Chapter 47: Every step is thoughtful

"Thank you very much for your generosity, but I'm sorry I don't think we need it for a while, I think your computers have been designed from the beginning to be easy for non-computer professionals to use.

However, for us this is not actually a product worth owning, because the hard disk is almost full of programs, so that the computer itself limits us to maximize its performance, which makes the program we edit as long as it is slightly larger, it can not run well! Unless we remove the configured system, but I guess it's not easy......

And you mentioned in the press conference that you used the C++ language in the design of the operating system, which is also a bit unfamiliar to us, although you introduced that this language evolved from the C language, but it will inevitably cause us to fall into some confusion for quite some time until we have fully mastered the language! ”

As a computer professional, Professor Lawrence certainly has his own professional opinions.

Although the computer products of Feiyue Technology have lowered the starting point of people's use of computers to a very low level, because the operation of the system itself needs to occupy a large amount of storage resources in the computer, and the mastery and use of the command unit is also a kind of torture, at least for the current operators.

In this era when memory is humble and memory is more pitiful, it is very necessary to strictly compress every byte, and the system and application software designers of Feiyue Technology must try to reduce the burden of the written program in an all-round way, so that the computer can run more efficiently.

Although the computer of Feiyue Technology has successfully installed the windows system and more than a dozen practical small software into a hard disk with a storage space size of only 5M, it also makes the storage space left for computer users very limited.

Therefore, although the personal computer of Feiyue Technology is definitely an epoch-making product, which has greatly increased the popularity of personal computer use, it is not up to the level of IBM in terms of computer operation efficiency.

Therefore, until the capacity of the hard disk can continue to expand, these shortcomings are a kind of hard injury for professional computer enthusiasts.

Hearing Professor Lawrence's words, Yao Fei could only express his helplessness, things in this world are already difficult to reconcile, what they need to do is to cater to the preferences and tastes of most people!

THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF COMPUTER DEVELOPMENT, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY, EVEN IF MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS SYSTEM ALMOST DOMINATED 99% OF THE WORLD'S COMPUTERS, IN THE EYES OF PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER WORKERS, OPEN SOURCE UNIX AND LINUX ARE MORE WORTHY OF THEIR TRUST.

Therefore, in the current situation, Yao Fei has only one purpose, that is, to circle money, and constantly circle money.

Only when a large amount of money has been accumulated in his hand, then Yao Fei's various money-burning plans can be continued, and then more money will be circled for himself, thus forming a virtuous circle of funds. Totally unnecessary!

"Professor, you have a point, but I think that no matter what kind of computer it is, it is just a tool to serve us humans, and as long as this tool can be recognized and accepted by the public, then it will be successful.

Similarly, our company's computer has greatly reduced the requirements of computer products for users and meets the needs of consumers, so this is our goal for us to achieve, but we will continue to work hard to optimize and upgrade the computer system, and look forward to the further development of hard disk capacity......"

Professional courtesy, this is handy for Yao Fei.

"Well, any product ultimately needs to be measured by the market, as long as there are more people who buy it, the product can be sold, this is the ...... of success"

As a professor, Lawrence also understands the laws of the market.

"That's true, if you need any help in the future, please feel free to contact us......"

I chatted with Professor Lawrence in the shade of the campus for more than an hour, after all, air conditioning was still a rarity at this time, and it was still far from universal popularity......

After a conversation with Lawrence, although there was no constructive advice on technology, it gave Yao Fei some inspiration, he used to ignore the software factor too much, thinking that as long as he opened his golden finger, C++ could not be on JAVA, JAVA was not good, and Eclipse and C#, etc., various levels of system software application software were not easy to come by......

However, the limitations of the current era have given Yao Fei a blow to the head, this is not the era of GB-level storage in the future, and the space required for the operation of the system is completely negligible.

The problem of personal computers is now in front of Yao Fei, and at present, most of the hardware has to be purchased externally, especially in the near future, when it is difficult to make breakthroughs in the capacity of storage devices.

Optimizing the system and slimming it down as much as possible while maintaining the existing functions is a problem that Feiyue Technology's next-generation computer products must solve.

Of course, another way to alleviate the flaws caused by system resources on top of the existing configuration is to use the oldest and original pure machine language.

Machine language is a collection of machine instructions that can be directly recognized and executed by the computer expressed in binary code, and it is the operation function given to the computer by the designer of the computer through the hardware structure of the computer.

However, to write a program in machine language, the programmer must first memorize all the instruction code and the meaning of the code.

When programming, the programmer has to handle the storage allocation, input and output of each instruction and each data, and also has to remember the state of the unit of work used in each step of the programming process, which is a very tedious job.

Moreover, the time spent writing the program is often dozens or hundreds of times the actual running time, because the program is all 0 and 1 instruction code, the intuitiveness is poor, and it is easy to make mistakes.

Even if Yao Fei didn't want to smash the tens of millions of dollars in the company's accounts and invited dozens or hundreds of machine language experts in one go, he didn't dare to pack a ticket for these experts to translate the existing computer operating system with machine code completely and correctly......

Not to mention the time it takes, even the amount of engineering is unimaginable, nearly a million lines of C language and C++ mixed into code, which has to be translated into machine code, spare that group of poor machine language experts, if you really want to implement it, these experts will probably not see the blue sky and warm sunshine for at least a year.

Even if you take another 10,000 steps back, these people have really successfully translated the operating system, so the next system optimization and upgrade design, coupled with the development of hard disk technology, is Feiyue Technology always going to use such a primitive method? It's not about doing things, it's just the rhythm of death!

In addition, the programmers in his company are basically young people, and the machine code is a bit old for him, not to mention that he is used to using the C++ that Yao Fei built for them, and he is not interested in machine languages......