Chapter 78: Acting as a Substitute
Zhou Jianhua came to the Jiangnan Hotel at a little more than eight o'clock the next day, waited in the hotel lobby at eight o'clock, then turned upstairs and came to room 312 and knocked on Cliff's door.
Last night, Zhou Jianhua and Wang Xiaozhen had dinner, and after sending her on the tram home, he found a small hotel near the Jiangnan Hotel and stayed there, and it was only a ten-minute walk from the hotel to the Jiangnan Hotel.
"Oh! Good morning! Mr. Zhou, you came very punctually, we are waiting for you! Cliff opened the door and said happily when he saw Zhou Jianhua.
"Good morning! Mr. Cliff, it's a pleasure to see you again! Zhou Jianhua replied politely.
"Mr. Zhou, please come in, I'll introduce you......" Cliff said, turning around and introducing a fair-skinned and thin glasses man in his 30s who followed him:
"This is Mr. Li from Nandu Machine Pump Factory, and he is here to pick us up."
The Mr. Li named Mr. Li Yongping mentioned by Cliff was the assistant director of the Jiangnan Provincial Pump Factory, and because he could speak a few simple words of English, he undertook the task of picking up and accompanying Cliff during this time.
After Zhou Jianhua and Li Yongping introduced each other, the three of them went downstairs to the door of the Jiangnan Hotel and got into a brand-new white Changhe minivan waiting here. The van passed through the central square, turned east, and after ten minutes, the car drove into a compound and stopped in front of the only gray three-story office building in the compound. There are many unit plaques on both sides of the gate in the middle of this building, and there are units such as "Jiangnan Provincial Planning Committee", "Jiangnan Provincial Economic Commission", and "Jiangnan Provincial Machinery Industry Department" at a glance.
The three got out of the car, and Zhou Jianhua followed Cliff and Li Yongping into the building, and went up the spacious staircase to the third floor of the top floor. Walked into a conference room. There were already a dozen people in the conference room. Look at the dress. Most of them should be leaders or professional technicians. When everyone saw Cliff enter, they all politely stood up and greeted Cliff in turn, or nodded their heads in welcome.
At this time, a fair-skinned, plump woman in her thirties with a small white floral scarf on a blue background around her neck greeted her, greeted Cliff with a smile, and began to translate for him.
Cliff also greeted everyone one by one very humbly and politely, and then he introduced Zhou Jianhua to everyone.
When she heard that Zhou Jianhua was a private translator invited by Cliff, the female translator looked at Zhou Jianhua with a slightly embarrassed expression, and then translated Cliff's introduction to Zhou Jianhua to everyone. By the time she finished introducing herself to everyone, her face, which was originally as white as congealed cream, had already flushed with shame.
Zhou Jianhua noticed the embarrassed expression of the female translator, and also realized that his sudden appearance would inevitably bring some trouble to the female translator......
When everyone heard Zhou Jianhua say this, they all looked at him in surprise, and said in their hearts where did this young man come from, and he could speak English. You still know how to use computer technology?!
Zhou Jianhua originally wanted to divide labor with the female translator through this sentence, so as not to let everyone understand that his appearance was because the female translator was incompetent. But he didn't think that this sentence had another effect, and by the time he noticed that everyone was looking at him with surprised eyes, it was too late to change his words.
In fact, this female translator does not have much problem listening and speaking daily words, mainly because the pronunciation is not very accurate and slightly jerky, and she is also slightly dull in listening. Her biggest problem is still in the translation of content in computer technology, because it involves some professional things, she can't understand, and she has no experience in reading some professional acronyms. That's what really bothered Cliff and the rest of you here!
Now this young man is so awesome @ coaxing to say that he mainly does translation in computer technology, which is simply a long drought and a rain in the snow! There are so many technical problems stuck here these days that I haven't been able to understand too well, and some of the problems about the confirmation of the technical indicators of this large computer have seriously affected the process of introducing this computer equipment.
After the female translator and Zhou Jianhua were seated on the left and right of Cliff, a man in his fifties sitting in the middle with a strong leadership structure smiled and asked:
"Xiao Zhou, are you from our Jiangnan Province?"
"I'm from Jiancheng County." Zhou Jianhua replied with a smile.
