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Chapter 175: Knock down the beep-beep boy who came back

The C.I.A. didn't seem to be looking for a scapegoat, much to Catherine's relief, and the video communications would soon be ready to be set up. Where are the novels updated the fastest? Please look for the biquge.infobiquge.info of Aishang Novel Network

Although it is a video call, in fact, it uses the principle of live TV broadcasting, and the camera is placed on top of the screen.

But it didn't work out well, at least it didn't take long for the third batch of budgets to come down, this time with a total budget of $50 million.

Although Catherine's company is already very large, in front of traditional conglomerates, it is only a "small business", and it can't even enter their sight.

Catherine's company is mostly in the "seeding" stage, most of the projects are under research, and the vast majority of its own income is almost entirely invested in R&D and expansion of production at this time. As long as it reaches the stage of "harvest", Catherine believes that her company will be able to soar

The matter of Soviet spies seems to be still being discussed at the top, and Catherine chose to return to California.

The Internet network requirements are not as high as Skynet's, at least the trial is completely problematic.

At this time, Catherine suddenly realized that she had forgotten something......

After thinking about it for a long time, Catherine suddenly realized - she didn't seem to make a movie this year?

"Forget it, let's shoot again when we have time......"

Back at her home, Catherine picked up the Forbes.

In 1965, General Motors had the second largest total revenue, ExxonMobil's 10.8 billion.

The 500th place is 97 million of Defengjie.

Last year, Catherine earned about $50 million — if you don't count the Pentagon's budget.

The most profitable industry in those years was first automobiles, then oil, and Catherine's market was not yet fully developed.

But this year's format is different, Seymour. Clay developed a supercomputer for $9.98 million — and Catherine specifically lowered the price by another $10,000.

Catherine named this supercomputer "Celeron", Celeron supercomputer, which is a nice name.

The annual output of the Celeron series is only 10~20 units for the time being, because the workers are not familiar with it. The core of the use is the technology has been proficient Z80, the price is relatively low, the initial research and development cost is 8 million US dollars, the cost is also about 8 million US dollars, if it is put in Taiwan to produce, and after mass production, the net profit of this supercomputer is about 2 million US dollars, compared to IBM, the profit is not big at all, but Catherine understands very well that she is now to seize the market, and caring about this profit will only make it more difficult for her to occupy the market.

The Celeron supercomputer, which operates at 1,200 operations per second, was launched in August, and as soon as it was launched, it was well received and orders poured in, quickly surpassing eight copies — a small number of "8" that represents a net profit of $16 million.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, computers with the Z80+ as the core and 1,600 operations per second have also begun to be launched on the market. The price was $12.99 million, the net profit was around $3 million, and soon, the computer also received orders for 4 units.

But it's not just this one that makes Catherine happy, it's something else - the beep boy.

Naturally, the Pip-Boy still can't be a personal piece of equipment now, both in terms of volume and battery life, and it's not feasible now.

So the first thing that the Pip-Boy needs to develop is the on-board version.

The Pip-Boy uses the military version of the Z80, and although the basic number is the same as that of the regular version of the Z80, the military version has lower energy consumption and more stable performance.

Since it is for the military, it doesn't matter if the software is more cumbersome.

"A prototype of the in-car version of the Pip-Boy in collaboration with Kate, Intel and Apple has been completed."

Not long after she returned, Elsa told Catherine good news.

"Really?"

Catherine was delighted.

Then, when Catherine saw the real thing, she was speechless with astonishment.

For the car version of this Pip-Boy, it's so angry and funny.

It's a computer with eight Z80 cores, 1MB of RAM, cartridge readers, and tape copying devices, costing up to $100,000.

It seems a little inappropriate to describe it as a car version, which is more like a car mobile workstation.

Because eight CPUs are used, the programming requirements are high.

The Phoenix operating system developed for this computer, as well as the office software, also needed to be tailor-made.

Such a version makes the so-called Pip-Boy bigger than Catherine's Microsoft II-type computer, and in fact, Catherine wants to have a very small and light Pip-Boy.

