this sign, and only then have they come up with so many names."

Tang Huan looked at Spielberg and laughed, "I have only been in Hollywood for a few years. Even if I want to engage in a monopoly, do I have this capital? It's a ridiculous trick that someone deliberately worked out. As for the Columbia Film Company, Coca-Cola’s involvement in the relationship can only be said to be a coincidence. Who made me, a Silicon Valley nouveau riche, gracious. Of course, for film copyright reasons, I do have a little idea about Columbia Pictures. You know what, now The business of video recorders and video tapes is not just booming."

"It can only be said that you are too insightful in terms of investment, and the resulting tendency to come first has made some old forces feel jealous." Benefits obtained from Tang Huan. Spielberg, who has far more cooperating film companies before, sincerely complimented: "Now, your Hollywood lucky person's name has been established."

"Silicon Valley nouveau riche or Hollywood lucky ones. The sourness in this is too obvious, and it doesn't reflect the recognition of my personal ability and hard work." Tang Huan sighed, "Perhaps my ascent speed is really too fast. , People think that there are too many factors of luck."

Seeing the look of loneliness on Tang Huan's face, Spielberg sincerely comforted: "Many people only saw the scenery of Silicon Valley One, but didn't understand you as a trapeze. How hard it is to travel frequently around the world. Maybe humans. Society is always this complicated, and I often encounter such distress."

Although there is no Erguotou and peanuts, but there is red wine, Tang Huan and Spielberg have a drink.

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It is confirmed from Spielberg that Warner is still tirelessly digging the pit of "et aliens" for himself. Tang Huan pressed down the depression in his heart, and waited for a good show to play in a few months.

As for the antitrust investigation of the US Department of Justice, there will naturally be a department going to deal with the investigators. If he is serious, it will be a loss.

This effort was freed by Tang Huan to accompany Intel’s Andy Grove, and re-Gordon Moore, the proponent of Moore’s Law, to visit the Zheru R&D Center. The intel80286 prototype of the Intel cpu branch of the third-generation Fangyuan personal computer.

This year, Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have launched a joint price war against their American counterparts, and Intel has been complaining about it. It should have belonged to the main product on the market-64kb dynamic random access memory chip, the price has dropped from tens of dollars all the way. It seems to go straight to the single digits.

The companies that are affiliated with Compass and Texas Instruments, although they have also been affected, have directly entered the personal computer industry, taking advantage of this vertically integrated industry advantage. Not only is there no worries about the market for the chips produced, but there is still room to fight a price war with each other in the field of low-end personal computers. Attempt to kick the opponent out of the game.

Intel does not have this convenience, in order to win the trust of customers. It has set a rule for itself-the company's business does not enter areas that compete with customers.

In other words, Intel, which produces semiconductor memory chips and microprocessors, will not enter the field of computer manufacturing.

As a result, now, the thigh of memory, the main business that depends on survival, has been abruptly crippled by the partnership of Japanese semiconductor manufacturers, but the part of the microprocessor business is fairly orderly.

In order to compete with Motorola's quasi-32-bit microprocessors, Intel's process of upgrading its own cpu product line from intel8086 to intel80286 can be described as painstakingly, adding features that support error handling, virtual memory, and so on.

After the intel80286 was officially launched on the market at the beginning of this year, Intel has always hoped that this cpu can quickly enter the main box of the personal computer, but there are few responders.

Fortunately, Fangyuan Computer and ibm- have given a positive attitude and will develop personal computers based on intel80286.

In view of the fact that ibm-only used intel8086, a shrunken version of intel8086, and the fact that technology and market are weaker than Fangyuan Computer, Intel pays more attention to the performance of Fangyuan Computer.

The fact is also true. Tang Huan's speed is much faster than ibm. It took about half a year to take out the prototype of intel80286, which undoubtedly gave Intel, who felt a haze on his head, a ray of golden sunlight.

When Tang Huan, Andy Grove, and Gordon Moore walked into the conference room, the demonstrators were running the new game "Monopoly" launched by ea on the personal computer platform on the intel80286 prototype, which brought the two Intel bosses in front of them. At once, a thought flashed in my heart, "Is the maturity of the intel80286 prototype already so high?"

You know, running this type of video game is a test of the all-round capabilities of a personal computer.

When seeing the game at a certain meeting, the characters enter the simulated stock market trading scene, Andy Grove and Gordon Moore glanced at each other, and they felt astonished. A few months later. Fangyuan Computer is about to go on the market, of course, new products are needed to add to the excitement.

These irrelevant thoughts flashed by quickly, and Andy Grove and Gordon Moore were firmly attracted by the powerful performance demonstrated by the intel80286 prototype.

Woz's design is really impressive in terms of display functions, but there are still many shortcomings. In addition, the traces of his personal skills are too obvious, which limits the possibility of him becoming a standard.

