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 just caught up with the Philosopher Developers Conference.

To this day, as an obvious evidence of the formation of the Tang Kingdom, the various conferences and community cultural exchanges can be described as rich and colorful. Only the most important events are zeroe_worldwide_partner_conference-zwpc, zeroe_, zpdc, zpdc, zeroe_hardware_engineering_conferenc, zhec, etc.

These events are held throughout the year. In addition to San Francisco, there are also other cities in the United States, and there are plans to expand outside the United States.

Obviously, each event that brings together thousands of elites and lasts for several days will not only boost the economy of the venue, but also increase the city’s popularity with the help of media attention. Welcome from the government.

With the more prosperous microcomputer era brought about by the personal computer wave, various new technologies and new applications are emerging one after another, and the content of the philosophical developer conference has become more and more extensive. The activity time has increased from the first two or three days to Now the schedule is full of seven days

The content of this year's Philosophy Developers Conference mainly revolves around two major platforms-the latest version of the graphical user interface operating system and the new 32-bit game console three-generation Xiaobawang game console.

Tang Huan did agree, and the release time was postponed to August this year to ease the pressure on the introduction of the next computer to the market, but only in terms of retail channels, corporate users are not in this range, and it has been released to Fangyuan Personal Computers. And its compatible machine's oem manufacturer.

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

For example, you can see and hear the colors, fonts, icons, menus, windows, bitmaps, videos, audios, mouse pointers, and other user-operable elements that can be visually found to be exquisite, delicate, and easy to use. less.

Tang Huan fiddled with his laptop and displayed it on the big screen one by one through a projector, and concluded: "This version has more rich and powerful application program interfaces, which greatly reduces the programmer's development of third-party graphics. Difficulty of changing software.

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

After reading it, Tang Huan smiled and said: "Some people are curious about my laptop. In fact, the hardware requirements are really not harsh. There is a little special feature, because the bottom layer of Intel microprocessor protection mode Change, it no longer supports intel80286, 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 laptops is the hard drive. This is also a difference between my laptop and other ordinary laptops."

"Zheru R&D Center has just successfully developed the world's first 2.5-inch hard drive, and my laptop is equipped with a 20mb capacity such product."

"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 four-generation Fangyuan personal computers and above."

After talking about this gossip, Tang Huan continued to introduce the new features, "All along, we have attached great importance to the support of network functions. The latest 1988 version provides a new concept of network streaming."

"At present, people are often troubled by the fact that when downloading things on the Internet, which is still expensive, once interrupted, they have to restart from the beginning, and it may have taken a very long time before."

"Now it's good, support breakpoint download. 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. At present, AOL can provide us with demonstration of this latest breakpoint download function."

"I'm here to give you a demonstration, such as downloading the latest free multimedia playback software from AOL's software market."

As a result, the audience handed over a note again: When you demonstrated, how could you not only use a different laptop, and how did you connect to the Internet so special? The transmission speed of more than ten kb is almost blinding our eyes.

Tang Huan pointed to the percentage increase of Fei Express in the blue progress bar on the screen, and laughed, "Pacific Telecom did open a plug-in for me. It provided the network line for this philosophical developer conference. One of them was the experiment. Sexual adsl, the transmission speed has reached 64kbit/s."

"We can imagine that as long as there are a few more lines of this kind and requests are made at the same time, the unprepared AOL server is very likely to be exhausted and collapsed. Maybe it has been noticed by vigilant network administrators by now."

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and Tang Huan, who was enjoying the atmosphere of technical communication, waved his hand, "But everyone will be disappointed for the time being. This kind of adsl is still in the experimental stage, but the traditional modem dial-up Internet access method may be the first to reach. 19.2kbit/s speed."

Having said that, Tang Huan unplugged the network cable. "I created a situation where I had to interrupt the download. Next, let us use the more popular traditional modem dial-up method."

With the peculiar "meow" of this device, Tang Huan reconnected his laptop to the Internet and performed the download again. As expected, 95% of the previous download progress was retained. This download is from Starting from 95%, it's just that the download speed is much slower.

