The twenty-first day of the first month of the sixth year of the Grand Duke.

March 1, 2046 in the Gregorian calendar.

In response to the Fengtian Hall of the New Forbidden City in Tianfu, Zhu Jingyuan held the first court meeting of the New Year.

The first court meeting of the year is a ceremonial court, where the top managers of all aspects of the Ming Dynasty gather together to meet the emperor after the start of the New Year.

After the mountain call long live, everyone respectfully asked the emperor to mourn.

Zhu Jingyuan looked down without any emotion, and most of the officials were wearing normal official uniforms of the previous dynasty.

A group of veteran officials led by Shen Fu, the great uncle, wore plain clothes, and they had been high-ranking officials in Zhu Zhongliang's court.

Shen Fu was originally a Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and he often had the opportunity to meet Zhu Zhongliang.

They are all Zhu Zhongliang's former courtiers.

According to the traditional etiquette, they were to continue to wear it this way for twenty-seven months, but according to the new rule it was changed to thirty-six days.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't say much, let them all sit down, and began to arrange and confirm the routine.

The sixth year of the Grand Duke is a relatively important year.

Many of the things that Zhu Jingyuan arranged in the first year of the Great Duke should have been completed in about the fifth year of the Great Duke.

However, in order to prepare for war, the country's resources and forces have been massively shifted to the war side, and many research and development and construction that have nothing to do with the war have been slowed down.

The policy direction of the imperial court was adjusted again in the second half of the fifth year of the Great Duke, and the research and development and construction in all aspects were also resumed and accelerated again.

At the end of the meeting, the managers of each section returned to their posts and organized their work in their institutions.

The central court of the Ming Dynasty once again resumed normal operation.

Zhu Jingyuan returned to the harem after the court meeting, and received the worship of Judy Uranium and Judy Plutonium in the Qianqing Palace.

Judy Uranium and Judy Plutonium are about to officially start training, and they came here today to say goodbye to their father.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the two sons in front of him, as well as the grandson and granddaughter held by the woman next to them, and his mood was a little more uplifted.

My grandfather has passed away, but my children and grandchildren are still growing, and the continuation of the family and biology is prosperous.

Zhu Jingyuan patted his two sons on the shoulder, said a few words of encouragement to them, and hugged their four children.

After saying goodbye to her father, Judy Uranium took the whole family to Zhoushan Military Port to report.

Then, according to the arrangement, he boarded the Huguang battle command ship and began his service as a junior officer.

Judy Plutonium doesn't have to leave Ying Tianfu for the time being.

But I will have to leave school in the future, and I will not have the opportunity to meet Zhu Jingyuan often.

Judy Plutonium took her family and moved to the southernmost part of Yingtian New Town, which is also the southernmost "semiconductor factory" under the jurisdiction of Jiangpu County.

The semiconductor factory is not a factory, but a place name similar to the glass factory.

Since five years ago, it has been announced that the semiconductor industry, which is directly led by the Semiconductor Division and vigorously developed and built, is mainly concentrated in this place.

This place was also carved out from the original Shimoi Town, and the "Semiconductor Factory" was established as an urban division at the township and city level.

Judy Plutonium took the letter of appointment from the imperial court and found the location of "Yingtian Microchip", a subsidiary of the New Industry Group.

This Yingtian Microchip is a factory in the conventional sense.

When Judy Plutonium reported to the factory, the shopkeeper of Yingtian Microchip was obviously a little surprised.

The prince, who had just started his practical training in governance, was put directly into the factory, which seemed to have never happened.

In the past, it was not that there was no prince to manage the factory, but it was generally in charge of it during local training.

Rather than simply sending it directly to the factory for training.

However, His Majesty the Grand Duke often does things unexpectedly, and the tradition of the new Ming Dynasty is to prohibit anyone from interfering in the practical training of governance, so the shopkeeper does not dare to say anything.

But the shopkeeper didn't have any opinions in his heart.

The prince who was able to complete the education of the reserve position with good grades when he was just nineteen years old is a newcomer who will not do anything too much.

The princes who have a bad brain and do not study seriously will be eliminated at the education stage and will not be sent to the stage of practical training in governance.

Judy Plutonium also has computer-related expertise, which is not easy to find in today's society.

Even if you recruit a newcomer, you won't lose at all.

The Ming Dynasty did not allow anyone to interfere with the practical training of governance, which meant that the princes who participated in the governance should be regarded as ordinary subordinates.

The problem of arranging work, although it does not need to be deliberately aggravated, does not need to be taken care of either.

So the shopkeeper took Judy's plutonium and assigned him to the testing department.

Judy Plutonium was very interested in this new job.

Then he quickly regretted it.

It's not that I regret coming here for training, but I regret not coming here sooner.

The large-scale computers used in schools, and even the various traditional computers used in the Ming court, are likely to be completely outdated.

A new computer replacement is about to begin.

