Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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The main responsibility of the World Wide Web Consortium is to maintain the WWW standard, and the task of helping it expand its territory on the Internet is handed over to another standardization organization, the Internet Society, or ISOC for short.

Perhaps the most well-known existence of organizations related to standardization is the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO.

This almost all-encompassing non-government organization, the participants include the national standards bodies and major companies of various member countries, with a little official meaning, like China and Baodao, there is a conflict of membership due to politics. The phenomenon.

In fact, ISO is powerful, but there are still other standardization organizations with the same high weight in the world.

For example, under the management of the International Telecommunication Union, the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, or CCITT, specializes in formulating international standards related to telecommunications.

For another example, Tang Huan has mixed into the highest membership level fellow-Institute_of_Electrical_andElectronics_Engineers-the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers or IEEE.

Not surprisingly, these standardization organizations are involved in standards in the IT field.

For example, ISO is trying to define the standard framework of Open_System_ for the Internet worldwide, which is the reference model of open system interconnection communication, namely OSI; CCITT is for modems to perform full-duplex communication on fixed lines, and V.32 is introduced; IEEE802 for local area network and so on.

Around the standard, all kinds of disputes naturally arise. Sometimes, these standardization organizations have to face and recognize some de facto standards.

Take a recent example, the MPEG standard in VCD was adopted by CCITT, and the Fangyuan personal computer standard was adopted by IEEE. The reason is nothing more than that in the face of fait accompli, these standardization organizations have to compromise.

As for ISO, there are also times when the head is bowed-the OSI model has basically been determined and lost to TCP/IP.

The main competitor of the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Society is the Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF.

Compared with the bureaucracy of the bloated ISO and CCITT, the IETF, which was established in early 1986, has a humble attitude and quick response, and thus is favored by the computer media.

However, Tang Huan is not worried that the fledgling World Wide Web Association and the Internet Association will not be able to resist the triumphant Internet Engineering Task Force. Guyin has recently attracted a large number of professionals who are trying to leave a strong mark in the history of the Internet. After the crowd is too busy, work efficiency will soon be "comparable" with the ISO and CCITT that it disdains, and thus cannot keep up with the rapid development of the Internet.

In the final analysis, this kind of competition relies on strength and wrangling, and Tang Huan has already found an agent, that is, Tim Berners-Lee, who left CERN not long ago.

At this stage, CERN has developed into the largest Internet node in Europe. This has a lot to do with Tang Huan’s attention to the environment here and the cooperation on a number of network projects.

Tim Berners-Lee, as the representative of CERN in the WWW cooperation project, naturally understands the boundless prospects best, so he left CERN again to seek a broader career development space.

I have to say that Tim Berners-Lee’s performance is very representative-among the elites attracted by the Internet, in addition to wealth seekers, there are also those who seek to stay in history. How about this kind of standardization organization is a test of the skill of wrangling-everyone has their own views on how to innovate and welcome the future, and quarreling, on the contrary, it is difficult to make a difference.

Tang Huan has taken a fancy to Tim Berners-Lee’s book business-you go to debate with them, I will support you later, anyway, the actions of these standardization organizations can’t keep up with the rapid changes in the development of the Internet. The pit is then filled with fait accompli.

Of course, the richest man can’t say that he is such a marketable person, and he has to use noble packaging to encourage him: “The World Wide Web, which is completely free and can be easily used by everyone in the world, is definitely a major innovation in the development of human civilization. Yes! But what can’t be ignored is that there are also some people who come purely for the business opportunities contained in it. While we ensure the quality of WWW, we must also prevent the wave of commercialization from taking it off the right track-I hope no matter how it develops and changes , The World Wide Web can maintain the original intention of sharing scientific and technological civilization."

The smug Tim Berners-Lee did not need others to rush to come up with the solution Tang Huan wanted, "I will definitely work to improve and maintain the leadership of the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Association to ensure that the World Wide Web is correct. Direction of development."

Tang Huan nodded slightly with satisfaction, and quietly reminded: "After the World Wide Web has the'free' feature that we give, the'free_free' feature will inevitably be popular, but this thing is often affected by certain businesses. The company uses it as a cover. Therefore, in the process of maintaining'leadership', we must have some skills to bring the largest range of participants together for debate."

"This first requires Tang to exert his influence in the industry and let more companies adopt the WWW standard." Tim Berners-Li smiled.

"It's true." Tang Huan replied with deep conviction: "Based on the popular Turbo_Pascal, Zheru will soon launch a rapid application development tool called Delphi, which uses PASCAL with object-oriented features. Programming language to fully support the development of WWW applications, I believe developers will flock to it."

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While providing technical solutions for the Internet and stimulating user needs, Tang Huan also rushes to call for more proprietary networks to be open to the public.

At this level of hardware construction, Pacific Telecom, which Tang Huan can influence, has always been active, but its business scope is limited to the west coast of the United States, which makes him focus on MCI, which is constantly moving closer to himself.

The chaos of junk bonds flying in the U.S. financial market has finally reached the point where you have to pierce the abscess. The once brilliant financing kings have been sued in court, but MCI has therefore lost a traditional source of funds. So he felt stretched and had to ask for help again.

