Blooming America

Chapter 105: Phoenix

Blizzard’s game development is probably the smoothest company.

　　 Blizzard’s business is mostly limited to the hardware equipment of the computer system.

Because of system limitations, current games are very simple. Although the maximum capacity of the cassette can reach 16KB, which is 128Kb (converted to 1:8, B and b), but the games produced by Blizzard rarely exceed 8KB.

　　 What I have to say is that programmers today are quite different from those more than ten years later.

　　 In fact, Catherine's C language and program coding have completely changed the electronics industry at this time.

　　 Take DEC as an example. The PDP-8 computer they developed has a memory size of 4KB. If you want to enter a program, the keyboard is amazing.

　　——The punched paper or card must be used for the computer to read the holes before the data can be recorded.

　　 In Catherine's view, this kind of computer is not called a computer at all, it is almost the same as a cheating father.

　　 This is why Catherine’s personal computer became so popular after it came out. The slow speed of programming and inputting instructions in the way of punching is simply outrageous.

　　 Using a teletypewriter to pretend to be a keyboard seems to work, but there is absolutely no better computer tailored by Catherine for individual users-even though it is only a large Wenquxing.

　　 When Blizzard was just founded, the programmers who were recruited were still at a loss.

　　 They are holding their own small boxes, which contain empty codes made into paper tapes and cards.

　　 Programmers with dozens of codes are already good, while programmers with hundreds of codes are very few.

　　 They thought that their coding could do their best, but after they came here, they suddenly discovered that all the coding papers in their hands could be thrown away.

　　 A computer that uses a piece of paper as an input device? Resolutely don't!

　　 Then, Catherine did one more thing that made these programmers stunned, that is, she wrote the source code of the C language and a series of things that must be noted into a booklet, and then gave them to use.

　　 This makes programmers a little confused.

　　 In fact, in the "future" of 1981, the world's first software patent application was approved. Prior to this, the source code of the software should be copyrighted. In other words, it is illegal to use other people's code directly. Although a lot of the source code was a bonus at that time, if you sell the source code or the generated program again, there will be legal troubles.

　　 Those programmers hold the copyrighted software code, thinking that they can make a difference, but after coming to Blizzard, they find that things are completely different from what they imagined!

　　 In fact, after the software was patented, "Zeng" created a large number of software giants, such as Microsoft, which took advantage of this.

　　 However, in the process of protecting software patents, there have been cases of overcorrection. Once there was a C compiler manufacturer that registered the names of library functions as patents, and other companies could only prefix the names of functions provided by themselves.

Most of the games made by Blizzard are based on C language and assembly language.

　　Although this kind of game is almost incomparable with "Super Mario" and the like, it is highly playable.

　　 Especially games like "Snake" and "Tetris".

　　 After playing a few popular games on the Xiaobawang platform, Catherine began to think about other things.

　　 "Saunders, I think we should set up another department to develop software." Catherine said.

　　 Sanders nodded, it seemed necessary.

　　 "But where do you put this department? Blizzard seems a little inappropriate."

　　 Catherine nodded.

　　 "Let’s put it under Apple. This time we are not only going to develop software, but to develop another thing."

　　 Catherine smiled mysteriously.

　　 "The other one?"

"Yes, we need an operating system. It is not a simple program like a Microsoft computer, but a software platform that allows all our programs to run on it. Through this platform, we call system resources, Then run the programs we need, and this platform will become the foundation of everything."

　　 Sanders barely understood.

　　 "The programmers here have basically adapted to the programming of C language and assembly language. We can extract a batch of software developed in the past from Blizzard. I think there is no problem at all."

　　 It is true that outside programmers still need to adapt, but programmers who have been in Blizzard for several years have no longer that worry.

　　 Catherine has no advantage in traditional industries, because the United States is one of the world's hegemons. And their speed of technological development is one of the world's leading.

　　 Catherine has no confidence in this aspect.

But in the current high-precision, especially in the electronics industry, Catherine’s role is really extraordinary ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ because she can help technicians point out the big direction, so that they can avoid detours, and Catherine can still use My own knowledge of the electronic field, to tell them some problems they may encounter.

　　 "By the way, what is our operating system called?"

　　 Catherine stopped suddenly.

　　DOS?

　　 is too tacky!

　　 Since it is its own operating system, it doesn't have a popular name, how can it be? ! How could it be called "Disk Operating System" (DOS)?

　　 "Before we produced the Z80, there used to be a CPU plan that had been abandoned, called FanHan, how about it?"

　　 Some pinyin feeling, Catherine shook her head. Such a name is totally inaudible.

　　 called Windows?

　　 Catherine will never do it.

　　 can be called anything, only this scam can't work.

　　Unix? Linux?

　　 No, it's a bit tacky.