"Tut-tut, 8 billion US dollars, 20 years, that is, 400 million per year! Husband, where can I use so much? At night, Yan Xiaoyun lay on Ling Shizhe's chest and said.

"Of course, I can't spend so much, I said that to tell Wang Yuanzhuo not to worry about the problem of funds." Ling Shi philosophically straightened Yan Xiaoyun's hair.

If, like Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom, the research is going well, it will be about $2 billion at most. EJ200 is the fifth generation of advanced mid-thrust engine developed by Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain, these four countries, due to the different national conditions of each country, so the performance indicators of aero engines have their own different requirements, so EJ200 in the process of research and development, just taking into account the different needs of the four countries, it wastes a lot of time and money, even so the total R & D cost of EJ200 does not exceed 2 billion US dollars.

In addition, although the EJ200 is relatively simple, in order to take into account the different national conditions of the four countries, the EJ200 will inevitably become more complicated in the development process. Now Ling Shizhe is developing EJ200 by himself, and many unnecessary things that are not used or even some unnecessary things can be simplified or even removed from it, but it can further save R&D costs, so no matter how you calculate it, you can't use 8 billion.

The reason why Ling Shizhe said 8 billion was not to give Wang Yuanzhuo so much at one time, but he also had some spare funds in his hand to deal with emergencies.

Ambrera does not have the slightest technical background in the field of aero engines, and the turbofan power technology is strictly guarded by various countries, which is destined to be no different from the research and development of Ling Shizhe's turbofan engine behind closed doors.

Aero engine technology is very difficult, once the research and development is blocked, overspending is simply commonplace, so he has prepared four times the funds, which should be able to cope with various situations.

From 72 years decided to engage in aero engines, to now is the third year, the three years alone the R & D center of various equipment investment, basic plant construction, as well as the resettlement of local farmers compensation and R & D personnel housing and other living placement, it cost 4 billion Hong Kong dollars, this is not over, the entire R & D center has just completed half, as the project continues to deepen, the next three years will spend another 4 billion Hong Kong dollars, the entire jet and propulsion laboratory R & D center can be built.

The equipment investment alone accounted for almost 90%, not to mention anything else, Ling Shizhe spent 90 million US dollars on the high-altitude test bench alone; The database center spent nearly $500 million, and the supercomputer alone cost $100 million, although it was manufactured by Ambrera itself, but it couldn't stand up to his own high cost, and two supercomputers would be added in the next three years to meet the R&D needs.

The investment in the disk array is not small, it is the core of the aviation power database, but as more and more data is collected, more disk arrays are needed to store the data, and the new disk and maintenance costs are added every year, which is a large expense.

Due to the influence of the halo of rebirth, the solid state drive was appeared forty years in advance, it is small size, large capacity, fast read and write speed, stable data transmission, and the price is much cheaper than the mechanical hard disk of this era, so from the day of birth, it has quickly been favored by the market, especially banks, government departments, the Ministry of Defense and those international large enterprises, there is a great demand for solid state drives every year, there are authoritative statistics, by 77 years, the global demand for solid state drives will reach 10 million disks per year.

History has been changed, the 70s of the mechanical hard disk has not yet reached the stage of practical use, was ruthlessly swept into the garbage heap of history, IBM's mechanical hard disk research and development team has long been disbanded, turn the direction to study the solid state drive, with the toes are to think, the future is the world of solid state drive, mechanical hard disk will never appear on the market, let alone as popular as in the previous life.

Affected by Moore's Law, 150MB capacity SSDs have appeared on the market, 100MB began to enter the popularization stage, and now the mainstream on the market is 50MB HDDs, the price is $1100 per piece, which is really expensive, and it is not so kind to those small and medium-sized enterprises.

So the 3.5-inch floppy disk quickly filled the market, Hong Kong and Taiwan have six companies are working day and night for Ambrera to do floppy disk OEM, its annual output has exceeded 20 million, or in short supply, and the tape memory market is in sharp contrast to the rapid obscenity, in the future with the further popularity of PC computers, people's demand for floppy disks will reach an unprecedented level of horror. Even after a long period of CD-ROM popularization, it will not disappear completely.

Early the next morning, Ling Shizhe came to the spaceship headquarters building in Tseung Kwan O, and today he was going to install an instant messaging software - Panda QQ on all the computers in the company.

As Ambrera company is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more employees, the mutual exchange of information has become an obstacle to the development of the company, and the company's telephone bill is a lot of money every month.

"This is an instant messaging software that I just developed," Ling Shizhe said to his secretary Bai Lu while inserting a floppy disk into the computer, "It is the communication method I told you a few days ago that allows us to communicate more conveniently with higher efficiency and lower cost, so as to save phone bills to the greatest extent." ”

Instant messaging software, a lot of code of related software on the Internet in later generations, this thing is mainly an idea, and there is really nothing else, technically speaking, for Ling Shizhe, this thing has no difficulty.

This software is modified by Ling Shizhe on the basis of the qq2006 version,After decompiling and extracting the code,Remove the original unlimited paging、GSM short message and IP phone interconnection and other functions,Increase the group chat mode,Retain the most basic chat function and file transfer function。 The biggest difference with QQ is that Ling Shizhe's version of QQ does not use a penguin image, but a cute giant panda, so Ling Shizhe named him Panda QQ.

