The office of Zheru's Baodao subsidiary is next to Jian Mingren and Wang Xueling's popular computer, and a small number of employees are cross-posted.

According to Tang Huan's concept, Fangyuan Computer's operation in Baodao follows a localization strategy, which is basically handed over to Popular Computer, which can avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles, and the business scope of Zheru's subsidiary will be more comprehensive.

Tang Huan inspected it and was quite satisfied, but the focus of the popular computer was now completely on the Fangyuan computer, and he ignored the Xiaobawang game console, which made him a little unhappy.

However, it is no wonder that the large-scale listing of Fangyuan computers is destined to promote the progress of social informatization, and in the special situation of Treasure Island, it will just win the favor of some people, so as to gain fame and fortune, and the motivation will naturally be more sufficient.

Zheru USA has produced some prototypes, most of which have been shipped to Baodao by plane and displayed to customers in the office of Volkswagen Computer, and the factory in Hsinchu Science and Technology Park is still assembling and debugging equipment.

Now a group of people are visiting, and they are accompanied by Jian Mingren himself.

"Mr. Tang, that is Mr. Zhu Bangfu, the inventor of the Cangjie input method." Shi Chongtang introduced softly.

Tang Huan sighed unexpectedly, but he did not expect to meet this cow man who was praised as the "father of Chinese computers" by the Chinese people in Baodao and Xiangjiang in the history of Chinese computer development.

Zhu Bangfu was born in 1937, and his father was an influential figure in military and political circles.

When he was a child, Zhu Bangfu moved to and from place due to the war, and finally settled on Treasure Island at the age of middle school admission, and then went to Brazil to develop, and also stayed in the United States for a period of time. During this period, his mother and father died one after another.

When Zhu Bangfu was working at the Brazilian Cultural Publishing House, he witnessed how backward Chinese printing technology was compared with English in the publishing process of a book, so he switched to the improvement of Chinese printing technology.

In 1973, Zhu Bangfu returned to Baodao, and in the following years of hard life, he developed Chinese search methods and improved Chinese printing technology according to his concept, taking Chinese typewriters as his practical goals.

Later, with the assistance of Ms. Shen Honglian, Zhu Bangfu invented the Chinese form-meaning checker method that uses 52 letters as search keys at the end of 1976, namely the "Cangjie input method". Zhu Bangfu, who didn't know how to use computers, began to get in touch with computer programming languages at this time.

At present, with the help of friends, Zhu Bangfu has established a computer company to develop Chinese terminals.

Since microcomputers are not yet popular and practical, Zhu Bangfu has aroused a lot of negative criticism in society.

The business community is not optimistic about the Chinese computer market and is unwilling to invest; Scientists in academia advocate the elimination of Chinese as soon as possible.

Zhu Bangfu endured all the ridicule. His situation can be described as isolated.

But now, Fangyuan computer has been born, the real function is in front of you, who dares to question the computer processing of Chinese information, that is, want to be pumped face, and Zhu Bangfu, who is still in the stage of technical exploration, has found a lighthouse to guide the direction.

"Mr. Tang, I have admired your name for a long time, and I am extremely fortunate."

After Zhu Bangfu saw Tang Huan, he didn't need to be introduced by others, so he took the initiative to greet him, "The Fangyuan computer you invented is a great innovation." ”

"Mr. Zhu has won the award, and he is really ashamed." Tang Huan immediately greeted him warmly.

According to the original historical development, in 1980, Zhu Bangfu, with the technical support of Shi Zhenrong, jointly developed a Chinese computer with "Chinese operating system, Chinese programming language, and Chinese suite software" - Tianlong Chinese computer, priced at NT$750,000. But obviously, a $20,000 personal computer is unlikely to win the market.

The following year, Zhu Bangfu launched a Chinese terminal, and later, he established Zero One Computer Company to provide low-cost computer Chinese services for manufacturers.

In order to make Chinese computers more popular and let the Chinese people study together, Zhu Bangfu announced that he would give up the patent right of the Cangjie input method, announced that he was willing to disclose all the technology, and sold the shares of Zero One Company at a price of NT$10 million.

