Chapter 191: Dell Computers
In June, Guangdong has taken the lead in entering the middle of summer, and the people have changed into summer clothes. Men wore short-sleeved shorts and saved as much fabric as they could, and women wore beautiful dresses. However, the staff of the headquarters of Changsheng Investment Group are still wearing shirts and ties, and they are neatly dressed, because the headquarters building has central air conditioning, and they do not feel hot during working hours. With Shen Danqing as an example, the employees below did not dare to come to work in T-shirts and shorts.
The reason why Shen Danqing has been wearing shirts for many years is because his figure is too strong, his arms are as thick as ordinary people's thighs, in order not to make people amazed, Shen Danqing has always insisted on wearing loose clothes to cover up his strong figure. He never wore short-sleeved clothes or anything like that.
Time is like flowing water, and there is no going back. The two-month contract with Dell is nearing its end. The main chipsets on the computer, the Institute of Electronics has successfully developed all of them, including the most difficult 32-bit chips. The design of computer motherboards is now being intensified. Since it is a computer for Dell, everything can be used as a reference to Dell's previous computer technology interface standards, that is, in line with European and American system architecture and network technology standards. There is no need and no need to open a separate stove.
But the main processing is also a little different, or a little more advanced. They did it in one step and adopted the eight-core chip architecture. Listening to Shen Danqing's instructions, it mainly strengthened the uplink and downlink transmission rate. The main circuit was strengthened with monocrystalline copper wires. Such as: download, upload, video, audio, multi-threaded operation, cache, memory, etc. Overall, a huge technological advance. Of course, Changsheng Investment Group has applied for international technology patents for all the technologies used, and it is impossible for Shen Danqing to let foreign companies drill this loophole.
In addition, from the very beginning, the main processor has adopted a modular design, which is convenient for future technology upgrades, and some useless functional modules are eliminated according to different use environments. For example, in the future, mobile processors will have to reduce some power-consuming functions, so that the mobile chip will be the same underlying architecture as the current desktop general chip, and it will be able to facilitate data exchange in the future. This is the technical advantage of the same company to develop different chips.
Designing the motherboard chip can be said to be a copy of Dell's previous motherboard design, but with some obvious bugs corrected. There are also some improvements to the motherboard chips of Changsheng Investment Group. So the design process is relatively fast. It only took a week to design the motherboard.
Now the ugly daughter-in-law is finally going to see her in-laws. The Electronics Research Institute began to design the first computer of its own technology based on computer accessories. Although the name of the computer is Dell, it has nothing to do with Dell, basically every electronic component and accessories on the computer is owned by Changsheng Investment Group. This is already an assembly job, which is still difficult for individuals, but for a technical team of more than 20,000 people, it is as easy as playing home.
When the first computer was assembled on the production assembly line, Hong Tao was already so excited that his brain was congested. Strictly speaking, this is the first computer in China. Other brands such as Great Wall, Lenovo, Peking University Founder, and Shenzhou are just assemblers, and almost all major computer components and important electronic components are imported.
This new computer console is no different from today's compatible computers, because it is a copy of Dell's computer console! It's just that the shape is more beautiful and sci-fi, and the workmanship is also exquisite. The computer keyboard has not changed, but it uses better materials, better texture, and better key feel. The computer mouse has made a little technical upgrade, upgrading the mechanical mouse to an optical mouse. The biggest change is the display. The ugly CRT display was replaced with an AMOLED display from Changsheng Investment Group, which is super thin, only 1.5 cm thick. Compared to the original monitor with a big butt behind it, it's a difference between heaven and earth.
In order to save money, Dell purchased a 21-inch screen, but it has been much more than the previous mainstream 17-inch screen.
Plug it in. Hong Tao pressed the disc out of the warehouse button with a trembling hand. I put in a genuine system CD produced by Microsoft. The CD drive was requested by Dell. So they also bought this CD. It is the only major computer accessory that does not belong to Changsheng Investment Group. Because Shen Danqing knew that the computer's CD player would become a chicken rib in the future, and its function would be replaced by a mobile USB flash drive. Therefore, Changsheng Investment Group did not develop this technology that was destined to be eliminated. The disc player was a Sony brand and was the most advanced disc player at the time.
I saw a melodious electronic synthesis sound, and only a few minutes later, Microsoft's Indos system appeared on the display. The pixels are coarse and noisy, because Microsoft's graphics display standard only supports this pixel level.
After just over a minute of boot and reboot, after the operating system hardware self-check, my computer, recycle bin and other necessary software and some Microsoft bundled application software came out of the computer desktop.
