The blade server and PC computer developed by Ling Shizhe can only reach the level of 8-bit computer with the current technology, and before the birth of 16-bit computer, 2D animation production software is not to think about it, and only comic production software can be realized on 8-bit computer. … ≦ top novel,

There are many types of comic software in later generations, each with its own characteristics, Ling Shizhe thought about it for two days, and finally decided to use CS as an animation production software.

ICStud is the world's first professional comic software, which makes the traditional comic process perfectly reproduced on the computer, so that the comic creation is completely separated from the paper, and greatly improves the efficiency of comics.

CS is very popular in the world, as the world's first professional comic software, it combines the work characteristics of a large number of Japanese comic artists, with many professional techniques and professional tools for comic painting; According to the characteristics of the comic, you can directly draft on the software, and then make changes to each part until you are satisfied, delete the sketch, save or print the work.

The Japanese comic industry is developed, and many popular classic animations in later generations are generated by CS software.

Ling Shizhe spent two days designing the architecture of CS software, and then he began to design the graphics workstation.

There are two kinds of graphics workstations, one is the graphics workstation with reduced instruction set structure, its structure is no different from that of a blade server, so it is particularly expensive, and Hollywood's top special effects or top 3D animation will only use it.

The current computer hardware is only 8-bit technical level, no matter how you design this hardware level, it can't meet the requirements of 3D, and it can only be possible after the emergence of 32-bit computers, so this kind of workstation was shot by him without hesitation.

The only thing left is the complex instruction set graphics workstation, which is a kind of tower server derived from PC computer technology, which is inexpensive, flexible in configuration, easy to use, and low in maintenance/development costs, and is quite suitable for use as a comic workstation.

Ling Shizhe picked up a PC motherboard and took a closer look, and saw a CPU slot, a north-south bridge chipset, an AGP slot for inserting a discrete graphics card, a SISC hard disk slot, an IDE floppy drive slot, a PCI-E sound card and a network card slot, and a DDR memory slot......

Although it is only an 8-bit motherboard, it has all the functions and configurations on the computer motherboard of later generations. After testing, the structure of this motherboard is quite reasonable, and the operation is also very reliable and stable, it is a very mature 8-bit computer motherboard, Ling Shizhe is quite satisfied with his design of this motherboard.

Laying a blank sheet of paper on the table, Ling Shizhe began to design the motherboard of the graphics workstation based on this motherboard.

In fact, there is nothing difficult about this kind of motherboard, it is just an extension of the PC motherboard, there are more expansion slots on it, he expanded the CPU slot to 4, the APG graphics card slot to 6, the SISC hard disk slot to expand to 20, plus 2 IDE floppy drive slots, and the DDR memory slot to 8......

A few clicks, the basic structure of the motherboard of the graphics workstation was designed, not to blame Ling Shizhe for designing too fast, but at the beginning of the design of the PC, he used a large number of mature modular design concepts in the later generations, the advantage of modularization is that you can freely match the various functional modules you need according to the needs of users.

After the motherboard design was completed, he began to look at the C8080 CPU, which is a complex instruction set CPU, which is completely designed according to the C8080 of Intel in the previous life, this CPU has a lot of problems, the reason why Ling Shizhe asked Mark's team to design the C8080 is to give them practice only for use, so as to accumulate design experience in the X86 architecture, and he has no intention of launching it into the market at all.

The blade server has been launched for a while, and the economic benefits have been gratifying, and now it is time to put the PC on the market, but before the launch, the previous C8080CPU must not be able to change it, so he decided to use the 80486 architecture design.

80486 is Intel company in 1989 launched x86 series of 32-bit CPU, this CPU is quite classic, it uses cache (external) to solve the memory speed bottleneck problem, making it several times faster than 80386CPU.

If there are only these, it is not enough for Ling Shizhe to take the 80486CPU as a reference, what really impresses him is that the 486CPU adopts RISC technology for the first time, and changes the microprogram logic control to hardware wiring logic control, which shortens the decoding and execution time of instructions and improves the execution speed of instructions.

This design is the first time that a CPU has fused CISC and RISC technologies, and it is a milestone.

486 is a 32-bit processor, it must not be used directly, it can only be used as a reference for the new CPU structure, Ling Shizhe's first thing to do is to downgrade 486, downgrade it from 32-bit to 8-bit CPU, general registers, address registers, pointer registers, bucket shift registers, internal technical buses, etc., all turn them into 8-bit units, in addition, he also introduced clock frequency multiplication technology in it to maximize the running speed and main frequency of the CPU.

The number of cache memory has been increased by 10%, which can better solve the memory speed bottleneck.

In addition, Ling Shizhe also further optimized the structure of the micro-RISC to make the pipeline control of the CPU more scientific and reasonable.

This is a little modified, that is optimized, Ling Shizhe does not go out of the door, the second door does not step, and it took a month to complete the design of this new CPU.

He named this new CPU Povos (Pentium), which means fast, and compared to the fact that although this x86 processor is only 8 bits, it runs no less than the 16-bit processor in the early days of history, and it runs fast.

