Chapter 13: The Door
As the top science and engineering institution in China, Imperial College London has three campuses, namely the School of Science and Technology, the School of Aeronautical Power and the School of Electric Power Engineering, which are the central campus and the north and south campuses as they are called by students. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Polytechnic School is undoubtedly the largest of the three campuses, including physical chemistry, medical biology, information engineering and other most important majors are concentrated here, because the campus area planned at the beginning of the establishment of the school is very large, and the student union and student clubs, activity rooms are almost concentrated here.
In a corner of the Polytechnic, deep in the corridor on the third floor of an old teaching building built in the early eighties of the last century.
Sun Cheng gasped and stood at a dilapidated doorway, holding the wall with one hand and inserting the key into the lock with the other, he quickly unscrewed the door of the activity room of the [Electromagnetic Enthusiast Club] and walked in.
Although the School of Aviation Power is not far from the Institute of Science and Technology, it is not close, and it took him more than 20 minutes to get to the place.
Because the last time I came to the activity room was before the exam in the third year, although the doors and windows were tightly closed, Sun Cheng immediately frowned when he walked into the activity room.
The activity room was useless for a while, not only did a layer of dust accumulate in the room, but even the air in the room was faintly turbid and musty.
Afraid that someone would break in during his own experiment, Sun Cheng locked the door first, then opened the window, and did not forget to turn on the air conditioner for ventilation, because he was anxious to verify his conjecture, he just found a rag to wipe the computer around the computer desk casually, and then hurriedly connected to the power and turned on the computer, and then sat down.
The monitor soon lit up, and it was still reading the progress bar of the Kirin operating system.
For this domestic operating system, not only Sun Cheng, but also all domestic netizens in Daming have a very complicated attitude towards it.
As an oriental power that has experienced decline and re-emergence in modern times, because it has missed the accumulation of centuries of knowledge since the Age of Discovery, the Ming Dynasty has been catching up in the field of the latest technology since entering the twentieth century, such as aerospace, nuclear energy, high-precision machinery, electronics industry and IT industry.
Located on the other side of the sea, the United States of America gave birth to an IT company called Microsoft at the end of the last century, relying on the main computer operating system, Microsoft's desktop operating system once occupied more than ninety percent of the global market, including Daming.
Every year, in order to purchase Microsoft's operating system, China needs to pay a lot of foreign exchange, and Microsoft's official butt is not very clean, and the designed operating system has many bugs that make people unable to complain, and always likes to leave some secret doors behind the scenes.
In 1995, Daming's banking industry suffered heavy losses due to an attack by an overseas hacker group that purchased an operating system from Microsoft.
So in the second year, under the advocacy of the Ministry of Industry, the first operating system developer of Daming - Fiberhome Company was born, and the domestic operating system Kirin series is the work of Fiberhome.
The reading bar was still beating slowly, and Sun Cheng's fingers were tapping on the keyboard unconsciously, his eyes flickering slightly.
To insist that the Kirin operating system is domestic, it is not accurate.
In fact, it is not easy to develop a set of perfect operating system for multi-user, multi-task, multi-threading and multi-CPU, Daming's attention to computers has been more than ten years later than Europe and the United States, the shortcomings of basic education, coupled with the lack of technical talent reserves, have exacerbated the difficulty of developing an operating system independently.
Therefore, after the establishment of Fiberhome, in order to complete the commission of the Ministry of Industry as soon as possible, they chose to carry out comprehensive localization and improvement on the basis of the Linux operating system, and finally launched the first version of the Kirin 1.0 operating system at the end of 1997.
Although the Linux operating system is an open operating system, the founders have published its source code on the Internet, allowing any organization in any country in the world to use it at will.
However, this kind of use is obviously not allowed for commercial use.
Therefore, Daming's so-called domestic Kirin operating system has been criticized by the Linux founder group and the IT technology community in Europe and the United States since it was exposed.
The consequences of offending the Linux founders group are undoubtedly serious, although there is no patent lawsuit between the two sides because of the open source of the source code, but many Linux enthusiasts with technology regard Fiberhome and even Daming as a cancer, refusing to cooperate or provide technical support for it, and the Kylin operating system has therefore cut off the possibility of going abroad.
Since the Kirin version 1.0, it took more than ten years for Fiberhome to launch six upgrades, all of which were only slightly modified on the basis of version 1.0.