Yingtian Microchip's factory, which is responsible for R&D and testing, is miniature semiconductor integrated circuit chips.

This is a completely new computer chip.

Taking advantage of the special properties of silicon, a large number of switching circuits can be arranged in a concentrated manner on a very small carrier.

The supporting "Yingtian Silicon Crystal" lithography plant has realized the relevant technology.

At present, the chip has been designed and continues to be produced on a small scale for application testing, codenamed "83".

Meaning an eight-bit processor, which is currently the third modified version.

It has 8-bit computing and data bandwidth, and has 4,000 transistors inside, capable of completing 80,000 calculations per second.

This is not a high number on a mainframe computer, and it can even be considered very outdated.

But the size of this chip is only the size of a mahjong, and it is only the size of a thumb.

And a regular computer is at least the size of a large wardrobe.

"83" is still only an experimental chip.

With mass production as the goal, the chip code name "Sixteen Two", that is, the second revised version of the sixteen-bit processor, the specifications have been greatly improved again.

Sixteen-two will have 40,000 transistors, with sixteen bits of data and compute bit width, and a speed of one million calculations per second.

This calculation speed has equaled the main computing machines being used by various departments of the Ming Dynasty.

The main body of those machines is the size of a wall!

The efficiency of this kind of miniature integrated computing chip has been subversively improved compared with traditional transistor computers.

They can be used to build larger computing machines with higher computing power.

But Judy Plutonium also feels that the microchip has another, perhaps just as important, role to play.

It is with this chip as the core to make a computer that is small enough.

This small computer can be used inside a normal office or even on a desk.

In the past, computers were mostly used by large manufacturers and various yamen that needed computing power.

This kind of miniaturized computer can be sold to small and medium-sized manufacturers in the private sector.

There could be a very huge market here.

Judy Plutonium even considered whether she could keep her computer on her bedroom desk.

This is also the idea that excites Judy Plutonium the most.

Judy Plutonium himself is not very interested in business, but he has mastered professional skills and skills in the learning stage, so he naturally considers this aspect of the problem.

Judy Plutonium's own primary concern is actually the use of computers for her own personal use.

Judy Plutonium is a prince, and at the same time has talent in this field, and has enough ability, and there is no need to shy away from her own ideas.

After Judy Plutonium was brewing for a few days, she directly found the shopkeeper of Yingtian Microchip and explained her idea.

The factory shopkeeper was shocked when he heard this.

Not surprised by Judy's plutonium conception itself, but that it coincides with some people's assumptions.

So the shopkeeper made a phone call to the General Administration, applied to confirm some things, and then took Judy Plutonium into the secret laboratory.

The shopkeeper showed Judy Plutonium a small personal computer that was still under development and debugging.

The appearance of this computer is very similar to Zhu Jingyuan's personal computer in his previous life, and it is also very clearly divided into several parts.

It's just that compared to later computers, every part of this machine is much heavier and much larger.

Of course, compared to the original computers in this world, they are many times smaller and more refined.

A main chassis is about one meter long and wide, and about thirty centimeters thick.

A monitor that is a specially made television set.

A typical keyboard.

Next to the keyboard is a small box with a round front and a back, and like the keyboard, there is a cable dragged behind it, and there are two buttons on it.

The shopkeeper of Yingtian Microchip turned on a computer and showed Judy Plutonium the functions and usage of this small computer.

The parameters of the computer are not important, but the shopkeeper still said it first.

The code name of this generation of computers is Sixteen A.

Using a sixteen-twelve-chip with a speed of one million calculations per second.

The ledger has a capacity of 65,536 words, which is equivalent to 64K running memory.

The bottom account has a capacity of 32,768 words, which is equivalent to 32K read-only memory.

The library capacity is 16.77 million words, which is equivalent to the capacity of a hard disk of 16M.

The basic parameters of this computer are exactly the same as those of the Type 3 general-purpose silicon chip computer five years ago.

But five years ago, the size of the three-type computer was made up of several large cabinets that occupied a wall.

Now this 16-type computer is the size of a small cabinet.

Hard drives, which used to occupy several large cabinets, have now been miniaturized and crammed into the chassis.

The one-meter-wide case can be placed next to a desk, and the monitor and keyboard can be placed on top of the desk.

However, the biggest difference between this computer and the original mainframe computer is the new way of operating this personal computer.

The Sixteen has a basic graphical interface.

There is also a newly designed input device with a graphical interface - a mouse.

That is, the box that drags the cable, and it can be rolled by rubbing against the table with the scroll wheel at the bottom, which can move the pointer position on the display.

By clicking the two buttons above, you can select and confirm the function.

This thing was made according to the instructions of His Majesty the Grand Duke, and it was directly named the mouse by His Majesty the Grand Duke at that time.

It is indeed an apt name, itself like a rat with a tail, and the most important function is the cursor for movement and confirmation.

On this basis, the computer here is also connected to the "Daming computer machine and data interconnection line network" system in debugging.

