Chapter 118: A multi-pronged approach
In late January, after a long and uninterrupted test, the test report of the Pangu system came out, which was perfect.
Engineers tested thousands of computer configurations, as well as hundreds of thousands of applications, to determine that the Pangu system was able to adapt to the mainstream configurations and software on the market.
Before the Pangu ecosystem dominated by the "Xia" editing language was established, it was the most difficult moment for the Pangu system.
After all, the language of PC program development is C, C#, C++, Python, etc., different languages have different runtimes, and these runtimes must be kept in order to read the machine code written in these cumbersome languages.
To a certain extent, doing so would bloated the Pangea system.
But the meal has to be eaten in one bite, Xiao Ming is not in a hurry.
Just as the IOS application is written in "Objective-C", the future Pangu application will be written in "Xia" as much as possible.
In fact, all languages are just a means of expression, in the era of binary computers, in the era of transistor computers, all computer languages have to return to binary machine code, which is the computer itself.
Lin Li put the thick test report in front of Xiao Ming, and said with some excitement: "The test has been completed, and all the evidence shows that the Pangu operating system performs better than the WIN system and IOS! ”
In the test of Xiaochu's voice assistant, its performance exceeded the imagination of the engineers.
Xiaochu is not only a simple human-machine exchange assistant, but also stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence with the support of a neural network database and a huge language library.
Lin Li pointed the computer at Xiao Ming, and then opened a presentation similar to a PPT.
Lin Li said: "I put the materials needed for the manuscript in the designated folder, and used the dialog box to tell Xiao Chu that I want to make the special effects and plans of the presentation this time, and guess what?"
Lin Li showed the presentation to Xiao Ming, whether it was the template, layout or special effects of the manuscript, they all met Lin Li's requirements, and even the general presentation of the teaching department.
Lin Li said: "All this was made by Xiao Chu according to the requirements! It is indeed a computer assistant! As a computer engineer, I never think that being able to make PPT and presentations is a skill, and the core of PPT lies in the content, not the way of display! Xiao Chu can bring great help to users, so that users can be freed from cumbersome typesetting, and focus on the core of content!"
"And this!" Lin Li was a little excited, and said: "I gave Xiao Chu the topic of the paper that I needed, and she helped me collect the paper information I needed and sort it out in just fifteen minutes! This is the real computer assistant!"
When applying the language library and neural network thinking of Yigou to the Pangu system, Xiao Ming knew that Xiao Chu would have such a highlight moment.
Xiao Ming said: "I said that Xiao Chu can also help you hang up and play games, eat chicken, LOL, help you sort out the format of documents, and help you collect and analyze information? So as long as the Pangu system occupies the market, it will not only affect the share of the system, but also change the entire Internet ecology!"
Lin Li said: "The Pangu system is easier to use and more optimized than the WIN system and IOS on the market, but given that the users of the WIN and IOS system have reached billions, it is difficult for Pangu to fight its way out of it." But now that I have Xiaochu, I think Pangu must have a place in the market!"
The Pangu system needs to be fully tested in the market and recognized by users before it can be officially announced.
In addition, relying on the Pangu system, the operation used on the mobile phone also needs to speed up the development.
In order to distinguish between the two, the development team called the operating system on the PC side Pangu OS (Pangu OS), and the operating system on the mobile side as Tiangong OS (Tiangong OS), which are actually two babies born to the same mother.
The Pangu system originally weakened the desktop and strengthened the human-machine exchange and mutual assistance, so the Tiangong OS development on the mobile phone side was much simpler, and the project is nearing completion.
Xiao Ming said to Lin Li: "You continue to be responsible for the development of the mobile phone system, and there is no room for mistakes, and I will do the user testing of the Pangu system." ”
Lin Li's team is puffing up, and they are eager to launch the Pangu operating system as soon as possible, so that people all over the world can let Google see that Xia Guoren is also capable of making their own operating system.
But Lin Li also knows that the most important thing now is to calm down. Before making a splash, make sure to make your product as perfect as possible.
After saying goodbye to Xiao Ming, Lin Li plunged into the laboratory again.
Xiao Ming used the time before and after the Spring Festival to conduct user tests on the Pangu system.
Users are only the best teachers, and sometimes no matter how good they are in the laboratory, they are equal to 0 if they are not recognized by users in the market.
And the best place to test the system is an Internet café or Internet café.
Ten years ago, computers began to enter thousands of homes. But this trend has not made Internet cafes such a place with online and physical social interaction extinct.
From Warcraft to DOTA to LOL to the current chicken, Internet cafes, as an industry that has evolved from Internet cafes, still play an indispensable role in major cities.
Xiao Ming spent more than 3 million yuan to sublease 120 mainstream Internet cafes in the university town, in addition to computers, there are two months' rent, a number of various network administrators and waiters, and a number of bars, booths, coffee, and milk tea raw materials.
"Brother, are you sure you want to sublet?" Boss Zhou of the Internet café couldn't bear to pit Xiao Ming, and said: "It's really not profitable to do this business, there are seven or eight Internet cafes before and after! The competition is big, don't look at the utilization rate of the machine here is more than 60%, it's still a loss! A new game comes out, our machine is going to be updated, and now the labor cost is high, and the customer is pursuing low prices, which is really not easy to do." ”
"It's okay, I'm just playing. Xiao Ming said: "It's rare to be as honest as you in business." ”
Boss Zhou shook his head and said: "I just really can't bear to let you suffer, in fact, it's good to make a small hot pot restaurant after this lot is renovated, and there are many students and the street." ”
"I'll buy and you sell, it's as simple as that!" Xiao Ming was quite refreshing, "I'll transfer the money as soon as the contract is signed." ”
Xiao Ming bought an Internet café not to make money, but to test, and what he needed was user traffic rather than profit.
No matter how honest a person is, he won't be able to get along with money, Boss Zhou agreed.
As the first step in the transformation of Internet cafes, the WIN system in the diskless server of the Internet café was reinstalled as the Pangu system, and the Pangu system was slightly optimized to make it suitable for more than 100 diskless computers.
The second step is to install the module of the pseudo WIN system in the Pangu operating system of the Internet café server, and hide the man-machine exchange assistant Xiaochu.
In this way, the software transformation of the Internet café was completed and it was ready for business.
All computer desktops look no different from the past, and are essentially Pangu systems in the skin of a win.
Xiao Ming is ready to start business, and in view of the small number of customers during the winter vacation, he has launched a rather tempting plan.