The relevant parties of Baodao agreed with this proposal and entrusted the technical personnel of Wang An, Acer and Shentong to go to Zero One Company for detailed identification, and Zhu Bangfu gave a public explanation. The proposal was finally approved, and the final outcome of the acquisition was planned to be determined in 1983.

However, during this period, disputes broke out between the 13,000-character Big5 code formulated by the relevant parties on the treasure island and Zhu Bangfu's Chinese coding system that can accommodate more than 50,000 words.

In addition, some people reported that Zhu Bangfu's system was also promoted to the mainland, so Zhu Bangfu left Baodao in April 1983, took refuge in the United States, and transferred all the ownership of Zero One Company to employees.

Since then, Zhu Bangfu has been getting farther and farther away from his ideal of computer processing of Chinese information.

But in any case, Zhu Bangfu can be regarded as a legend.

Looking at Zhu Bangfu, who was in his early forties and in high spirits, Tang Huan thought of his gains and losses in the Chinese information computer processing business, and couldn't help but feel sorry and sigh for it.

In order for a computer to process all kinds of information in binary, it must use coding technology to identify various basic components.

In this regard, Western languages like English, which only have 26 basic letters and can be encoded with only a 128-bit ASCII table, have a natural advantage, while Chinese is much more troublesome.

From the perspective of logical structure, although Chinese characters can be divided into different radicals, radicals and other basic components of the text, there are too many, far more than 26, and these basic components also have changes in position, orientation and orientation when composing Chinese characters.

Therefore, it is difficult to classify and process Chinese information based on text construction.

Some radical technologists have even used this to advocate the elimination of Chinese characters. For Huaxia, who invented papermaking and printing, this phenomenon is a little sad.

On the road to overcoming these difficulties, many famous Chinese have emerged, such as Zhu Bangfu, Ni Guangnan, Wang Xuan, Wang Yongmin, and so on.

As a reborn, Tang Huan naturally wanted to shorten this process so that the Chinese would have more time to focus on other aspects of technology, such as operating systems and networks.

First of all, Tang Huan has planned a set of encoding schemes including simplified Chinese characters and traditional fonts - Tang Code, which directly covers the content of GB-2312 and Big5 in the original time and space.

With the strong popularity of Fangyuan computers, Tang code will inevitably become the industry standard, until the official standard.

Secondly, in terms of input method, Tang Huan chose a simple and easy-to-use pinyin input method.

Basic education here in Treasure Island is taught by phonetic symbols, traditional Chinese characters are phonetic input methods, and simplified Chinese characters are Chinese pinyin input methods.

Of course, the workload of the whole project is very large, Tang Huan can't complete it by himself, and there is no need for that, he only planned a general framework, realized the pioneering and core module functions, and then arranged Jian Mingren to do the work on traditional characters, as for the work on simplified characters, Tang Huan is looking for someone else to promote, I believe that my aunt will recommend suitable candidates for herself.

However, these difficulties are not only the intellectual overhead of the software, but also the cost of the hardware.

After the text is sorted and encoded according to certain rules, and can be retrieved by input method, it is still not all right, and the computer must arrange the matching storage space in order to display them, and the ASCII table containing the 26 basic letters of English is not much, but the font containing thousands of Chinese characters is expensive.

For example, in order to print Chinese characters on Epson's 7-needle dot matrix printer, the print head must be divided into odd and even lines according to the setting of the 12x12 dot matrix font library to complete the printing of a Chinese character.

In this font, the dot matrix information of a Chinese character requires 32 bytes of storage space.

Jian Mingren's traditional Chinese font library contains nearly 10,000 characters, roughly calculating, the storage space required reaches 320K, which is an overhead that a microcomputer cannot afford.

You know, the current mainstream 8-bit CPU, such as Intel's 8080, Zilog's Z80, Motorola's 6800, MOSTechnology's 6502, its maximum addressing address space is 64K, Apple's current hot-selling second-generation machine, is only equipped with 48KB of memory.

