Chapter 47: The Movie (12)
The pyramid faces the slope wall of the square array, full of gorgeously dressed scholars, with the order of Qin Shi Huang, the four bronze tripods standing on the four corners of the pyramid burned a swift bonfire, and the scholars also sang in unison:
"Into a computer queue—"
On the boundless continent, a phalanx swept up black and white waves, as the flags continued to rise and fall, the extremely complex but sophisticated circuit structure continued to spread to every part of the phalanx, and the computer showed itself for the first time in this world, standing out with a grand posture.
Von Neumann stretched out his hand, introduced the computer machine formed by countless people, and said: "Your Majesty, we have named this computer 'Qin No. 1'. You see, there, in the center, is the CPU, which is the core computing element of the computer. ”
"Composed of your five most elite legions, you can see the adders, registers, stacks and memories in this diagram; The neat part of the periphery is the memory, when building this part, we found that there is not enough manpower, but fortunately, the action of each unit in this part is the simplest, and each soldier is trained to hold a multi-colored flag, and after the combination, one person can complete the operation of the first twenty people at the same time, which makes the memory capacity meet the minimum requirements for running the 'Qin 1.0' operating system; And then you look at the channel that runs through the array, and the light drivers who are on standby on the channel, which is the BUS, the system bus, which is responsible for passing information between the whole system. ”
"The bus structure is a great invention, the new plug-in, which can be composed of up to ten legions, can be quickly hooked to run on the bus, which makes the hardware expansion and upgrade of the 'Qin No. 1' very convenient;"
"Look at the farthest side, you may have to use a telescope to see clearly, that's external memory, we used the name of the blue cat, called it 'hard disk', it is composed of three million people with a higher level of education, you left them right last time, each of them has a record book and pen in their hands, responsible for recording the results of the operation, of course, their biggest workload is still as virtual memory, storing the results of intermediate operations, and the bottleneck of the speed of computing is where they are."
"Here, the closest place to us, is the display array, which shows the main status parameters of the computer."
Later, von Neumann and Newton worked together to bring a large paper scroll about two meters high, spread it out on the platform on the pyramid, and introduced it to Qin Shi Huang: "Your Majesty, this is the 'Qin 1.0' version of the operating system we have developed, and the computing software will run on it. Your Majesty, look—"
Von Neumann stretched out his hand again and pointed to the dense black dots on the ground, "This array is hardware, and what is written on this piece of paper is software, hardware and software, just like the relationship between the piano and the score." ”
As he was talking, he and Newton took out a second piece of white paper of the same size from the bottom of the first page, and said: "Your Majesty, this is the software for solving that set of differential equations by numerical method, and inputting the motion vector of the three suns in a certain time section obtained by astronomical observations, and its operation can predict for us the operation state of the sun at any time in the future." In this calculation, we will make a complete prediction of the movement of the Sun in the next two years, with a time interval of 120 hours for each set of predictions. ”
"Let's get started." Qin Shi Huang's jaw.
"By the Holy Decree, the computer is activated! System self-test! Von Neumann shouted with a solemn and dignified expression.
On the waist of the pyramid, the flag-bearers lined up waved a command signal with a large flag, which was transmitted to a series of figures on the ground below, followed by countless flags waving, making the computer move quickly.
Under the pyramid, on the ground, there is a row of troops holding green flags, symbolizing the self-inspection progress bar. As the man in the computer danced the flag, the green flag began to rise continuously.
Ten minutes later, the progress bar came to an end.
"Self-test complete! Bootloader runs! OS Loading!! A team of clerks shouted.
On the earth, the soldiers who used it as a signal transmission line began to run quickly, the main transmission line was like a big river on the earth, and the small information transmission road was a river, if you looked closely, the river and the figure in the big river were constantly intersecting, moving back and forth.
Nourished by the "Source of Life", the land containing the river gradually prospered, and the black and white waves soon swept in all directions, overturning the land six kilometers squarely.
But suddenly, such a huge wave stopped, starting with the central processing unit and slowing down little by little, until it stopped completely, and the whole computer suddenly crashed, so that countless flags stopped, and only scattered people were waving flags unconsciously.
Red Alert.
The display array at the front waved a red flag.
"System locked!"
A signaling officer loudly declares the cause of the malfunction.
One of the gates in the status recording section of the CPU is running off.
"The system is back on fire!" Von Neumann didn't care, he was so confident in the structure he had invented that he shouted the order again.
The signalman leaned over and listened to the order.
"Slow!" At this moment, Newton walked out, asked the signal officer to stop first, and then leaned over towards Qin Shi Huang, and then raised his head, revealing a grim and vicious face, "Your Majesty, for the stable operation of the system, some maintenance measures should be taken for the parts with a high failure rate." ”
Qin Shi Huang did not hesitate, and stuck his long sword into the ground to support his body: "Replace the wrong part, all the soldiers who make up that part, behead!" In the future, the fault will be handled as such. ”
Von Neumann and the Blue Cat looked at Newton and were both hostile, but they had no choice but to rush to the computer in a row, blood splattered, and the repairs were accompanied by warnings to the various parts.
After that, the signal for a hot start is released.
This time, there was no mistake in the start-up, and about twenty minutes later, the computing structure human train computer invented by von Neumann in this fantasy world was running rapidly under the "Qin 1.0" operating system.
"Launch the solar orbit calculation software 'ThreeBody l.0'!" Newton used all the muscles of his body, poured all the power into his throat, and shouted in the most extreme voice: "Start the calculation master!" Load the Differential Module! Load the FE module! Loading the Spectral Methods Module...... Bring in the initial condition parameters! Calculation Start!! ”
"It's really interesting." Qin Shi Huang stretched out his hand and marveled at the soldiers: "Such a simple act of everyone has produced such a complex and big thing!" Europeans scold dictatorship and tyranny, stifling the creativity of society, but in fact, a large number of people under strict discipline can produce great wisdom when combined into a whole. ”