Chapter 715: The Computer Age

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In the early days of the Sino-German Cold War, due to the lack of funds and hardware technology, the German Union has been in a passive situation in the process of competing with the Chinese Empire for world hegemony.

It wasn't until after China and Germany engaged in space hegemony that the German Union's top brass realized that this huge gap could not be caught up in a short period of time.

However, the competitive Hitler was not willing to follow the ass of the Chinese Empire all the time. Under his call, the German Union continued to carry forward the style of hard work, tightened their belts and fought for hegemony with the Chinese Empire.

Although the scientists of Delian have made a series of achievements in space theory, when it is actually applied to space flight, Delian's hardware facilities are overwhelmed. On the contrary, the Chinese Empire, which was extremely developed in terms of hardware facilities, was the first to put these advanced space theories into practical use.

The reason for this result is that the scientists blame it on the lack of mainframe computer systems.

It turns out that when space theory is applied to actual orbital calculations such as rockets, satellites, and probes, which are beyond the computing power of human beings, it is difficult to do it with paper, pen and brain. In this regard, the Chinese Empire possessed the world's first electronic computer system during World War II. By the post-war fifties, the computer system of the Chinese Empire had entered its second generation. However, due to the serious lack of funds and the lack of attention to the development of computers by the leadership, Delian was still in its infancy in the computer field, and even the first generation of computers in the Chinese Empire could not be manufactured.

Faced with this situation, Hitler finally became anxious and allocated special funds to support the research and development of computer equipment by Delian to support Delian's space development.

With Hitler's strong support, the German Union finally collected computer-related information about the Chinese Empire through various channels, and in 1957, the first large-scale computer for space computing, the "Arrow" computer, was successfully developed. The computer has 7,200 electron tubes and 60,000 crystal diodes, and operates 2,000 times per second.

However, compared to the supercomputers of the Chinese Empire. Delian's arrow computer is too far behind. The first arrow computer was not even as good as the Galaxy A computer built by the Chinese Empire fifteen years ago.

As the first generation of computers, the logic elements of the hardware used vacuum tubes, the main memory used mercury delay lines, the cathode ray oscilloscope electrostatic memory, the magnetic drum, and the magnetic core. The external memory is magnetic tape. These devices are bulky, staggeringly heavy, have particularly high power consumption, and are very poor in reliability. Slow computing speed is actually not high, but it is expensive.

The total weight of the arrow computer manufactured by Delian was as high as 425 tons, and the cost was 8.2 million dragon coins, which was 200 tons heavier than the first computer of the Chinese Empire. The price is four times higher.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the low level of hardware manufacturing in Delianz. The Chinese Empire entered the era of the electronics industry long before World War II, and the electronics industry flourished after World War II. However, the German Union delayed its entry into the electronic age because of the war, and eventually lagged behind the Chinese Empire by at least ten years.

And the Chinese empire has entered the second generation level in the field of computers. The supercomputer Galaxy C-11, used by the representative Royal Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Empire, has achieved a simple operating system and the use of high-level languages and its compiler programs to control the computer, with more than 3 million calculations per second, but the cost is only two-thirds of the first-generation computer, and the volume is seven times smaller.

Although the second generation of computers in the Chinese Empire was still dominated by scientific computing and military affairs processing, with the support of the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao, Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry Group became the first to apply the Galaxy C-type computer to the field of industrial control.

Science doesn't recognize the second unless you're more advanced. According to this convention, the Bundesliga people were left behind from the day they started until the end of the Cold War. It has never been able to catch up with the Chinese Empire in the field of electronic computers.

However, the Delian people eventually put down their face and secretly obtained some advanced electronic computers from Britain through commercial channels. Although these computers were small enough to meet the needs of space computing, the people of Delian quickly disassembled the parts of these small computers and reassembled them into large computers. What is the amount of work during this period? Spell slaughter? But it's much faster than the Dellian people develop their own computers.

However, Delian's industrial manufacturing capacity was not as good as that of the Chinese Empire, and many of its key electronic components had to be secretly smuggled from merchants from the Chinese Empire and its allies. This seriously hindered the development of the German Union itself in the field of computers, and it was ultimately unable to defeat the Chinese Empire.

However, the role of the computer is to calculate. Although Delian lags behind the Chinese Empire in research and development, and even eats the technology that the Chinese Empire spit out, for Delian, they only need to be able to use computers, as long as they can carry out large-scale space orbit calculations and provide accurate orbit data for Delian's space rockets.

Have your own supercomputer system. The progress of the German military in space has significantly accelerated.

Not long after the Chinese Empire realized the exploration of Mars and Venus, Delianz launched the first lunar exploration satellite using the Hercules rocket, and actively launched a manned space and lunar landing program.

The space battle for hegemony is quite consuming of national strength, even the wealthy Chinese Empire, hundreds of rocket launches every year are not eliminated, not to mention the economic conditions are very difficult Delian.

The German Union was dragged into the chariot of space supremacy by the Chinese Empire. As a result, the financial expenditure of the German Union has increased dramatically every year, but it is difficult to meet the huge military budget. In order to solve the problem of military spending, Hitler sometimes had to kill the chickens and eggs, which dealt a heavy blow to the European economy, which had just picked up some improvement.

The space battle for German Union fought to catch up, but it was difficult to surpass the Chinese Empire in a short period of time. Hitler then turned his attention again to the traditional advantage of the German Union, namely the huge tank production capacity.

Under the planned economic system, the main battle tanks equipped by the German army are low cost and large in number. Although in the Transcaucasian War, the German Union's T50 tank lost to the M43 of the Chinese Empire, the superiority of the T50 on the battlefield in numbers and cheapness was highlighted.

Unwilling, Hitler temporarily abandoned his military operations in Eastern Europe and set his sights on the vast lands of Africa.

Since the Chinese Empire monopolized the world's major nuclear fuel production bases, the Chinese Empire forbade the supply of nuclear fuel production bases under its control to the German Union and NATO countries in order to engage in a nuclear arms race with the German Federation. However, the German Union's own nuclear fuel production is limited and cannot support the needs of a large-scale nuclear arms race.

However, in the third year after the war, the German Union discovered uranium deposits deep in the desert of French Algeria, which allowed the German Union to rapidly increase its nuclear power.

The Chinese Empire was so worried about this that in terms of strategic layout, the Chinese Empire sent secret forces to attack the French nuclear fuel base several times and sabotage its uranium mining equipment. Even in order to overthrow the French colonial rule of Algeria, the Chinese Empire supported the Algerian government opposition to launch a coup d'état and armed insurrection with the intention of expelling French power in the region.

The German Federation took this very seriously, and Hitler decided to confront the Chinese Empire again in Africa. Hitler ordered the German allied military industrial complex to export T50 and other main battle equipment to African countries on a large scale, and supported pro-German African countries to attack pro-Chinese African countries, which also subverted the African colonial rule of the Chinese Empire and the Warsaw Pact member states.

The German Union's T50 tank has an incomparable price advantage in Africa, and for the first teams in Africa, the M43 tank of the Chinese Empire is advanced, but it is too expensive to be used in Africa. On the contrary, the German Union's T50 tank is more suitable for the equipment of the armies of poor African countries.

Thus, Delian opened the door to Africa with the export of T50 tanks. The Chinese Empire also tried to control Africa and prevent the influence of the German League in Africa, so the military operations of the two sides in Africa escalated year by year, and finally the forces supported by both sides broke out into war, and Africa was in flames.