Whether it is operation, aesthetics or ecosystem, it is not to mention that compared with the win7 system that is now popular all over the world, even if Microsoft is about to announce that it is about to abandon the updated XP system, the operation experience is more than better than the latest Kirin 7.0 version launched by Fiberhome in 2009.
If it weren't for the fact that the cabinet of ministers in order to support Beacon, it was mandatory for state-owned enterprises to purchase a part of the share, and at the same time, local governments also had indicators that they needed to be uniformly procured and installed in government agencies, and even hospitals, schools and other public facilities.
But even so, the Chinese people really hate iron and steel.
After waiting for a long time, Sun Cheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw the familiar simple desktop pop up.
The computer in the activity room is really well equipped, at least higher than the Chinese desktop computer in his own home that was assembled more than 5,000 years ago three years ago.
However, because my own computer is installed with Microsoft's XP system, the slowest boot time is only more than 20 seconds, and it can generally enter within 20 seconds.
The computer in front of him, but because of the drag of the operating system, it took more than 30 seconds to start, which shows that the technology of the operating system team of Fiberhome is still a little worse, not only failed to understand Linux, but also strengthened the optimization of hardware.
Because it is not his own computer, except for some electronic textbooks and mock test questions he downloaded from the school library earlier this year in order to prepare for the third-year exams, Sun Cheng hardly left anything more in the well-equipped computer in the activity room!
Taking a deep breath and closing his eyes, in order to relax as much as possible, Sun Cheng chose a more comfortable position, and the whole person collapsed on the chair as if he had softened.
It took a little effort to throw aside all the messy thoughts and troubles in his head, and the tranquility at the spiritual level made him quickly familiar with his consciousness space.
"One, two, three...... Five! It really appeared! ”
In the sea of consciousness, when Sun Cheng captured a new dim point of light as he wished, in an instant, an emotion called ecstasy surged into his heart, and he once again proved a conjecture as he wished, which was no less than opening a door for him to try to fully grasp his newly acquired ability.
"No, no, maybe it's just accidental, maybe it's not just because of the CPU!"
So comforting himself, trying to calm his boiling thoughts.
However, Sun Cheng couldn't control his high emotions, and almost couldn't wait to use his spirit to connect with the new dim light.
Wow!
When he saw the scenery in front of him again, it was indeed an attractive matrix of blue, white, and black numbers.
"It's beautiful!"
A hint of intoxication flashed in his eyes, and Sun Cheng couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart.
As far as the eye can see, this ocean of data is wide but slightly empty.
As far as the eye can see, except for a huge and regular pile of data lying there in the distance, there are only a few sets of digital matrices scattered not far away, no matter how large the scale of any one is not much larger than the [Piano Introductory Textbook] he absorbed from Lao Si Anbin's computer last night.
"Well, let's test my other conjecture!"
His thoughts couldn't help but boil again because of that crazy thought, but this time Sun Cheng didn't mean to continue to appease it at all.
looked at the groups of number matrices not far away, and the thoughts in his heart were just together, and he saw that those sets of data seemed to be alive, and they all thought that he swam over.
Feeling the slight dizziness and fullness of these small amounts of data when they were absorbed, Sun Cheng couldn't help but moan, his eyes full of satisfaction.
"I'm going, I'm used to it, and it's a little comfortable!"
Boredom complained to himself, a thought flashed in his heart, Sun Cheng suddenly felt that the relevant knowledge of mechanical control theory he had elected, as if the textbook had been opened in front of him, just a thought, any simple or complicated knowledge points, all surfaced.
"This kind of learning method is much better than rote memorization!"
The switch of excitement had been turned on, and if he hadn't been able to move now, Sun Cheng had no doubt that he would jump up because he was too excited.
Do the math, it's been a few days.
To this day, he still remembers the few designs he obtained from the Poplar-class supercomputer database of the Institute.
It was precisely because of this discovery that he didn't want to give it a try, if his memory was really strengthened because of his newly acquired ability, then what if he absorbed more knowledge?
Will he Sun Cheng become the next Sinan?
Or are they the scientific giants like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking who influenced an era?
Or is it the smartest being that humanity has ever seen?
Just thinking about it, Sun Cheng felt that it was a little difficult to suppress the rapidly surging blood pressure.
Excited, he quickly and excitedly made a decision.
Looking around at the empty surroundings, Sun Cheng's gaze quickly fell on the extremely large set of data lying in the ocean of data in the distance.
As soon as his mind moved, the huge data that had been lying quietly in the distance suddenly seemed like an enraged sea.
Surging out!
Roaring!
Pounced on him!