"Oh...... What school did you graduate from? The leader asked again, since he was a person from a small county under the rule of this province, he had no worries when he asked.
"I didn't go to college...... I am self-taught. Zhou Jianhua replied with a smile that was still neither humble nor arrogant.
"Oh? So how did you come to know each other? The old leader asked casually, but there was a tendency to get to the bottom of it, and he believed that everyone here would want to ask this question.
In this era, although reform and opening up have begun, people's political awareness is still very strong, and few people dare to take the initiative to claim that they have overseas relations in this year, and no one dares to apply to travel abroad or something, so as not to accidentally cause some unnecessary trouble in the future. Now a foreigner has just arrived, and he immediately met such a young man from a small county town in another place, and this young man is also claimed to be self-taught, not only can English but also know how strange is this?
"Huh...... We met yesterday at dinner. I did a translation for him because of the order, and then he invited me over. Zhou Jianhua replied briefly.
"Oh...... That's ......" The old leader nodded slightly, and finally had an explanation for his curiosity, so he looked left and right, and said:
"Let's start now......"
Everyone opened the information in front of them, and everyone followed the questions of the previous day to consult one by one, from the configuration of the computer, hardware functions, software implementation, control environment to the selection of various models of the host and peripherals, the difference in functions and prices, and the guarantee requirements, all kinds of questions were raised.
In fact, most of these problems have already been stated in the project solution provided by Cliff half a month ago, but when they took it to someone to translate, the translation was not good. Because the translator does not understand the computer, in many places due to misunderstanding, the translation is not accurate or even completely wrong, and there are many professional words that cannot be translated, resulting in "blank space" in many places.
In his previous life, although Zhou Jianhua was not a computer major, he was still familiar with the general software and hardware application of computers, and he presided over the research and development of a large number of computer-related software and hardware applications in the high-end intelligent radar system he presided over before the crossing.
Moreover, the design architecture of the mainframe computers of this era is similar to that of the mainframes of the later decades. In particular, the mainframe at hand, named "Systemcircle", is a classic model of the company, which is a successor to the "first computer with compatible instruction sets in history" and "the first mainframe in the world" launched by the company in the mid-60s.
By this time, both hardware and software had matured, and in the coming decades, the technology of the mainframe computers and many servers of the company was also derived from this "Systemcircle" model, so this mainframe computer is also called the ancestor of other mainframes in the next few decades.
Moreover, many operating systems of various computers that will emerge in the future are also derived from the previous console era, and they have very similar principles and genes to each other, and the core technology of this model of mainframe has also laid the foundation for database technology, personal computer trends, the development of the Internet, online shopping and e-business in the future.
For such a well-known computer model, Zhou Jianhua had noticed many IT industry insiders evaluating its various applications when he was studying in his previous life, and he was already familiar with some of its indicators and features.
As a result, today's technical consulting seminar soon became Zhou Jianhua's personal session, and even Cliff was just an ornament.
With his understanding of computer technology and the original English version of the project solution given to him by Cliff, Zhou Jianhua talked eloquently about all kinds of related questions raised by everyone present.
Someone asked: "Xiao Zhou, this information says that the system software of the computer can support multiple programs, and can run up to 15 programs at the same time. ”
"This question has been clearly written in the information." Zhou Jianhua glanced at the data on the data, and then pointed to the data and replied:
"In order to facilitate the management and make full use of the resources of the entire system, the system software is designed to divide the central memory into multiple partitions, which can be divided into up to 15 - see? It says "15partition" - this makes it possible to have different programs running at the same time, each taking up one of the partitions. ”
"Xiao Zhou, we are relatively nervous about foreign exchange now, according to the words in this translated text, we can flexibly combine trade-offs and get the right match, is that so?"
"That's right! This model of computer, it is true that according to the power supply conditions and the corresponding computing speed requirements to determine the demand for memory and hardware combination, if temporarily because of foreign exchange tension, you can buy a set of low-configuration computers, and then expand and upgrade the hardware when the conditions are ripe in the future, so as to achieve the goal of maximizing economic benefits. This time, Zhou Jianhua gave a clear answer without even reading the information - of course, he didn't bother to ask Cliff for his answer. (To be continued......)
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