In order to ensure the execution of the Fangyuan Computer Standards Alliance, Tang Huan can be said to have done it himself, listening to the plans of every collaborator, especially those third-party ISA expansion card manufacturers, and confirming in person that their products will not be later than the autumn COMDEX in November this year.

All in all, Tang Huan wanted to give the Fangyuan Computer Standards Alliance the greatest initial acceleration possible, as long as this chariot was running, no one would try to stop it, not even himself. All he can control is to guide the way forward through the operating system, BIOS, and north-south bridge chips.

These affairs are inevitably boring and boring to deal with, but the few activities he took time to attend were still very interesting.

Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and EA jointly built two network platform applications, BBS, which stands for electronic bulletin board system and MUD, which means mud online game, and used the summer vacation to recruit college students for testing.

As far as the hardware architecture is concerned, the backend uses the Yipeng/Holder server prototype, the front-end is Fangyuan computer and Apple computer, and the network uses the public switched telephone network without any other choice.

The front-end personal computer, via a modem, dials up to a back-office server on the public switched telephone network.

The current network speed is roughly between 150bps and 300bps, which is not the same as the broadband conditions of the future, and the cost is very expensive, but it is still worth the money as a necessary expenditure for research projects.

Neither BBS nor MUD was born in the 1970s.

The earliest public-facing dial-up BulletinBoardSystem-BBS, which is believed to have been in operation, was the 1978 Ward Christensen-Ward? Christensen and Randy Suess - Randy? The ComputerizedBulletinBoard System - CBBS was founded by Sethus.

It was born in 1978 when the Great Lakes region of North America experienced a major snowstorm. Due to the inconvenience of communication. Ward? Christensen and Randy? Seth came up with the idea of creating a public BBS.

The services provided by BBS are very practical. Including bulletin boards, classified discussion areas, news reading, software and game exchanges, user online conversations, and so on.

Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and EA officially provide BBS services as a part of their product support.

Tang Huan also sponsored the research and development and application of BBS to various universities on the West Coast, which made the BBS culture popular, and his ID was also very famous in the circle.

In the development of BBS systems, network communication protocols are a very important topic.

At present, TCP/IP has not replaced the old NetworkControl Protocol - Network Control Protocol (NCP) in the ARPA network, and it is naturally not its turn to take the position of the boss.

But the corresponding problem is developing web applications. It's not always easy to find a ready-made, reliable, and easy-to-use network communication protocol.

Tang Huan used a BBS project that can be seen and touched in reality, and he drove a number of technical topics of Zheru R&D Center, thus saving him a lot of pen and ink and saliva to explain his requirements.

MUD was also brought to the stage by Tang Huan for the purpose of this pull effect, and its history can be traced back to the appearance of a multi-user Dungeon game called Multi-User Dungeon in the United Kingdom in 1978.

In a way, MUD is the prototype of the online role-playing game decades later, but the interaction is very primitive and relies entirely on text.

In the original time and space, it was interpreted with different meanings. It includes Multi-UserDimension, MultipleUserDialogue, and MultipleUserDomain.

When Tang Huan came up with these names, EA chose to use MultipleUserDomain - MUD. As the name of the official operation.

In the field of BBS, Tang Huan belongs to the old bird, and he uses it more to explain computer technology, attracting many believers to call himself a disciple and a grandson.

But for MUD, this is the first time he's been involved as a player.

When a command is typed, the system says: You've come to a square, but there's no one but yourself.

At this time, the system broadcast the news of Tang Huan's landing, but Tang Huan didn't pay much attention to it, and knocked on gowest casually, planning to go all the way to the west.

But it didn't take long for the system to prompt a crowd of people, a large number of greeting emojis appeared, and then the plane crashed.

Seeing this, Hawkins shrugged helplessly, "I told the admins to stop broadcasting, but they are still mischievous." It's strange that your appeal is so great that you attract so many people to make system requests, and the server doesn't crash. ”

Tang Huan smiled and shook his head, "These guys are just using me to test the limits of the system." ”

Overall, the MUD performed quite well, as evidenced by the enthusiasm of the testers.

However, due to the objective limitation of the current high cost of the Internet, compared with the functional BBS, the MUD of social entertainment is not so easy to popularize.

But in any case, through the test of the MUD project, Zheru's network technology reserve has been significantly strengthened.

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Tang Huan's next most important itinerary was a trip to the mainland. This time it's not like before, only going around in the southern cities, he is going to officially enter Beijing.

As an important concoction of exchanges, the status of sports cannot be ignored, and Tang Huan specially invited Neligin from Moscow in the Soviet Union to San Francisco, intending to let the Olympic champion help out.

The last time he went to Treasure Island in the name of a business delegation, Tang Huan took the Oakland Athletics with him from the Major League Baseball team. This time, Tang Huan is bringing the NBA's Golden State Warriors.

Although there is a slight conflict in time. But Tang Huan has already communicated with the NBA.

But what he didn't expect was. It's such a big thing, so that the NBA's executive vice president David Stern-David? Stern, personally made a trip.

Through conversation, Tang Huan guessed David? What makes Stern so passionate.

To be honest, compared to the strong ability of major football leagues and major leagues baseball to attract money, the NBA has always been relatively weak, not to mention its further popularity, and it will have to wait until the Jordan era in the next few years to hype.

In the original time and space. David? After sitting on the NBA president's throne, Stern has worked hard and even controversially for the development and growth of the NBA during his 30-year tenure.

