The Goddess Shines on America

"Calm down, calm down, it's just a preliminary product, in fact, you can make it with more research!"

"Hey, drive slowly! Hey, it's a red light!"

Unexpectedly, the driver of the car was Mrs. Bosack and not Mr. It's just that when Alice sat in the back of the Buick driven by Rusanti, she had to hold the back of the front seat tightly with one hand, stare hard at the road ahead, and kept yelling all the way.

"You passed three cars in five seconds! Do you think you're playing Grand Theft Auto or Need for Speed!? Oh don't ask me what that is, EA is still in the womb! No, it looks like it 82 has been established... Oops!"

"My house is Vinton Avenue in Culver City! What are you driving toward the Santa Monica Freeway!? Hey, which direction are you turning... Hey! Is this a U-turn lane!?"

When Santi realized that he was going the wrong way, he made a 180-degree U-turn on the double yellow line without saying a word. The powerful tail flick was excellent, and it made Oscar, who was also in the back row, very happy, but for Alice, she could only complain.

Motion sickness? That's not true.

Miyoshi students obey traffic laws? That didn't work either.

Just because the Bosacks were so excited.

When Alice briefly described the principle of her "handmade" finished product, as well as the detailed experimental process, Santi couldn't help but yelled. She admitted frankly on the spot that just this remark from Alice had already answered several technical problems for her!

It's just that even on the way there, the couple was so excited that Alice couldn't help being excited and at the same time quite depressed.

Isn't it just to look at a router? As for being so excited? It's not Bill Gates looking at the windows-98 developed by others!

"...Uh, that seems to be the case."

Fortunately, it was just after noon at this time, and the traffic flow on the street had not yet reached its peak. After the silver-gray Buick drove many wrong roads on many main roads, it finally slowly drove into a typical middle-class community .

The houses here are like houses, each house has its own unique shape, and the tree-lined roads are full of towering street trees. As soon as the Buick drove in, he couldn't help slowing down when an old man walking his dog came from the opposite side.

"Can I not be excited!?"

Sandy tapped the steering wheel in the front row, her voice high-pitched: "You are only twelve years old, Alice, twelve years old! If that machine really works, let alone what changes it will bring to the computer world, You are a super genius! You can go to Stanford now!"

"It's the third building in front."

Alice didn't talk to her anymore, she had already sat softly against the backrest, Oscar did his part to act as a guide, and made the Buick stop in front of his yard.

"Mom? Is anyone home?"

As soon as Alice walked into the house, she heard a voice from the kitchen: "I brought two guests, Mom!?"

As soon as the words were finished, Sophie walked over from the kitchen with a stack of plates in her hand.

"Guest? What guest? Ah... how are you?"

Seeing the appearance of the hostess, Posak immediately stepped forward and said with a smile: "Hello, Ms. Wang, I am Leonardo Posak, a teacher in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, and this is my wife Santi."

Pointing to his wife, he said, "We met your kid at the cafe and Alice said she made a whole new internet-connected device. I'll ask again, is that true?"

Sophie looked at Alice from the left, Oscar from the right, and then at the Bosacks who were clearly suppressing their excitement, and immediately understood what was going on.

"Oh my god, what a coincidence, you... met by chance in the city?"

She looked at Alice and answered for the couple: "That's right, Alice is indeed working on an instrument. I don't understand much about computers, but she introduced it to me a long time ago. It is indeed A little guy that connects multiple computers!"

After getting an affirmative answer, the Bosacks were naturally even more excited. Seeing this, since they all entered the house, Alice immediately led them into her bedroom. Fortunately, although she was a young girl, she didn't have many personal belongings on the surface, so there was no need to shy away from it when Bosac walked in.

"Oh, I can see the difference at a glance."

As soon as she entered the room, Santi immediately looked at Alice's bedroom cheerfully, and said with a smile: "Such a big bookcase, and what's in it... The Wealth of Nations? The complete works of Sherlock Holmes? The Lord of the Rings trilogy? Wow, little genius Your hobbies are really different, do your classmates know it?"

