Blooming America

Chapter 225 ARK Developer Conference (Part 2)

Although mbus was announced, Catherine has not announced the plug-in.

Announced that the game console is over, then the next step is the highlight-the 16-bit machine, a new generation of Pentium computer.

"The following is our company's most important product-Pentium Computer"

As Catherine said, the picture on the projection screen has become like a computer.

"The Pentium computer is our company's new generation product. It will use a 16-bit CPU, a completely 16-bit operating system, and will be backward compatible with current products..."

Catherine did not disclose too much, because she and a third party will need to have a discussion later, which will be completely closed.

What Catherine is doing right now is actually no different from making a show. She mainly wants to let ordinary people know how powerful Catherine’s new products are.

"... Pentium computer, we expect it will be launched tomorrow or the next year, by then, everyone will see a very different product..."

As for the minicomputer T1, it has just begun to develop, this kind of thing that is likely to be infinitely bounced, Catherine still does not want to release it like this, at least after the product design is completed, think about it.

After Catherine left, next, it was the third party's turn to take the stage.

The estimated time for the conference is three days.

The first day is the promotion of new products, and the second day is the software, and on the third day, it is the game conference.

After the conference, the exhibition hall will be open for another fifteen days.

After fifteen days, the exhibition hall will be closed, and at that time, Catherine will begin construction of the new building.

Now, on the stage is a representative of Fairchild.

Although Catherine's act of digging the wall seemed to make Fairchild very angry, it unexpectedly made Fairchild start to reflect, and has begun to adjust the company's strategy. In the company, there are still many technicians who have feelings for them. , Fairchild Company vaguely has the trend of ZTE.

Fairchild released a co-processor to enhance performance.

Because the third party has passed gas, this coprocessor is able to support 16-bit systems.

According to Fairchild's explanation, this coprocessor can be used to enhance floating-point computing capabilities, with excellent results, and can greatly enhance the operating speed of the computer.

After Fairchild had released their products, their old enemy, Texas Electric Company, also came up.

They also developed a coprocessor.

The surrounding audience could see at once that the two companies were pinpointing each other...

Despite these unexpected circumstances, Catherine was relieved that the conference went smoothly. And below, those onlookers have been reduced a lot, but the rest are also not a few. It seems that these people should belong to computer enthusiasts.

In Catherine's view, she is completely capable of turning this place into a sales center for electronic products. When she discovered that her product was even more popular than she thought, Catherine made up her mind.

After the meeting on the first day was over, Catherine began to formulate a plan for the new building.

The building was going to cover seven floors, and Catherine referred to some practices of later generations.

For example, Catherine used the third floor below as a sales center.

The first floor will become the game marketing center. According to Catherine's plan, it will be rented out to game manufacturers. By the way, there will also be sales of handhelds, arcades, and home game consoles.

On the second floor, there is a special area for computer sales, where compatible products of various computers will be sold.

Catherine’s open policy is in fact a way of authorization. Every time the other party sells a product, ARK can extract a certain amount of patent fees and so on.

However, the amount is not high, and for the third party, the profit is still very objective.

Catherine’s strategy is high quality and high service, so the price of her extra accessories is relatively high, and some low-end users will choose products produced by other manufacturers.

For example, cheap keyboards and mice, as well as memory and chips.

Moreover, Catherine only produces pure computers.

But these third parties use Catherine's computer as a medium to develop other things. For example, it is used for graphic design.

At present, computers are more widely used in the professional field, so various hardware interfaces for the professional field emerge in an endless stream, and Catherine's universal plug-in card interface is very convenient for the access of these hardware.

As for the third layer, it will exist as an after-sales department, where various manufacturers can perform product maintenance and warranty.

In addition to these three floors, the fourth floor will exist as a warehouse, and the fifth floor will become the company's meeting place, where various future activities can be carried out.

Catherine has not yet figured out the purpose of the sixth and seventh floors, because she has to attend an internal meeting with a third-party personal computer development.

To be honest, Catherine had never thought that the current computer would develop so strangely.

Although today's computers are not worth mentioning compared with the future, under the lead of Catherine, many people who want to start a business now join the ranks of Microsoft-type computers to develop new accessories.

In this respect, compared to "history", my own industry is completely different from history.

For example, the cassette slot necessary for Catherine's computer now has never appeared in the "historical".

Software developers load the product in the read-only M, then plug the cassette into the computer to read the software...

In the 21st century where Catherine was, the common slots on computer motherboards were often used to install sound cards, network cards and other equipment, and to install the equipment, it was often necessary to disassemble the main box.

And Catherine’s products are almost plug-and-play. The interface is placed outside the chassis, and it is not limited to network cards and sound cards. It not only supports extended hardware, but also basically requires software. "Cassette" for installation.

One big reason for this is that the storage capacity of current computers cannot keep up with the development of computers. Otherwise, Catherine's X system would not choose to be installed on the read-only M.

Because of the limitation of storage capacity, Catherine and those third parties had to develop green software and plug-and-play software one by one to meet the needs of computers.

Although in Catherine’s view, this is really strange, but for current computer programmers, it is very natural-because they do not know the future like Catherine, but think that this is the trend of computer development. .

Catherine estimates that this situation will continue for at least 10 to 20 years before it may be resolved. Catherine can only develop something that has not appeared before, but for a specific scientific research. There is no way to speed them up much. Moore's Law... Oh, it's Edson's Law now, and the predictions of this law are still quite accurate.

Research on hard disks has been around since the 1950s, but until the 1980s, the storage capacity was still small and expensive, and Catherine’s optical disks and optical drives had been developed. With large-capacity optical disks, developers did not I think of using the original computer media as a medium.

This meeting mainly discussed with third parties about the use of new equipment, such as optical drives.

Catherine will not, like Japanese manufacturers, launch a separate device first, and then let a third party adapt to it.

Although the personal computer seems to be very prosperous, in the eyes of Catherine, it is still a baby in a swaddle, and needs care to grow up.

And as the saying goes, everyone is gathering firewood and the fire is high, and the situation in the United States is not the same as in Japan. Catherine's company status is also very delicate, so she thinks such a "ventilated" meeting is necessary.

"Gentlemen and ladies, it is nice to see you again. I think everyone already knows our purpose here."

There were more than one hundred people at the conference, all of whom were representatives of large manufacturers or joint representatives of small manufacturers.

In order to prevent too many people, Catherine adopted a method of letting small factories jointly elect representatives and let them participate.

Because this conference is about the next generation of computers, Catherine cut directly into the subject.

"I think everyone knows that our Pentium computers will use 16-bit CPUs as the core, and will also adopt new storage methods... CD-ROMs will become the main medium for the next generation of computers. Our current technology can convert CD-ROMs. The capacity of the laser head reaches 210MB. But because of the error when the laser head is reading, and the error that may be caused when the disk is engraved, we will use the three-laser head code division scanning technology."

Catherine said ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ We divided the CD-ROM drive into three equal sectors, and then there are three laser heads distributed in a regular triangle on the CD-ROM drive, they will read the same section of content, and then use the method of comparison to read Data, in this way, we can get a complete CD-ROM data. The only problem with this is that the actual capacity of the optical drive will drop to a maximum of 70MB. "

Although it was only 70MB, everyone else felt elated when they heard the news.

After all, at this time, when programmers are making programs, they are almost squeezing every byte and calculating carefully in order to reduce the space required by their programs and achieve the most simplified programs. And now the largest program, the size will not exceed 512KB-this is the limit that M can reach at present, and the price is extremely expensive.

70MB, for these programmers, undoubtedly brought them from a 10-square-meter slum to a 1,000-square-meter house. How could they be unhappy?

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