Blooming America

Chapter 75

a It seems that there is no plan to find a scapegoat, which made Catherine breathe a sigh of relief, and the video communication can be set up soon.

Although it is a video call, in fact, the principle of live TV is adopted, and the camera is placed on the top of the screen.

But the effect was not bad. At least it didn't take long for the third batch of budgets to come down. The total budget this time was 10,000 U.S. dollars.

Although Catherine's company is already very large, in the face of traditional consortia, it is only a "small business", and it can't even enter their sight.

Most of Catherine's company is in the "seeding" stage, and most of the projects are being studied. At this time, almost all of her own income is invested in research and expansion of production. As long as it reaches the stage of "harvesting", Catherine believes that her company will surely soar into the sky.

The matter of Soviet spies seems to be still being discussed at the upper level, but Catherine chose to return to California.

The network demand of &net is not so high, at least there is no problem at all in the trial.

At this time, Catherine suddenly realized that she had forgotten something...

After thinking about it for a long time, Catherine suddenly realized that she didn't seem to have made a movie this year?

"Forget it, let's shoot again when you have time..."

Back at her home, Catherine picked up the "Forbes".

In 965, General Motors ranked second in total revenue, with Exxon Mobil's 0.8 billion.

And the number one is Defengjie's Wan.

Last year, Katherine's income was about ten thousand dollars—provided not counting the budget allocated by the Pentagon.

The most profitable industry this year was automobiles and then oil. Catherine's market has not yet fully developed.

But this year's format is different. Seymour Cray developed a second-class computer, which can be obtained at a price of only 9.98 million U.S. dollars. Catherine especially reduced the price by 10,000 U.S. dollars.

Catherine named this class computer "Celeron", Celeron class computer, this name is very good.

The annual output of the Celeron series is temporarily only o to o units, because the workers are not yet familiar with it. The core of use is that the technology is already proficient, and the price is relatively low. The initial research cost is 10,000 US dollars, and the cost is about 10,000 US dollars. If it is put into Taiwan for production and mass production is achieved, the net profit of this class of computer is It is about ten thousand dollars. Compared with IBm, the profit is not big at all, but Catherine understands that when she is trying to seize the market, caring about this profit will only make her own market ownership more difficult.

The Celeron-class computer, which can perform operations per second, was launched in August. As soon as it was launched, it was welcomed. Orders poured in, and 8 copies were soon passed-don’t underestimate that this is only "8". A small number, but this represents a net profit of ten thousand dollars.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, computers that use + as the core and have operations per second have also begun to be launched on the market. The price was 990,000 U.S. dollars, and the net profit was around 10,000 U.S. dollars. Soon, this computer also received 4 orders.

But what made Catherine happy was not just this one, but another thing-Beep Boy.

Beep boy naturally still cannot become a personal equipment, no matter in terms of size or battery life, it is not feasible now.

Therefore, the first thing Beep Boy needs to open is the car version.

The Beep Boy uses the military version. Although the basic data is the same as the normal version, the military version has lower energy consumption and more stable performance.

Since it is used by the military, it doesn't matter if the software is more cumbersome.

"Kate, the prototype of the in-vehicle version of the Beep Boy co-operated by Inte1 and Apple has been completed."

Not long after returning, Elsa told Catherine good news.

"Really?"

Catherine was very happy.

Then, when Catherine saw the real thing, she was so surprised that she couldn't speak.

For this car version of the Beep Boy, it was so angry and funny.

This is a computer with eight cores. This computer has mB of memory, is equipped with a cassette reading device and a tape copying device, and the cost is as high as 10,000 U.S. dollars.

It seems a bit inappropriate to describe it as a vehicle-mounted version, which is more like a vehicle-mounted mobile workstation.

Because eight CPUs are used, the requirements for programming are very high.

The x operating system for this computer, as well as office software, also need to be tailor-made.

Such a version makes the so-called Beepboy bigger than Catherine's Microsoft computer. In fact, Catherine hopes to have a very small and light Beepboy.