"This is what you mean by instant messaging software?" Bai Lu looked curiously at the software that was being unzipped on the computer, "This thing can communicate with us on the computer, and we can also communicate with Canada?" ”

"I can't communicate with Canada," Ling Shizhe shook his head and denied: "If you want to communicate with people in Canada, you have to pull a wire to connect the two places, and this can only be used on the internal LAN." ”

The Internet began in the United States in 1969, also known as the Internet. It was the U.S. military that connected the four major computers of the universities in the southwestern United States, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), Stanford Research Institute, UCSB (University of California), and Universityofutah (University of Utah) under an agreement developed by ARPA. This agreement was implemented by the BBN and MA of the University of Cambridge and became online in December 1969.

By June 1970, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Harvard (Harvard University), BBN, and Systems Development Corpinsantamonica (Santa Monica, Calif.) were on board. By January 1972, Stanford University, Mit's Lincolnlabs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Westernreserveu were on board.

In the months that followed, NASA/AMES (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Mitre, Burroughs, RAND (RAND Corporation) and Theuofillinois (University of Illinois) joined in. In 1983, the U.S. Department of Defense divided the ARPANET into a military network and a civilian network, which gradually expanded into the Internet in later generations. More and more companies joined after that.

In order to get a piece of the pie in the formulation of global Internet standards in the future, Ling Shizhe jointly issued invitation letters to MIT, Harvard, Stanford and other universities in the United States in the name of academic exchanges, inviting those university professors to Hong Kong to experience the convenience brought by the Internet.

This is what Ling Shizhe has long considered, at this time, the so-called Internet is completely controlled by the US military, and if he goes rashly, he will be treated as a spy if he doesn't get it, and the best way is to contact American universities through universities in Hong Kong, and indirectly connect with the US military.

Of course, Ling Shizhe did not pay no price at all, he opened up the LAN technology to the universities in Hong Kong, claiming that it was jointly developed by Ambrera and them, and then contacted the American universities in this name, and invited them to come to Hong Kong to show them the results of our local area network, so as to be recognized by the American universities, and finally participate in the formulation of Internet standards.

The opportunity to work with universities in the United States to set the standards for the future of the Internet is a beautiful thing for the universities in Hong Kong to enhance their international standing, and there is no reason not to say yes, so they are very active.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, they also used various connections to bring in the governor of Hong Kong to help, creating a false impression to the Yankees that the British government was backing them up.

Things went very smoothly, and the Yankees really fell for it, and Ling Shizhe's LAN technology also won the favor of those Yankees, so after they returned to China, they made a detailed report to ARPA (ARPANET, the US Defense Research and Projects Agency), which successfully aroused the interest of the US military.

The matter was then simple: the US military quickly sent people to Hong Kong, along with several vice presidents of well-known US universities, and the two sides signed a package agreement, under which Hong Kong was willing to share its LAN technology with the United States, on the condition that it participate in the formulation of Internet standards.

The U.S. military generously agreed, and agreed very happily, much to Ling Shizhe's surprise, so that his follow-up plan had not been used, and the matter was perfectly resolved.

Ling Shizhe, who was confused, asked Wang Haihua why the Yankees were so generous, but he didn't expect to get the answer, which was completely unexpected by him.

It turns out that although the U.S. military nominally controlled the computer network, the early interconnection network was used by computer experts, engineers, and scientists, and was a pure platform for academic exchange and research, so the actual control of the early Internet was a group of professors in the United States. Ling Shizhe's Ethernet protocol ----- most LANs greatly facilitates academic exchanges between professors in various universities in the United States, and this technology was nominally invented by his university colleagues in Hong Kong, so they will not be embarrassed by this problem.

This is the same as why women are embarrassed by women, and why is college so difficult, which is why they are so happy. These university professors are simple-minded, limited by history, and do not realize how important the Internet will be in the future, and when they react in the future, they do not know how much they regret it.

As he spoke, Ling Shizhe had already installed the software on the computer, pulled out the floppy disk and handed it to Bai Lu, "Install it on your computer, you can experience the benefits of this thing by using it, this is your QQ number, just enter the number into it and connect it directly to the Internet." “

The current Internet is still just a prototype, more in the way of local area network, so there is no need to make special modifications, and the same as the future QQ Internet, just click directly, anyway, no matter how you point it, it is within this circle.

Bai Lu quickly entered his number, hit the keyboard enter, and soon connected to Ling Shizhe's computer online. QQ interface box is shown on the screen,Follow the prompt,Bai Lu tried it simply,I immediately realized the convenience of this small software,It's like two people on the phone,It's like two people on the phone,In addition to being limited by typing speed, it's even more convenient than making a phone call,At least when you can't remember something, you can go and look up the chat history just now。

After experiencing it, Bai Lu smiled: "Boss, I think the employees of the company will like him very much." ”

"I share your opinion."

"Unfortunately," Bai Lu typed out a row of English, "only English can be displayed, not Chinese." ”

Ling Shizhe replied in English on QQ: There will be Chinese, but not now, you have to wait for a while.

Bai Lu: I can't wait.

Ling Shizhe: I don't know, Chinese input is a big project, be patient, pro. I made a popular phrase on the Internet for later generations.

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