Abbreviated as "Daming Internet".

The system will use special cables to connect Daming's main computing centers so that they can exchange data with each other and even work together.

It will be tested for final functionality on a personal computer.

This thing is obviously the Internet of later generations.

The current full name of this thing may seem a little abstract to locals, including Judy Plutonium, but it is easy to understand.

It's a summary of what it actually does.

Of course, it seems a bit abstract to modern people, but it can be understood in an instant when it is abbreviated.

Judy Plutonium, who knew and experienced all this, felt the shock like never before.

It's like when Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, experienced Xerox's Alto computer in 1979.

The combination of the graphical user interface and the mouse gave Jobs a great shock.

When Jobs returned to the company, he quickly decided that he wanted to apply the design to his Apple computer.

Judy Plutonium's feelings at this time may have been stronger than Jobs's at that time.

Judy Plutonium learned about the existence of microchips and thought that such key chips could be used to make small computers.

However, there is no idea of how to design, how to manufacture, what accessories are needed, and how to design the corresponding software.

There has never been anything like it in this world before.

But now the sixteen Jiajia that Zhu Diyu sees seems to be the complete body of this kind of functional goal.

Because the personal computers and equipment designed by Zhu Jingyuan are more mature and complete than what Jobs saw at the beginning.

There is also a feat of direct cooperation with the Internet system.

Judy Plutonium feels that this 16-A computer, in all aspects of its design and cooperation with the Internet, can be said to be exquisite and incredible.

It's as if it's been tempered countless times.

Judy Plutonium sighed from the bottom of her heart, her father is really a genius.

After visiting and learning about personal computers and internet systems, then Judy Plutonium's job also changed.

Begin to be directly responsible for the post-commissioning of these devices.

The development of the two systems is now in the final commissioning phase.

By the second half of this year at the latest, personal computers will be in mass production at the same time as the official version of the 16-bit processor.

Then the Daming Internet was officially deployed.

First of all, it was delivered to the Ming Emperor, the Wenhua Hall and the Cabinet, the Wuying Hall and the Military Aircraft Department, the Department of General Administration, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Taxation, etc.

Subsequently, with the continuous increase of production capacity, the scope of use will be gradually expanded.

The functions that Judy plutonium directly touches are all things that have been basically formed.

Judy Plutonium feels like she's constantly being exposed to new uses of various computers.

Judy Plutonium feels more and more that the combination of the mouse and the graphical interface has made the computer more difficult to use.

Even people who don't know anything about computers can get their hands on this professional device as long as there is enough guidance on the graphical interface.

The big question is, what can ordinary people without relevant knowledge do with this kind of computer?

As a more powerful electronic calculator and ledger?

This is of course a very important feature.

However, Judy Plutonium herself is more inclined to be truly personal, or life-oriented.

and not the calculation and recording of the nature of the work.

So Judy Plutonium began to think about what life functions a personal computer at home could achieve.

Judy Plutonium's first thought was to transfer the functions of various existing life and entertainment equipment to personal computers as a whole.

These include radios, tape recorders, music players, PA systems, televisions, telephones, and more.

Radios and telephones seem to be relatively easy to implement, just make the corresponding circuits and components into modular accessories and install them in the computer host.

But the recording and playback machine is a bit troublesome, mainly in terms of storage.

In terms of storage principles, a computer's hard disk seems to be able to store sound and pictures, but its capacity is obviously too small.

Hard disks are too expensive for tape, and the space that can be read at any time cannot be used for low-level information such as video and sound.

So make a tape recording and playback device and put it in your computer?

Judy Plutonium soon felt that it was indeed feasible to do so, but it always felt that it did not make much sense.

Tape recording and playback equipment, as well as the addition of features such as radio and radio in front.

It's the equivalent of cramming all kinds of machines into a computer case, which will obviously further increase the size of the computer host.

At the same time, the final functional device is the original tape recorder and other equipment itself.

It's just a matter of using the screen on the motor computer instead of manually pressing the play button of the recorder.

It's certainly not completely meaningless, but it's not what Judy Plutonium wants.

What Judy Plutonium is looking for is the life function that the computer can realize independently.

Moreover, these things are not part of their job.

At present, the main body of the test is the computer, and the development of supporting hardware equipment is the follow-up work of other manufacturers.

So Judy Plutonium came up with a little game.

It's still an online game.

Let two people who are not together play Go through the Internet.

Developing new features on this computer can also be considered a typical test project.

Because computer-related departments also continue to use computers.

The implementation of the Go function is probably the easiest thing in the world.

Draw the grid and add black and white.

There are only two colors, and the picture is still static, which is much simpler than minesweeping.

It may be a bit troublesome to make a stand-alone game, and it is necessary to make a chess library, and at the same time, it must have a certain amount of computing power to support it.

But it's easy to make an online battle, and the opponent is directly another real person.

The computer itself is only responsible for counting the number of pieces on both sides.