In addition, the richest man has another worry, that is, his Datang Mobile company, although the user scale is growing, but it is also suffering from phone theft.

This is determined by the congenital defects of the existing technology and can only be completely solved by upgrading. However, the US economy is now in a downward cycle. The consumption power of such high-end communication products has made think tanks and management deeply suspicious.

However, before dealing with these matters, Tang Huan first went to Los Angeles to attend the annual Oscars ceremony. In addition to fulfilling the obligation of the Hollywood tycoon, he also thanked him for his so-called righteous speaking in the "downfall of the Tang" storm.

Going to Los Angeles couldn't be easier. Just get on a small business jet from the San Francisco Bay Area and browse a few newspapers. But Tang Huan did not intend to take such a conventional way of travel this time, so he approached Jerry Brown, chairman of the California High Speed ​​Rail Board, and asked: "I want to go to Los Angeles to attend the Oscars. Can the California High Speed ​​Rail send me there?"

"Open a special train for you, of course, there is no problem, it can be regarded as a promotion for the California high-speed rail." Jerry Brown happily agreed.

After nearly three and a half years, the California high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles has finally completed construction and is currently busy with various commissions before commercial operations.

Knowing how difficult it is to replicate the construction speed of a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail with a similar scale in the original time and space in the United States, Tang Huan sincerely praised Jerry Brown for the leadership of the former governor of California.

Recently, Jerry Brown, who has been so excited that he can't sleep, sometimes flattered: "It is Tang's courage and generous investment that made this construction miracle; and looking back, it has greatly avoided the past few years. Obvious variables caused by inflation."

After finishing bragging about each other, Tang Huan asked curiously: "What have you done, your eyes are bloodshot?"

"Can I not be busy?" Jerry Brown said with a wry smile: "Now California politics has gradually formed a consensus that it is hoped that the California high-speed rail can be put into formal operation before the arrival of the independence day."

"Is it for the mid-term elections again?" Tang Huan could only shook his head speechlessly for this kind of face-saving project deliberately created for political purposes. After all, the California state government and the federal government have allocated funds for the California high-speed rail project. It is reasonable for politicians to reach out within a reasonable range.

"California High Speed ​​Rail is preparing to test the operation of the California High Speed ​​Rail around Memorial Day, and then start its formal operation before Independence Day, just in time for the first week of July, when Americans travel most frequently in the year." Jie Ray Brown said confidently: "So, this time you want to take the California high-speed rail to Los Angeles. It's just the right time. Originally, the locomotive is running on the track every day."

Speaking of this, Jerry Brown did not forget to suggest: "Best, you can let the wind out so that you can make headlines for the California High Speed ​​Rail and make a publicity across the United States."

Tang Huan raised his eyebrows, "Are you not afraid of being overwhelmed by the attention of the public and something went wrong?"

"I regard the California high-speed rail as my own eyeball, and I am in control of every single bit, so please relax." Jerry Brown promised.

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The richest man met this requirement and immediately called out his friends: Who wants to try something with me and sit on the California high-speed rail to attend the Oscar ceremony.

Almost in a blink of an eye, 15 places were full-Michael Moritz, editor-in-chief of the San Francisco branch of Time, Spielberg and George Lucas in Hollywood, and Jerry, president of AMD in Silicon Valley People in various fields such as Sanders have become guests of small parties in the carriages.

Since Intel blatantly tore up the agreement and withdrew the authorization of the second supplier of Intel 80386 and subsequent microprocessors, AMD has been in the same situation and accused each other of infringement lawsuits for several years, until now there is no result.

These companies, represented by AMD, that have received loose authorization from Intel during the period when Intel did not put the treasure on the microprocessor are not at all polite, that is, one year later than Intel, they launched the same grade of compatible products, and they also The x86 form of naming makes it difficult for consumers to distinguish between true and false. Intel is even more concerned, vowing that the next generation of microprocessor products will definitely not be called Intel80586, unless the digital format trademark can be registered, but it is obviously impossible.

Jerry Saunders, who has always longed for the star life in Hollywood and bought a mansion in Beverly Hills ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, likes this occasion to mingle with Hollywood celebrities, but he hasn't forgotten his old age. Our bank mentioned the current situation of competition in the field of microprocessors, and it is inevitable to complain about Intel's unkindness.

Tang Huan frowned slightly and said, “It’s not because I have a 20% investment in Intel’s shares, I stand on its stand, but AMD is no longer a nameless person today. The global semiconductor factory There is a first name and a surname on the sales revenue rankings, and you must always own products that belong to your own intellectual property system."

Jerry Sanders scratched his head. "The current development direction of microprocessors makes people doubtful. RISC is in the limelight. It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of the traditional CISC is uncertain."

Tang Huan was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly pointed out: "Now that the entertainment functions of personal computers are more and more popular in the market, I think AMD’s microprocessors can work harder in the support of multimedia and video games. The products are distinguished in characteristics."

"I'll do an evaluation after I go back." Jerry Sanders replied with an instruction, and then solemnly broke the news: "When I went to IBM, I accidentally saw their secretly developed RISC microprocessor. And the server, although the specific name and model are still unknown, the score data of the test software is quite amazing." (To be continued.)