"A few people know about it. Oscar, turn on the computer and fix 'Lisa' for me."

After saying a few words, as if by magic, Alice suddenly took out a glossy black object from the corner of the bookcase

Suddenly, apart from Oscar who was busy, the room was completely silent.

What appeared in front of the Bosacks was a dark metal case, about the same size as a briefcase, but the weight was not the same.

"First, let me introduce you to deconstruction."

The two adults were sitting on the bed in amazement, watching Alice sitting on a chair and showing her work.

"This is the power supply. This blue interface is connected to the external connector of the network cable, and then these independent network cables are plugged into this yellow interface to connect to the corresponding interface on the computer."

After briefly introducing the peripherals, Alice went on to say: "It should be noted that these sockets must not be inserted backwards, otherwise it will have no effect. Well, what's the problem?"

Bosack silently looked at the writing desk. With the help of Oscar, the IBM computer and Apple's "Lisa" were placed there side by side, and the machines were also turned on. The DOS operating system and Apple's unique graphical interface The difference is very different.

"Of course there are problems."

Although he said so, the surprise in Bosac's heart is no longer easy to explain.

Although he had already made some mental preparations, God, the girl in front of him was really only twelve years old!

How to connect various types of networks in the simplest, most efficient, and low-cost way. Just when the couple, a pair of authentic Stanford teachers, were still having a headache and didn't know how to do research, this little Chinese girl made the finished product?

Although the experiment has not yet been carried out, Bosac certainly does not think that it is just an empty shell. Even if today is April 1st, this joke is too low-level!

"If you want it to work, it needs to be driven by software. Have you written the driver software yet?"

"Of course, just like this computer needs DOS, my router-yes, I named it a router-needs an operating system. Of course, the work of perfecting the entire operating system is too complicated. At present, I just wrote a basic BIOS, and then just built a basic system platform."

Posak's eyes suddenly lit up: "Oh my God, what I want to say is BIOS, a dedicated operating system? This idea is really good and novel! But think about it, we should also make such a system , After all, each network has its own different standards, and it must be properly set up when connecting, and it is impossible without a dedicated operating system!"

What Bosack said was correct, but the truth was far more complicated than this, and Alice knew this very well.

Network connection is not just as simple as plugging in the network cable.

The most basic point, that is, the setting of the routing protocol, is already complicated enough.

Furthermore, computer software and hardware are produced separately by many manufacturers, so there is a compatibility problem here.

In other words, why can other people's products run on your platform?

Of course, this "why" itself is a matter of business cooperation, that is, a matter of authorization, but after it is implemented in technology, it needs an operating system as a medium for detailed programming.

That is to say, whether it is a computer or a router, the operating system manufacturer needs to publish the program interface to the public, which is the so-called open source. Only in this way can other major software and hardware manufacturers design corresponding products.

Throughout the history of later generations, the most typical and well-known representative of open source is Google's Android system. Correspondingly, the typical closed source is the Apple system, and of course, Linux is even more so.

The purely verbal introduction had already made the Bosacks very excited. After Alice talked briefly, she actually connected the lines. When she lightly opened a program setting interface, Bosak dragged a stool and sat beside her, forgetting how impolite it was to make noise!

The two adults gathered on both sides of the girl, watching her every operation step in detail with expressions of curiosity and surprise.

Oscar quietly stood in a corner, silently staring at his sister.

"Oscar?"

Just at this time, the door opened slowly, and Sophie walked in with the brewed black tea. Although she liked coffee more, with James as the first example, the amount of black tea at home was almost equal to the sum of the entire street .

"Oh, mother, I guess they don't have time to drink just yet."

Holding the saucer with a wry smile, Oscar winked at Sophie: "Three technical geeks, Alice has finally found the same kind!"

Sophie looked at the three people in front of the desk, and their voices kept wafting in her ears. She couldn't help shaking her head when she heard those English words and professional vocabulary that she didn't understand at all.

"Hehe, isn't it!"

I am working hard to collect manuscripts, so I am currently updating once a day, and I will start double updating in a few days.