Seeing this situation, Tang Huan had no choice but to put on the battlefield again, using data compression technology to reduce the space occupied by the Chinese character library to an acceptable level, which made it possible to be commercialized.

Fortunately, during this period, Japan's electronics industry developed rapidly, the selling price of various components fell rapidly, and the cost and profit could be taken into account, which was also a major reason why Tang Huan left the United States and went to Asia to open a factory.

Therefore, in the original historical time and space, the road of computer informatization of Chinese characters was very tortuous.

Well, now that Tang Huan has set the direction and framework at the initial stage, although no one has yet been able to realize the greatness of this work, time will tell, and it doesn't matter if the temporary deep hidden merit and fame are there.

Comparing Tang Huan and Zhu Bangfu's practices in Chinese information computer processing, we will find that Tang Huan, who is proficient in technological trends and well versed in market rules, is relatively pragmatic, while Zhu Bangfu is somewhat idealistic.

Of course, if Zhu Bangfu is willing to accept the support provided by Tang Huan in the early stage of personal computer development, his ideal of a comprehensive Chinese information computer processing system with "six functions of Chinese characters" of character code, glyph, character order, character pronunciation, character meaning, and character recognition may not be impossible to realize.

In this way, it is also a great promotion for the preservation and research of various ancient Chinese books.

"I'm telling the truth, and seeing the capabilities of the Fangyuan computer, I find that my research direction seems to need to be adjusted." Zhu Bangfu looked at Tang Huan and said sincerely.

Tang Huan groaned slightly, "Mr. Zhu, with all due respect, you are not necessarily good at the underlying technology of the computer, it is better to concentrate all your energy on the sorting out of Chinese coding and the design of input methods, and the hardware side will be implemented by special personnel." ”

Zhu Bangfu showed a puzzled look on his face, "I don't understand the division of labor you said. ”

"For example, the Fangyuan computer has a circuit board inside, which I call a Chinese card, which is specially used to store the Chinese character library, process the input of Chinese characters, and display the Chinese characters. Take away the Hanka, the Fangyuan computer is an ordinary English computer, and with the Hanka, it becomes a Chinese computer. Tang Huan patiently explained.

Zhu Bangfu nodded suddenly, "In other words, I just need to concentrate on designing another kind of Hanka that has more comprehensive support for Chinese characters, and then install it on the Fangyuan computer." ”

Tang Huan smiled, of course, the specific implementation will not be so simple, and it will also involve the support details of the operating system and other aspects, but the general idea is like this.

"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years. Mr. Tang, how about we have a few drinks together for dinner, I'll treat you. Zhu Bangfu said excitedly.

"Naturally, I can't ask for it, but Mr. Zhu is here, and Zheru Company should be responsible for entertaining." Tang Huan laughed, turned his head to Shi Chongtang and said, "Chongtang, arrange a hotel for us later." ”

Shi Chongtang nodded in agreement, and then said in a low voice: "Miss Lin is here, and she is in the office." ”

Tang Huan sighed without moving, and then made an apologetic gesture to Zhu Bangfu, "Mr. Zhu, you feel free to visit first, and I'll take care of other things." ”

After saying goodbye, Tang Huan hurriedly returned to the office, and sure enough, he saw Lin Fengjiao waiting quietly.

"You're not feeling well, why don't you rest more." Tang Huan walked over, took the beauty's little hand, and said with concern.

"It doesn't matter. Seeing that you are busy all day long, you must be very tired, I specially boiled soup and sent it to you to replenish your body. Lin Fengjiao smiled gently.

Tang Huan looked at Lin Fengjiao carefully, and saw that the style between her eyebrows and eyes was obviously different from yesterday, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud and satisfied, "Jiaojiao is intimate." But in my opinion, you lost a lot of blood yesterday and need to nourish your body even more. ”

Hearing Tang Huan's implicit words, Lin Fengjiao's neck turned red, took Tang Huan's hand and bit it lightly, and scolded: "Bad guy." ”

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