After the progress reached 100%, Tang Huan directly clicked on the downloaded results, the program was launched, and successfully installed on the laptop, proving that there was no problem with the operation of the breakpoint transmission, and everyone was automatically applauded.

Tang Huan launched the media player software and extended the topic, "This network streaming mechanism 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 audience heard a clear and smooth voice. It seemed that the sports host was explaining a certain event.

"Streaming media is also in the experimental stage." Tang Huan explained: "We are listening to Internet radio, which should be live broadcasting sports games on which college campus."

In spite of this, the participants were still shaking. Gein Tang Huan is like an enlightenment teacher, in front of them, slowly opened the curtain of Internet applications that are still in the dawn stage, not only full of creativity, but also unlimited prospects.

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This is indeed the case. The Internet accounted for a large proportion of this philosophical developer conference, and it even spread to the three-generation Xiaobawang game console that ea has been calling for.

At this stage, the game console market has fully entered the 16-bit era and has become the mainstream. For example, nec's pc_engine, Sega's mega_drive, and even Nintendo, which has always been a computing player, has also launched super_family_computer on the basis of fc. Super Nintendo.

Unlike the personal computer market's "new products, old products are discarded" update rules, excellent game consoles are still quite tenacious.

The Cassidy game console of the same 8-bit era as the Atari 2600. Although all competitors disappeared during the market crash, it is still active in the world market, especially A third world market like Latin America.

Naturally, the reason is that Tang Huan gave the Cassiopeia game console the almost perfect architecture gene from the very beginning, and then continued to optimize with the advancement of technology in the past few years. As a result, Evergreen even made Nintendo think that it integrated all 8-bit game consoles. The essence of fc has become very embarrassing.

It has to be said that when real tech masters and capital predators focus on the seemingly low-end field of game consoles, the original Nintendo’s mythical marketing methods in time and space to elevate their standards are useless. The place of strength-the game console will advance with the development of the personal computer industry. Even if the hardware loses money, it must obtain the platform share, and then use the sales revenue of the game software to make up for it.

Taking the 16-bit second-generation Xiaobawang game console, it clearly followed this route and achieved great market success. In fact, after continuous optimization and persistence, the hardware of the second-generation Xiaobawang game console is no longer selling 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 has been methodical and confident in the process of launching the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles, and has been covered with mystery by the outside world.

It is almost certain that as the world’s first real 32-bit game console, the three-generation Cassidy game console will definitely sell at a loss during the initial sales stage, and only the richest man’s ea can handle such a luxurious product layout. .

But this ecosystem must be seized. From the network online and multimedia playback functions supported by the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles, it can be seen that its value is not just a simple game console, but an all-round home entertainment center.

This product was jointly developed by ea and Zheru, and adopted many mature technologies of the latter.

Different from the previous two generations of products, the hardware architecture of the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles uses more of the wisdom of 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 multimedia applications 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 microprocessor operations.

In the first half of the 1980s, the amazing mc68000 family of microprocessors can be said to kill all opponents in the market~www.wuxiaspot.com~ so powerful that they can become the computing core of workstation products.

The second-generation Xiaobawang game console with the special mc68000 version and the Xiaobawang arcade machine are the best in the video game industry.

But the current mc68000 is almost a bad street, and Motorola appears to be a little weak in the development of follow-up products, and is gradually being approached by Intel's intel80386. At the same time, it was distracted from the development of the risc microprocessor mc88000.

It has to be said that the strong performance and commercial success of risc at this stage has made itself an advantage in the debate about which is better between rsic and cisc, which confuses the academic and business circles, and many companies have to do it. Two-handed preparation, Motorola is like this.

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

Tang Huan, who has seen this through, chooses Motorola as the supplier of the third-generation Cassidy game console. Anyway, your own system is complete, so "self-reliance" is good.

Therefore, in addition to the core of the cpu, another heavyweight component, the graphics processor, is also made by its own. It not only supports true color, resolutions up to 640×480 and other necessary technical specifications for electronic games, but also hardware Decode and play vcd.

The operating system of the three-generation Xiaobawang game console is stored in eeprom and can be upgraded for firmware. It is also another core of the content of this philosophical developer conference.