For example, in the 1985 NBA lottery draft, seven envelopes representing seven teams were placed in cylinders and rotated, and then the cards were drawn by David? Stern drew the envelopes in turn to decide where to go for spots 1 through 7.

The resulting video shows two envelopes being placed heavily inside, and the other five envelopes being gently placed at the bottom of the cylinder.

When the cylinder was spun three or four times, David? Stern picked up several stacked envelopes. And chose the bottom one.

As a result, the New York Knicks got the No. 1 pick.

This makes many people suspicious. The NBA made a manipulation during the lottery and intended to send the best player Ewing to New York in order to expand the television market and enhance the influence of the NBA.

And the specific way of cheating, there is the speculation of "frozen envelopes", that is, the envelopes that represent the Knicks are frozen in the refrigerator in advance, so David? Stern could make out the only cold envelope with his fingers.

There are many opinions about such events, but David? Stern's move to develop and expand the NBA's audience is clear, with the idea of setting up training camps, touring around the world, recruiting more international players, and so on.

In other words, after hearing that Tang Huan was going to take an NBA team to the world's most populous eastern country for exchange activities, David, as the executive vice president? Stern, who couldn't help but see the joy of hunting, moved some other thoughts.

Everyone is a smart person, some things don't need to be said so bluntly, Tang Huan cares about the fulfillment of the mainland itinerary, David? Stern values the influence of the NBA, and the two sides have no conflict, but they have a lot of common interests, so it is not surprising that the conversation that follows is very pleasant.

After discovering that preparations for the trip to the mainland still needed a few days, Tang Huan took Neligin around.

Seeing that the other party still maintained a delicate figure, Tang Huan remembered something.

The study of computerized data processing for sports is not limited to Chelsea FC, but also to teams in the United States.

When Nellikin personally confirmed that she could still complete the performative gymnastic movements, Tang Huan arranged a technical team to conduct on-site research in the company's internal gymnasium with equipment.

Even Tang Huan was itchy for a while, and he took the initiative to fight a few punches.

In the face of the compliments of his subordinates, Tang Huan, who was very satisfied with the maintenance of his physical fitness, waved his hand and smiled: "I hope that my hard work will help the progress of the project, at least the fighting games, which currently have the foundation to be realized." ”

After receiving the towel handed by Nelikin, Tang Huan added: "What's more, I also invited you to the Olympic gymnastics champion to provide more reference data." ”

Neligin listened curiously, and couldn't help but ask, "Can there be female characters in fighting games?" ”

"Of course." Tang Huan laughed, "According to my estimate, players are likely to favor it." ”

This kind of technical research, simply participating in it, is still more interesting, Tang Huan regarded it as a kind of relaxation.

During this period, Tang Wenmao brought the news that the Chinese American Museum designed by Tang Huan and Lin Ying had been completed in San Francisco's Chinatown, and he, the sponsor, had to make a show at the opening ceremony.

For this invitation, Tang Huan is of course duty-bound to attend.

The land for the museum was purchased by the Shennong Foundation, and the Chinese in Chinatown also provided various supports, so the process from fundraising, design to completion, etc., was very smooth.

On the day of the opening ceremony, the lion dance and whip were released, which was very lively.

Tang Huan chatted with Lin Ying for a few words, and learned that recently Jobs specially invited Lin Ying to discuss the process design of the product appearance for his MAC.

In this regard, Tang Huan was very speechless, how far has the personal computer market been fighting now, you are still so leisurely and elegant.

In fact, at present, Lin Ying's popularity is basically limited to professional circles, and the wider society and people still don't know much about her, after all, her famous work, the Vietnam War Monument, has not yet been built.

On July 1 of last year, the U.S. Congress approved three acres of land in Constitution Garden, near the National Lawn, northeast of the Lincoln Memorial, as a site for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and announced the start of a design competition.

By December 29 of that year, more than 2,500 people had signed up for a design competition with a prize of 50,000.

On March 31 of this year, the selection committee collected more than 1,400 designs.

After being numbered to make the author anonymous, Maya Lin's design was unanimously selected as the winner on May 6 this year.

However, because Maya Lin's Asian identity is a sensitive issue, relevant parties have deliberately avoided her name even now.

To be honest, compared to the strong ability of major football leagues and major leagues baseball to attract money, the NBA has always been relatively weak, not to mention its further popularity, and it will have to wait until the Jordan era in the next few years to hype.

In the original plane, David? After sitting on the NBA president's throne, Stern has worked hard and even controversially for the development and growth of the NBA during his 30-year tenure.

For example, in the 1985 NBA lottery draft, seven envelopes representing seven teams were placed in cylinders and rotated, and then the cards were drawn by David? Stern drew the envelopes in turn to decide where to go for spots 1 through 7.

The resulting video shows two envelopes being placed heavily inside, and the other five envelopes being gently placed at the bottom of the cylinder.

When the cylinder was spun three or four times, David? Stern picked up several stacked envelopes and chose the bottom one.

As a result, the New York Knicks got the No. 1 pick.

This has led many to suspect that the NBA did a trick in the lottery and deliberately sent its best player, Ewing, to New York in order to expand the television market and enhance the influence of the NBA.

As for the specific way of cheating, there is the speculation of "frozen envelopes", that is, the envelopes of the Knicks are put in the refrigerator in advance (to be continued......