The technician's completely wrong direction made Catherine almost feel like she wanted to hit her head.

"Redo all over and start over"

Catherine shook her head.

"But... this is an on-board computer for the military. If we want to realize the functions we need, we can only do this..." the technician argued.

"Not at all. Since it is for military use, there is no need to consider compatibility issues, because there is no third party. At the same time, we don’t have to consider some large-scale software. What do those things do in the car? Play games? Okay, this stuff. Who designed the child?"

Catherine couldn't help it at last.

"Kenneth Blue Thompson." I don't know where a voice came from.

Catherine thought the name was familiar.

"Call him over."

Soon, a sloppy young man trot over.

"You are Ken Thompson?" Catherine asked.

"Yes, miss." He didn't seem to react, still smiling.

"This... Did you design the Beep boy?" Catherine asked.

He nodded, and then was still smiling: "Actually, this is what Dennis and I came up with together. At that time everyone had no idea, so we gave an idea."

"Dennis?"

"Dennis McAllister Rich."

He said.

"Dennis Rich?"

Ken Thompson nodded.

But Catherine was stunned all of a sudden...

netbsp; Isn't it so coincidental?

"Wait, why did you think of turning the computer like this? By the way, where is Dennis?" Catherine felt a little confused.

"I am, miss." A technician raised his hand and walked over.

"In fact, it's like this. I wrote a game about space travel. As a result, computers are running a bit slow now, so we..."

"So you just follow the configuration of the computer you want, do you think about it?" Catherine finally understood what was going on.

The two looked at each other awkwardly, then nodded helplessly.

Catherine walked over to Fiction.com, then turned on the computer, but found that a strange operating system was installed in it, which was completely different from her own X.

"this is?"

"Oh, this is what I wrote, because it is not appropriate to play 8 x, they can only support two cores, so I wrote an operating system."

"What's this thing called?"

"Brian said that the system is too bad, so he just called s, so we just call it that."

"Brian? Who?"

At this time, another programmer came out.

"I am Brian Knihan, miss."

At this time, Catherine was already certain and certain, the three people in front of him, even if they made netbsp; yes they were

"You...You guys come to my office tomorrow morning and I will tell you something."

All three of them were shocked. Is this going to expel themselves?

For them, Inte1 is a holy place. If they are expelled, there will be nothing worse than this in the world.

"But, miss..."

"Okay, let's talk about it tomorrow, ok?" Catherine still frightened them.

mB of memory?

This is all money. It's a waste

It is necessary to frighten them.

As for the Beep boy...

No way, finally returned to Catherine to play in person.

Eight-core processor? Dismantled the replacement core.

mB of memory? Just replace 64kB

The current on-board version does not require real-time depiction of the terrain or complex calculations.

The main function of such a computer is to use computers to communicate with each other, transmit data, and perform basic data processing and communication.

Motorola is about to solve the wireless transmission of digital signals. This is not a problem.

With a small 7-inch screen, you don’t even need to use the x operating system.

The main function of this computer is completely different from that of a Microsoft computer

According to Catherine's submission, one of the most important functions of such a vehicle-mounted beep boy is to describe the terrain.

Use ground radar and computer to draw the map in the system in real time.

It is not the same as a camera~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Such a device requires to depict terrain that is invisible to the naked eye, and at the same time, it must be able to scan the enemy by radar. Therefore, the computer graphics requirements are very high, which is basically impossible now .

Therefore, Catherine now focuses on other aspects.

Replacing the messy instruments with flat-screen images will greatly simplify the work. Catherine believes that such a superior product will easily become popular.

It is completely feasible to be able to turn the original instrument panel into a digital display.

Of course, the operating system completely needs to be rewritten.

But the eight cores of the researchers also seem to be useless?

While planning, Catherine suddenly had an idea...

For example, in the fire control system?

If such a computer is installed in a tank or helicopter, does it seem good?