The Goddess Shines on America

If Gates is not a person who likes to show off, Alice, who has experienced it, would not believe it, so as expected, this handsome 30-year-old uncle immediately entered a state of excitement.

"I've already bought a piece of land in Seattle. It's on the east bank of Lake Washington. A piece of land with more than 66,000 acres is only sold for two million!"

"Oh, that's really great." Alice calmly sipped the fresh orange juice, at least 40% of her attention was on the construction site of the building outside the window: "What about the building materials? Since those birds who run by the lake don't shit Surely you wouldn’t choose reinforced concrete to build a house in a place like this?”

"Of course, how can we use that kind of material." Gates, who was in a state of excitement, didn't even bother to eat. God knows how much inspiration he has added to his future residence. In fact, he couldn't wait to show off to Alice. It's been a while.

"I plan to adopt an all-wood structure. Of course, ordinary wood will not work." After all, the land is just bought, and many combinations are only available after construction. For long timber, I am more optimistic about Douglas fir, and it must be at least two hundred years old, what do you think?"

"Oh, don't ask me that." Alice said, "I am a pure enjoyer of modern technology. If it is covered, it must be made of carbon fiber to make the floor. I don't feel anything about you."

"Carbon, carbon fiber?" Such an unclear word, Gates was a little taken aback. However, this is his show-off show after all: "Well, don't care what kind of fiber you have, anyway, I have decided to use Douglas fir trees that are more than two hundred years old for the floor!"

"Uh-huh, uh-huh."

"Of course, Alice, your hedonism is also in common with me." It's rare that Gates is chatting with colleagues instead of discussing advanced topics with silly people like the aunt next door. Thinking about his new house.

"Look, I come from a software background, and your Cisco is the leader in network construction. How about transforming our new home...I mean mine into a particularly futuristic look?"

Futuristic, this word should be regarded as modern for Alice, well, of course it’s not interesting to pick words, as long as the meaning is the same.

"In this regard, I can give you advice directly."

It's so simple and trouble-free, Alice said: "I just came up with a new word called smart home recently. Huh, it should be my original, have you heard it from other colleagues?"

"Smart... no," it's funny to say that new concepts such as the Internet of Things are often proposed by Silicon Valley bigwigs, but at this time Gates, as one of the "proposers", was conversely accepted by Alice. Bluffed: "Don't make me guess, just explain it directly!"

"Well, the so-called smart home must first be built on a lofty goal, that is, to allow all kinds of electrical appliances in the home to be equipped with computer chips and have a microcomputer's energy supply."

This sentence is enough to make Gates think deeply and nod constantly. Over the past few years, the efforts of IBM and HP have been seen by their peers. Computer miniaturization is the general trend. According to the law proposed by the current chairman of Intel, the major premise proposed by Alice can indeed be realized very quickly. .

"It will probably take around 2000," he muttered, "It seems that I will have to spend a lot of time building my house slowly?"

Alice chuckled softly: "I said buddy, don't just think about houses, don't you see that I am proposing an emerging market?"

They are all geniuses with high IQs, and it only takes a moment for them to be out of tune. After thinking about it, Gates immediately followed Alice's rhythm: "Oh, yes, this is indeed an emerging market. Are you interested in going to the market?" develop here?"

The girl smiled and leaned back in the chair, happily sipping juice: "The computerization of household appliances, and then use network equipment to connect them, and then allow users to control them with the operating system. Bill, have you thought of those fields?"

"Intel's chip research and development, Cisco's great development of network hardware, Microsoft's NT project took shape... ah~" Gates followed the ideas provided by Alice and came to a conclusion that made him suddenly: "No wonder you can come up with such a The idea of ​​smart home, isn’t that exactly what you’re working on!”

"If you count the time, I should go back to Eton in September." However, Alice suddenly changed the subject, but it seemed that the fundamental content was still revolving around her and Gates: "So the last eight months This month, I have to visit Silicon Valley, and of course I have to go to Redmond. After all, I have the title of technical consultant in so many companies in which I have invested, and I should finally use up my spare time~”

This is said, as if someone is about to return to heaven.

"Lockheed, did you find you recently?"

