"Calm down, calm down, that's just a prototype, in fact, you can make it with a little more research!"

"Hey, drive slower! Hey, it's red!"

Unexpectedly, the driver of the car was Mrs. Posack and not Mr. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info It's just that as soon as Alice sat in the back seat of the Buick driven by Santy, she had to quickly pull the back of the front seat with one hand, staring hard at the road in front of her, and kept yelling all the way.

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

"My house is Vinton Avenue in Culver City! What are you driving towards the Santa Monica Highway!? Hey, which direction are you turning...... Hey, is this the U-turn line!?"

When Santi realized that she was on the opposite path, she didn't say a word, and made a 180-degree U-turn on the double yellow line. The strong tail flick is so good that Oscar, who is also in the back row, is addicted, but for Alice, she can only complain.

Motion sickness? Not really.

Three good students obey traffic laws? That's not either.

It's just that the Bossaks are so excited.

When Alice briefly explained the principle of her "handmade" finished product and the detailed experimental process, Santi couldn't help but scream. She admitted on the spot that just Alice's remarks 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 but be excited, and at the same time quite depressed.

Isn't it just to see a router? As for being so excited? It's not Bill Gates looking at the Windows-98 that someone else has developed!

“…… Well, it seems to be true. ”

Fortunately, at this time, just after noon, the traffic on the street has not yet reached its peak, when the silver-gray Buick sedan finally slowly drove into a typical middle-class neighborhood after galloping through many unjust roads on many main roads.

Each house has its own unique shape, and the boulevard is filled with towering street trees. As soon as the Buick car drove in, he couldn't help but slow down when an old man walking his dog came from the opposite side.

"Can I not get excited!?"

Santi banged on the steering wheel in the front row and said in a high-pitched voice: "You're only twelve, Alice, twelve! If that machine really works, let alone what kind of changes it can bring to the computer world, you're a super genius! You can go to Stanford right now!"

"It's the third building in front. ”

Alice didn't say anything more, she was already sitting softly against the backrest, and Oscar was the guide, so the Buick stopped in front of her yard.

"Mom, is anyone home?"

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

As soon as she finished speaking, Sophie walked over from the kitchen, still holding a stack of plates.

"Guest, what guest? Ah...... How are you?"

Seeing the hostess appear, Bosak immediately stepped forward and smiled: "Hello, Ms. Wang, I am a teacher in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, Leonardo Bossak, and this is my wife Santi. ”

Pointing to his wife, he said, "We met your child at the café, Alice said, and she made a brand new internet-connected device. With all due respect, is this true?"

Sophie looked at Alice on the left, Oscar on the right, and then at the Bossaks, who were obviously holding back their excitement, and immediately understood what was going on.

"Oh my God, that's a coincidence, you ...... Ran into it by chance in the city?"

She looked at Alice and replied to the couple, "Yes, Alice is indeed working on a device, I don't know much about computers, but she has already introduced it to me, it is indeed a kind of little guy who connects multiple computers!"

After receiving an affirmative answer, the Posacks were naturally even more excited. Seeing this, since they were all in the house, Alice immediately led them into her bedroom. Fortunately, although she is a young girl, she does not have many personal belongings on the surface, so there is no need to shy away from Bossak when he walks in.

"Oh, I could see the difference at a glance. ”

As soon as she entered the house, Santi immediately looked at Alice's bedroom happily and said with a smile: "Such a big bookcase, and what is in it is ...... The Wealth of Nations, The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Wow, the hobby of a little genius is really different, do your classmates know it?"

"Yes, there are a few people who know. Oscar, turn on the computer and help me get Lisa right. ”

After a brief remark, as if by magic, Alice suddenly took out an item with a black sheen from the corner of the bookcase

Suddenly, except for Oscar, who began to be busy, the room was silent,

In front of the Posacks was a swarthy metal shell, about the size of a briefcase, but not the same weight.

"First of all, I would like to introduce you to deconstruction. ”

The two adults were sitting on the bed with a look of amazement, watching Alice sit in a chair and display her work.

"This is the power supply, this blue connector and 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 a brief introduction to the peripherals, Alice continued: "It should be noted that these sockets must not be plugged in backwards, otherwise they will have no effect. Well, what's the problem?"

Posack looked silently at the desk, where the IBM computer was placed side by side with Apple's Lisa and Apple's Lisa with Oscar's help, and the machines were all turned on, the DOS operating system was very different from Apple's unique graphical interface.

"Of course there is. ”

Although he said this, the surprise in Bosack's heart was not easy to explain.

Although he was already a little mentally prepared, God, the girl in front of him was really only twelve years old!

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

Although the experiment has not yet been conducted, Bossak certainly doesn't think it's just an empty shell, and even if it's April 1st, this joke is too substandard!

"If you want it to work, you need to be driven by software, have you written driver software?"

"Of course, just as this computer needs DOS, my router — yes, I named it a router — also needs an operating system. Of course, the work of perfecting the entire operating system is too complicated, so I've just written a basic BIOS and just built a basic system platform. ”

Bossak's eyes lit up suddenly: "Oh my God, what I want to say is just BIOS, an exclusive operating system? This idea is really good and novel! But think about it, you should also make such a system, after all, each network has its different standard, and you definitely need to set it up well when connecting, and you can't do it without an exclusive operating system!"

Bossak is right, but the truth is far more complicated than that, and Alice is well aware of this.

Connecting to the network is not as simple as plugging in the network cable.

The most basic point, the setting of the routing protocol, is complex enough.

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

In other words, how can someone else's product work on your platform?

Of course, this "why" itself is a matter of commercial cooperation, that is, a matter of licensing, but after it is implemented in technology, it is necessary to have an operating system as the 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, and only in this way can other major software and hardware manufacturers design corresponding products.

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

The mere verbal introduction had already excited the Bossaks, and Alice, after a brief talk, actually connected the wires. As she opened a program with a light movement, Bossak dragged a stool to sit next to her, forgetting how rude it was to make noise!

The two adults gathered on either side of the girl, with expressions of curiosity and surprise, observing her every step of operation in detail.

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

"Oscar?"

At this moment, the door slowly opened, and Sophie walked in with the brewed black tea, although she liked coffee more, but with James as the first example, the amount of black tea in the house was almost equal to the whole street combined.

"Oh, Mom, I don't think they have time to drink for a while. ”

With a wry smile and a saucer, Oscar squeezed his eyes at Sophie: "Three technical geeks, Alice can be regarded as having found the same kind!"

Sophie looked at the three people at the desk, and their words kept drifting in her ears. Listening to those English words and technical vocabulary that were completely unknown, she couldn't help but shake her head.

"Hehe, isn't it!"