Due to the variety of personal computer hardware standards at this stage, the implementation methods of the display function are correspondingly different.

For example, ibm-the display standard adopted at the beginning is called r-monochrome display adapter, or mda, which supports a resolution of up to 720x350, and can display 80 rows of 25 columns of text on one screen. It is twice as large as the 40 rows x 25 columns of the era.

However, mda has an obvious shortcoming, that is, it does not have the ability to draw, and it is immediately compared to its peers.

For example, the monochrome graphics card developed by the American Hercules company-the Hercules graphics card that supports a resolution of 720x348. Can display clear text and graphics.

It not only provides the function of displaying graphics with higher resolution at a relatively cheap price, but also opens up the underlying interface, allowing users to flexibly play the hardware functions, which is very beneficial to game development.

But success and failure can also be achieved. This low-level method is very difficult to master, especially the 720x348 resolution, which is too special and is quite different from the common industry standards of 640x480, 640x350, and 640x200.

In order to make their own ibm-with drawing capabilities. The Blue Giant quickly launched r-color graphics adapter or cga.

As the name suggests, cga is the first graphics card on ibm- that supports color.

The standard is to provide two standard text display modes: 40 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors and 80 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors; and two commonly used graphics display modes: 320 rows x 200 columns x 4 colors and 640 rows x 200 columns x 2 colors.

Of course. Game programmers can also simulate more colors on cga through special techniques.

It has to be said that the conservative style of the Blue Giant has also been fully demonstrated in product design. It thinks that it has launched cga in line with the times, but in fact it has not kept up with the changes in the personal computer market.

Tang Huan’s display implementation method designed for Fangyuan Computer is called-Video Graphics Standard or vgs.

The first generation of Fangyuan computers used version 10 of vgs. The highest resolution supported has reached 640x350, and 4 colors can be displayed in this mode.

As for the text mode. There are also two types, 80 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors. And 40 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors.

The second-generation Fangyuan computer uses version 15 of vgs, which supports a maximum resolution of 640x480, and can display 8 colors in this mode.

In terms of text mode, the 15 version of VGS is the same as the 10 version, with 80 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors and 40 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors, but there is an enhancement, that is, it also supports 4 background colors for text.

In addition, vgs has a complete set of assembly language function interfaces for programmers to carry out more precise control.

Compatible manufacturers of Fangyuan Computer will make various trade-offs on the public standards of Fangyuan Computer, but they will not shrink on vgs.

This makes Fangyuan Computer's display function significantly better than its competitors, and it has a set of system call interfaces, which has attracted more and more developers to develop games on this platform.

Three generations of Fangyuan computers use the 20 version of vgs, which supports the highest resolution of 640x480, and can display 16 colors in this mode.

In terms of text mode, in addition to 80 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors and 40 rows x 25 columns x 16 colors, there are 8 background colors for text.

It is worth noting that the 20 version of VGS can display 256 colors in 320x200 mode.

Of course, the entire vgs standard is backward compatible and supports the resolution of drawing sums in an analog way.

It can be said that the graphics cards used by the third-generation Fangyuan computers began to have the shadow of the personal computer graphics cards in the original time and space, and the heat generation has risen sharply. Because it uses the 256kb video memory produced by the French fab1 semiconductor factory, and the display core with a running frequency of 25mhz .

Tang Huan estimated that when the standards of the three generations of Fangyuan computers are released to compatible manufacturers, the display part will likely be reduced to.

In addition to the standard graphics card, this intel80286 prototype has a CPU operating frequency of 125mhz, a memory of 1mb, and a hard disk of 20mb. This undoubtedly pushes the performance of mainstream personal computers to a new level.

The running effect of the game "Monopoly" is compared with the Intel 8086 second-generation Fangyuan computer, which is also the Intel microprocessor series, as a reference, and there is a clear gap.

Next, the content of the demonstration is to run two programs at the same time-spreadsheet and word processing. This is obviously to show the features of intel80286 on multitasking support, which is implemented by the latest version of the operating system.

Among the current personal computer products at ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, only the high-end models of Fangyuan Computers support multi-tasking and are those products that use Motorola microprocessors.

In this respect alone, Intel and Motorola’s cpu are superior to each other, which makes Intel, which has always been a selling point of advanced technology, cherished for a long time.

Now that the l80286 is pushed out, the two sides are even tied.

In fact, this multitasking

Among the current personal computer products, only the high-end models of Fangyuan Computers support multi-tasking and are those products that use Motorola microprocessors.

In this respect alone, Intel and Motorola’s cpu are superior to each other, which makes Intel, which has always been a selling point of advanced technology, cherished for a long time.

Now that the l80286 is pushed out, the two sides are even tied.

In fact, this multitasking (to be continued)

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