Gates suddenly asked such a question, and Alice shrugged and said, "No, at least there is nothing that made me go to Maryland again. At most, it's just a bunch of emails sent endlessly. Is there any problem?"

"Some time ago, Little Lockheed came to me." Gates said: "After all, the programming of military aircraft and missiles is a big project. They want to reach an initial cooperative relationship with Microsoft to provide support for some procedural matters."

This is by no means a trivial matter, Alice immediately put down the glass and said, "When did it happen? Does anyone know?"

"That is, five days ago, they sent me an email, and I haven't announced it to the company. Alice, you have some connections in Lockheed, and they didn't notify you directly?"

"Oh, it's normal. You are the boss of Microsoft." Alice waved her hand indifferently and said, "What I'm concerned about now is, does the Ministry of Defense know?"

"As a veteran arms dealer, Lockheed's connections in the military and political circles are indeed very small." Gates analyzed: "What happened in Washington is something from another world to us. Who knows how those politicians deal with these chaos Maybe Lockheed asked their congressmen to lobby in the Department of Defense, and then attracted others to offer to let Lockheed cooperate with us at Microsoft?"

It is indeed too difficult for a purely technical nerd to understand the affairs of the political circle. After all, Gates was only in his early thirties at this time, and when he spent four-fifths of the seven days a week typing on the keyboard, how could he have the time to study those things?

"After all, our development scale is not enough, especially in terms of history. After all, less than half of Silicon Valley people are actually nouveau riche." Alice shrugged empathetically: "Although the IT industry is indeed a high output value, when it comes to In terms of building connections in political circles, those traditional industries are hundreds of years ahead of us, it’s incomparable~”

A few words of gossip are enough. The chairman of Microsoft put aside his work and went all the way south to California to meet with Alice. Of course, it can't just be for greetings and chatting. After eating, they went back to the room—no conspiracy, no sex—the two of them still had serious work to do.

"NT project here, oh my god..."

In the room, after handing the materials to Alice, Gates first stretched his waist: "It's almost finished, at least half of the credit is due to you!"

Seeing Alice take over the materials, he suddenly had the urge to never move.

Because, this big project is really tossing people.

Alice hasn't visited Redmond in person for a long time, but it doesn't mean that Microsoft's expansion is stagnant, although almost all of the big single achievements so far have been created by it. If Cisco has been established for three years, and now as a listed company, it has recruited a thousand employees and occupies no less than two buildings, then the scale of Microsoft is of course not small, after all, it is also a post-listing existence.

Two hundred people, this is the company's current third largest shareholder, the number of people Paul Allen has recruited for the NT project team, this group of young men really needs a lot of office space. And from the beginning of this project, everyone in the company knew that this must be an extremely time-consuming project.

After all, there is a huge difference between the server-oriented Internet operating system and the system purely for PCs, that is, the former DOS and the current win1.0~3.0.

First, the staff had to develop a new type of file system. According to the name of the email sent by Alice, it is called NTFS, that is, Windows-New-Technology-File-System, which can provide security access control and fault tolerance. On large-capacity disks, its efficiency is better than that of the old FAT much taller.

Then, programmers need to set up a sharing system and set certain permissions on network resources. Furthermore, they also need to create the concept of user accounts. After all, for a server computer, not everyone has the right to use all resources.

Then there is domain, which is the basic unit of data security and centralized management, that is, to integrate countless servers loaded with NT system into one, and a group of computers share the same account and security database. With domains, of course, there is also the concept of workgroups. In this network structure where resources and system management are dispersed, each computer has a peer-to-peer relationship, and each other can be a server or a workstation.

There is also the issue of rights, which allows the administrator to authorize a user to perform certain operations on the system to protect the system as a whole. The logical laws of mathematics are fully demonstrated here, and the concept of authority naturally comes with the right, which stipulates the users who can use a certain object and how to use it.

Furthermore, various safety audit items are even more complicated and almost crazy. You know, Microsoft itself was the direct victim of the original "exchange gate". Although IBM has been very honest recently, which employee does not take this item as the top priority?

Therefore, Alice also directly turned the report to the most important part: "Here is the security agreement..."

Gates raised his eyebrows: "How?"

How about it?

How much can Alice expect from the code compiled by a group of ordinary programmers?

"It's too redundant~"