Hong Tao casually clicked on a Microsoft company-bundled application software IE browser, and found that the operation was very smooth, without a little lag. Of course, this is normal, because there is no internet connection yet, it is just the speed of the computer's internal operation.
Because of the relatively high manufacturing process, Changsheng Investment Group has much more memory and cache than the current memory. That's about 10 times the memory of other companies, reaching 300 megabytes. This is the Electronics Research Institute deliberately made small, so it doesn't seem so rebellious in comparison. The amount of storage is large, especially the cache is large, and the software runs more smoothly. The main thing that Hong Tao checks is to see if there are any obvious bugs.
In addition, there is another component in the main chassis that is different from today's computers: high-speed hard drives. Mechanical hard disk is a patented technology of IBM and cannot be imitated by Changsheng Investment Group. Therefore, the high-speed hard disk with integrated memory particles is simply used, and the memory is very small, only 2G. BM's mechanical hard disk has only 500M capacity, not to mention the hard disk of other companies.
Both the memory and the capacity of the hard disk are the result of the deliberate limitations of the Institute of Electronics. It's not just to hide it, but it's really not that necessary. Because the software at that time was very streamlined, it was enough to have such a large amount of memory.
At that time, due to the limitations of electronic hardware, there was also the most important network transmission rate limit. At that time, the software was as simple as possible and did not support high-pixel graphics.
Taking Microsoft as an example, the first-generation graphics operating system indos95 and the indos98 two years later are very streamlined, do not support high-pixel graphics display, and occupy large memory software, such as: some computer game software that occupies a large capacity. Therefore, ordinary people's computers can run, even some old computers. And just like that, Microsoft quickly dominated the personal operating system market.
At that time, computers were very expensive, so the replacement of computers was not as fast as now, and many people's computers were old, so software companies tried to minimize the waste of memory, the purpose was to occupy more computer desktops.
After trying a few computers in a row, he didn't find any obvious problems, so Hong Tao went to report the good news to the boss. As soon as the phone was connected, Shen Danqing's voice of ecstasy came from Shen Danqing's microphone: "Boss, the computer that our company has made for Dell has made a prototype, please come and have a look!"
"Oh, yes? Okay! I'll come right over. Shen Danqing was also very happy to hear this good news. He immediately hung up the phone, got up and walked outside.
When he arrived outside, Shen Danqing rushed to Secretary Liu, who saw him coming out, and said, "Secretary Liu, go to the foundry with me." After speaking, he didn't wait for Secretary Liu to reply, raised his feet and left.
He was in a hurry and didn't want to waste a minute. Secretary Liu saw that the boss left after speaking, so he hurriedly followed, and did not go to the secretary's office to ask someone to replace him.
In the newly built large-scale foundry of Changsheng Investment Group, in the workshop of the finished product assembly line, Hong Tao pointed to several Dell computers that had just been assembled and said to Shen Danqing: "Boss, please look, this is the computer we produce for Dell." ”
Shen Danqing did not reply, but first carefully observed the appearance of the computer, and found that it was no different from the LCD computer he had seen in later generations. It's just that the appearance is more beautiful and the workmanship is more exquisite. In particular, the AMOLED screen display is no different from the appearance of the LCD screen.
"Turn it on and try it. Shen Danqing instructed Hong Tao.
Hong Tao didn't speak, he pressed the power start button as he said. The display lights up in response to the sound, showing the brand logo of Dell, which is very clear and vivid. Then the screen goes black again, and then the iconic indos95 window screen is displayed, and the computer goes into a hardware self-test. I saw rows of English letters and characters moving up quickly, this is a computer for Dell, and all the operating environment of the computer is of course English. It took another minute or so for the computer to complete its self-test. At this time, in the upper left corner of the display, several programs appeared in Liao Liao. Hong Tao clicked on the IE browser that comes with the operating system, almost all of them are English letters and simple line-shaped frames, and it is rare to see colorful national shapes, and there are only some brand logos. In Shen Danqing's opinion, it is really lo, but he also knows that the computer desktop display for more than nine years is like this, and all the software is to minimize the graphic display. This is because there was no special graphics coprocessor at that time, and the color image display relied on the operation of the main chip, so the color image at that time consumed extremely computing resources, so everyone tried to minimize the color graphics. That's why it's so shabby on the screen now. So strictly speaking, Changsheng Investment Group's color image coprocessor is the world's first professional graphics coprocessor. Shen Danqing inadvertently created history again, which is a situation that most reborn people often encounter. The difference is that some are deliberate, while some are unintentional, and Shen Danqing belongs to the latter.
To be continued......
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