In this era, there is no CAD software, the chip design is completely manual to complete, a month of sleepless work, Ling Shizhe was already exhausted, weakly sat on the chair, asked the secretary to call Andy Grove, pointed to the CPU design drawings on the desk that were thousands of pages thick, and said: "This is a new CPU designed for the upcoming PC computer - Povos CPU, you take it to tape-out, if there is a problem, you can fix it yourself, and the chipset has to be redesigned, the previous one can't be used, I'll take care of this task to you, and the operating system will need to be modified so that it can connect seamlessly with this new CPU. Okay, that's all for the appreciation, you go down first, and if I think of something again, I'll inform you. ”

Andy found a piece of brown paper to encapsulate the chip drawings designed by Ling Shizhe, and he said to Ling Shizhe while doing his own work: "Boss, your eyes are red and your face is tired, you should have a good rest, and I will deal with the rest, I will not let you down." ”

The other party didn't reply, and when Grove sealed all the thousands of pages of design drawings, he turned his head to find that Ling Shizhe had fallen asleep in his chair.

Grove didn't dare to wake him up, so he gently went out and called him an assistant from the outside, and the two gently lifted Ling Shizhe up, helped him to the lounge in the inner room, took off his coat and shoes, pulled the quilt and gently covered it, came out of the inner room, and gently closed the door, and finally the two of them left the office with a design drawing.

Ling Shizhe slept for two days, and rested for another week before recovering.

After this incident, Ling Shizhe has urgently felt that the CAD project must be put on the agenda as soon as possible, otherwise no one can afford to rely on manual design of CPUs.

During the recuperation at home, he listed the basic design ideas and basic architecture of CAD software one by one, and handed it over to the software development team in charge of Ollie to be responsible for the development, but what he didn't expect was that he had just asked her to hand over the development plan, and Ollie came in the afternoon.

She held a document in front of Ling Shizhe and said, "Boss, if we want to develop our own CAD software, we must obtain authorization from MIT. ”

"CAD software came out in the 60s, and this ...... It's incredible, isn't it? Ling Shizhe read the information Ollie gave him at a glance and ten lines, and felt very surprised, feeling that his three views had been subverted, could it be because his history had been changed?

At this time, Ollie explained: "CAD is the abbreviation of Puteraideddrafting, which means interactive drawing system, which was proposed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 60s, due to the high cost of hardware facilities at that time, there are currently General Motors and Boeing Airlines in the United States in the development and use of their own. Other companies like Ford, McDonnell Douglas, etc., are purchased from them. ”

It turned out that it had been around for a long time, and I thought history had become unrecognizable. But it's almost the same, since I came to this world, I have long been unrecognizable about the original history of computers, even if something appears in advance, it is normal.

Regrouping his thoughts, Ling Shizhe asked, "Since CAD already exists, can we buy it directly from them instead of developing it ourselves?" ”

"No, we can't use it, one of the CAD they developed is used to design airplanes, the other is used to design cars, and we want to use it to design chips, and we can't use it at all, but your aircraft company can use it then, but Boeing has a very high price, $10 million plus a million dollars a year in royalties."

"Boeing is really black enough, and someone buys it at such a high price?"

"Yes, a lot of powerful aircraft manufacturing companies have bought it, and although it's expensive, for those companies, this software can save them a lot of money and improve efficiency, which is nothing compared to the money saved?"

Ling Shizhe thought for a while and said, "Okay, let's buy it from Boeing, anyway, my aircraft company also needs this software." ”

"No boss, I'm not here today to suggest you buy any software from Boeing, I came today for two things, the first is to tell you that if we want to develop our own CAD, we must get permission from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The second thing, and I'm going to tell you, is that we should design two versions of CAD software, one blade server-based and one PC-based. ”

"Two versions? Give me a reason. ”

Ollie explained: "It's such a boss, the CAD software system developed by Boeing is based on the IBM 360 mainframe, and we have launched the blade server, we should develop a set of application software based on our own server, the design of the aircraft is a complex and huge system engineering, and the CAD software it uses is also very complex, so we must use the blade server as the running platform, but we can develop a PC sub-package, It can connect the blade server and PC with the database to form a complete flight design system. ”

"CAD with CPU design is much simpler, just develop one that can run on a PC, and can be combined with a tower server to run. That's all I came to you today. ”

Aircraft design is an extremely complex process, there are many things to consider, and at the same time, the design of an aircraft needs to be coordinated by many supporting manufacturers, and its CAD can only be done on a supercomputer.

In contrast, the design of the chip is relatively simple, but the current PC technology has not yet reached the level of the future, relying on a PC alone is obviously a bit inadequate, but you can consider using multiple PCs to connect the tower server plus the PC-based database system to form a local area network system, to not lose a good solution.

Saying what she thought in her heart, Ollie's eyes lit up, and she felt that the decisive plan proposed by Ling Shizhe was more mature and reliable than the method she had thought, and took out a pen and recorded them on the paper one by one.

When Ling Shizhe finished speaking, he found that Ollie's notebook was already full of writing, stretched his waist, and saw that the sky was darkening, so he said to Ollie: "Finally finished, my stomach is already rumbling with hunger, you must be the same, go back after eating." ”