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"Rics has an unparalleled advantage compared to CICS. We should start in this regard."

John Cock is trying to persuade the little Watson.

"What are the advantages of RICS compared to CICS?" Little Watson is still very generous in terms of money.

John Cock, born in 1925, obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Dukeuniversity in 1946. After a few years of actual work, he returned to his alma mater to study graduate students.

He entered IBM and became the technical person in charge of the 360 ​​large -scale machine.

And what he is doing now is to develop their own CPU for IBM.

The cooperation with Fairy Tong Company is quite happy, but the Fairchild Corporation has begun cooperation in Motorola, so IBM must develop its own CPU in order to not be subject to people.

"How did Intel suppress the cost to so low?" John Cock investigated for a long time for this problem for a long time.

Although IBM has the ability to produce CPUs, technical reserves are sufficient. Even the copyright of language can be bypassed in front of them.

But there is a problem -the cost of the chip produced by IBM is too high. This problem has always troubled IBM, and even if it is a fairy child company, it cannot compete with Intel in this regard.

Later, after investigation, they found that Intel actually built the factory in Taiwan, low labor costs and production costs, the total cost was suppressed to the lowest.

And one more thing is that Intel's good product rate is very high, because there are very few waste products, so the cost is low. This advantage and advantage cannot be comparable. This is also solved.

Abandoned the previous aluminum crafts, but used the copper process -in fact, the so -called micron process, nano technology refers to the width of these aluminum lines or copper lines.

, But because of the rise in good products, the cost has been reduced.

In terms of production technology, the other party has shook off the IBM level, and the research and development cost of IBM has always been known for its highly high. In terms of cost advantage, there is no comparability compared to the other party.

Then, you have to start from another aspect.

"After studying our CISC system, I found that the simple instructions of the total number of total instructions accounted for 80 in the program call, and the complex instructions of 80 instructions were only 20. Because of this, this is because of this.

We can get the RICS system by streamlining the CISC command. "

The so -called CICS refers to the complicated instruction set computer. The most classic Intel's X86 series is the CICS system. The RICS system refers to streamlined instruction set computers. In the 21st century

The core of IBM is also using Rics.

The number of instructions of a instruction system is limited by the number of instruction operating codes. If the operating code is 8 bits, the number of instructions is up to 256, and the width of the instruction is difficult to increase. Intel's solution is the expansion of the operating code.

After the operation code is the address code, and some instructions do not use the address code or only a small amount of address code. Then, you can extend the operating code to these locations.

Then you can have four different instructions of 00,01,10,11. Now the 11 is reserved and extended the operating code to 4 digits, then you can have 7 instructions

The address code of the four instructions of 1100,1101,1110, 1111 must be two.

Because of this, when the complicated instruction set computer is running, it is necessary to have certain resources to process the addressing and decoding. This is an advantage and a disadvantage.

"Computers using complex instruction systems have a strong ability to process advanced language, which is beneficial to improving the performance of the computer. But this is not absolute. With the development of the times, the CPU will become faster and faster, a lot of large amounts, a lot

Complex instructions, variable instruction lengths, and various addressing methods are the characteristics of CISC, but when the future, this will become an obstacle. The waste of time because of decoding has far exceeded CICS at that time.

The speed advantage that can be brought. At that time, CICS will be gradually eliminated, and RICS will become the mainstream. "

Because the command is simple and direct, the efficiency of RICS will be higher.

"The prospect is very good, but it is actually unlikely ..." Little Watson smiled bitterly, "You should understand the operating system developed by Microsoft?"

Cock hesitated, and then nodded: "I heard it, it is said that this operating system has increased our sales by 30."

"Yes, this is our survey table." Little Watson handed a document to the other party: "According to a survey of customers, 80 customers said that they hope that our next -generation computer can be compatible with Microsoft companies

Software. ""

Although the price of an operating system is $ 29999, the buyers are still rushing.

"They generally feel dissatisfied with the efficiency of 360 large machines, but the favorability of the software remains above 90."

Cock has understood the meaning of Little Watson: "That is, ... have we been abducted?"

Yes, in terms of large -scale machines, Microsoft's products have reached a level of Windows dominated PC industry.

"Microsoft is a software company. Their operating system is just a platform, but with this platform, other products of Microsoft can enter our large machine ..."

This is the most troublesome thing.

With a operating system, it is impossible to monopolize so many markets, but through the application under this operating system, it can achieve this effect.

IBM develops software by itself?

Just kidding, IBM has never done such a thing, and even though IBM developed its own products, Microsoft's products have already cultivated a certain "loyalty" in the customer base. If the new generation of IBM's large machine

With the RICS system, most of the previous things must be compatible, and at that time ... Orange will take it in.

Although I don't quite understand why Catherine let the previous Apple company divide the current oranges and Apple, the other party's threat to himself still exists.

"So the best time we launched RICS is that when we encounter bottlenecks, we can not only stabilize the market, but also counterattack the other party's market." Cock suddenly thought of a little.

"Hmm ..." When I heard this, Little Watson couldn't help nod.

Indeed, when the CICS architecture can no longer bring a greater speed to the computer, then RICS can be played

"We can put it into use in Japan first."

After entering Japan, little Watson discovered that this is a really good place. Because there are no competitors, there is nothing to worry about.

Although some Japanese manufacturers have begun to launch a new generation of products, these Japanese are vulnerable to IBM's huge financial resources. History is 30 years ahead of schedule, but IBM still relies on its strong power to forcefully

Entering the market alive and well.

Compared with the United States, Japan is really a virgin land. It is perfect for experimenting with new RICS mainframes. If the market response is good, it will be put into use in the US market soon. If the market response is not good,

Then your loss won't be too great.

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"The game is about to start..."

Arriving at the venue in Los Angeles, Catherine looked at the busy workers and couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, it looks like there will be more people this year than in previous years." Although the game hasn't started yet, there are already a lot of people standing outside.

"They must be game enthusiasts, right?" These people must have come to see the venue.

"Probably..." Elsa looked back at the venue that had been completed and was being decorated.

After the competition, this place will become a video game center, and the first batch of 16-bit arcade machines will be launched here.

"It's a pity that there are still many games that can't be played now..." Catherine shook her head.

"We have the most advanced gaming equipment, so you can play whatever you want, right?" Elsa didn't know what Catherine was referring to, and she didn't know anything about "CS" or "StarCraft"...

"The game I imagined is not like this." Catherine looked at the people on the street, and then gestured: "Think about it, the picture of the game should be exactly the same as reality, and it would be best to have a full body that is the same as glasses.

The orientation super display... well, it also has gesture sensing capabilities, so the system can recognize every move..."

"Maybe it can be realized in a hundred years?" Elsa also learned what Catherine said.

"Don't you think it's amazing?"

The most critical part seems to have not been noticed.

"It is indeed amazing, but it is unlikely to be realized. It seems to have a stronger sense of science fiction. If it is put into reality..."

Somewhat unlikely?

"But I think my idea is more likely to be realized first than the US military's space programs."

According to Elsa, isn't the Pentagon more science fiction?

"Maybe it will be realized in 2001..." Elsa suddenly thought of "2001: A Space Odyssey" that she had watched not long ago.

"Okay... pretend I didn't say that."

(My idea is actually more practical, okay?)

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I finished the exam yesterday...I don't know what to say...

Tomorrow, I will continue the exam the day after tomorrow, please wish me well...

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