The technician was completely wrong in the direction, and Catherine almost felt like she wanted to hit her head.

"Redo it all, tear it all down, and redo it"

Catherine shook her head.

"But...... This is an in-vehicle computer developed for the military, and this is the only way to do what we need......" the technician argued.

"Not at all, since it's military, the compatibility issue doesn't need to be considered at all, because there is no third party here. At the same time, we don't have to think about some big software, what is that kind of thing on a car? Playing games? Well, who designed this thing? ”

Catherine finally couldn't help it.

"Kenneth. Blue. Thompson. "I don't know where a voice came from.

Catherine felt the name familiar.

"Call him to me."

Soon, a scruffy young man came at a trot.

"You're Ken. Thompson? Catherine asked.

"Yes, miss." He didn't seem to react, still smiling.

"This ...... Did you design the Pip-Boy? Catherine asked.

He nodded, then still smiling: "Actually, I came up with it with Dennis. At that time, everyone happened to have no idea, so we came up with an idea. ”

"Dennis?"

"Dennis. McAlistair. Ricky. ”

He said.

"Dennis. Ricky? ”

Willing. Thompson nodded.

Catherine, on the other hand, was stunned for a moment......

The designer of the C language?

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

"Wait, how did you come up with the idea of developing a computer like this? By the way, where's Dennis? Catherine felt a little confused.

"I am, miss." A technician raised his hand, and walked over.

"Actually, I wrote a game about space travel, and it turned out that computers are a bit slow nowadays, so we ......"

"So you're just going to do what you want your computer to do?" Catherine finally understood what was going on.

The two looked at each other awkwardly, and then nodded helplessly.

Catherine walked over and turned on her computer, only to find that it had a strange operating system installed, completely different from her own Phoenix.

"What is this?"

"Oh, this is what I wrote, because to get the most out of 8 CPUs, Phoenix is not suitable, they can only support two cores, so I wrote an operating system."

"What's this thing called?"

"Brian said the system was so bad that he just called it Unics, so that's what we called it."

"Brian? Who? ”

At this moment, another programmer walked out.

"I'm Brian. Cranehan, Miss. ”

At this time, Catherine was already sure and affirmed, and the three people in front of her were even the three in the C language......

That's right, it's them

"You ...... Come to my office tomorrow morning, and I'll talk to you about something. ”

The three of them were shocked, could it be that they were going to expel themselves?

For them, Intel is a holy place, and if they are fired, there is nothing worse in the world.

"But, Miss......"

"Okay, we'll talk about it tomorrow, OK?" Catherine still scared them.

1MB of RAM?

It's all money, it's a waste

Scare and scare them, is a must.

As for the Pip-Boy......

There was no way, and in the end, Catherine went into battle in person.

An octa-core processor? Dismantled the core of the order change.

1MB of RAM? It is enough to swap out 64KB

The current in-vehicle version does not require a real-time depiction of the terrain or complex calculations.

The main function of such a computer is to use the computer to communicate with each other, transfer data, and process and communicate with each other.

The wireless transmission of digital signals, Motorola is about to solve it, and this is not a problem.

With a small 7-inch screen, you don't even need to use the Phoenix operating system.

The main function of this kind of computer is completely different from that of a Microsoft computer

In Catherine's paper, one of the main functions of such a car-like beep boy is in the topographical depiction.

Ground-based radar is used in conjunction with a computer to depict the map in the system in real time.

Unlike cameras, such equipment requires depicting terrain that cannot be seen with the naked eye, and at the same time, it must also be able to realize radar sweeping and forwarding, so the graphics requirements for computers are very high, and it is basically impossible to do it now.

So, Catherine now focuses her attention on something else.

Replacing the clutter with a flat display image would greatly simplify the work, and Catherine believes that such a superior product will easily be popular.

It is entirely feasible to be able to turn the original instrument cluster into a digital display.

Of course, the operating system needs to be completely rewritten.

But it seems that the researcher's eight-core also has a useless?

As she was planning, Catherine suddenly had an idea......

For example, for inside the fire control system?

If such a computer was installed in a tank or helicopter, that would seem good?

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