Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"Thank you for your contribution to the empire. Your achievements can be said to have opened the door to the third industrial revolution." The first industrial revolution was the steam technological revolution, the second industrial revolution was the electric power technological revolution, and the third The industrial revolution is a revolution in computers and information technology.

Yannick came to the computer research and development department of Area 51, shook hands with everyone one by one, and personally awarded the Imperial Medal, which represents the country's highest honor, to the four persons in charge. These four people are von Neumann, Conrad Zuse, Turing, and Tommy Flowers. Yannick originally planned to bring over Americans Mocherli and Ecateki, but unfortunately the two did not know each other; they accidentally drowned while fishing in a lake a few years ago.

Needless to say, von Neumann and Turing; Konrad Zuse was later known as the father of digital computers, and the computer he invented was the famous Z series computer.

In the 1930s, Konrad Zuse worked as a structural design engineer at the Hanse aircraft factory while studying for a degree in civil engineering. As the amount of engineering calculations increases year by year, he is interested in designing and manufacturing powerful computers suitable for engineering calculations. After long-term exploration and research and perseverance, he invented a series of automatic computers named "Z" and relied on them to handle complex engineering calculation problems.

In order to make the machine more efficient, Zuse even designed a programming language Plankalkuel. This achievement made Zuse among the pioneers of computer languages.

And Tommy Flowers was a British computer expert comparable to von Neumann.

As mentioned earlier, Eniac is the world's first electronic computer, and the UK also has a "Colosas" that claims to be the world's first electronic computer, and it was launched two years earlier than Eniac.

However, the number of tubes of the Eniac computer is nearly ten times that of the "Colosas"; the "Colosas" is not general-purpose and is generally considered to be used to deal with the decryption of the strategic encryption system of the German High Command, while the Eniac has general-purpose computing characteristics; 12 Ten of the "Colosas" were destroyed immediately after the war, and the remaining two were destroyed in the 1960s, leaving not a single blueprint; while Eniac has access to the world.

Even so, "Colosas" did make a lot of contributions to the war.

The "Lorentz cipher machine" was the main encryption machine used for communications between senior German generals including Mustache in the late World War II. It was very difficult to decipher the codes encrypted by it. Mustache believed that the "Lorentz cipher machine" was invincible until his death. The main purpose of the British development of the "Colosas" computer was to decipher the codes encrypted by the "Lorentz cipher machine". It takes 6 to 8 weeks to decipher this kind of code using other means, but it only takes 6 to 8 hours to use the 'Colosas' computer. Therefore, since it was put into use, a large number of high-level German military secrets were quickly deciphered, and the Allied forces Even more powerful.

The person in charge of the development of the "Colosas" computer is Dr. Tommy Flowers; he was also "abducted" by Yannick to Germany a few years ago to work for Germany.

In addition to the medal, they can also receive a scientific scholarship established in Dr. Albert's name.

The excitement of the four people was beyond words. Dr. von Neumann choked with excitement. "Thanks to His Highness's wise leadership." His words were not just flattery. During the computer development period, Yannick helped them solve many problems based on the knowledge of later generations. They admired Yannick from the bottom of their hearts.

This is the advantage of the time traveler. For Yannick, as long as he takes out the most obvious ones from later generations, he will create new ideas one by one. Moreover, they are absolutely correct and the fittest will survive. The wrong ones will have long since disappeared in the long river of history.

After the award ceremony, several leaders demonstrated the operation of the first computer for Yannick.

Because the first computer in this time and space was mainly based on transistors and supplemented by electron tubes, it was much smaller in size than the first computer in the original time and space, covering an area of ​​only 20 square meters.

"Power on!" As Dr. von Neumann gave the order, the assistant next to him pressed the power button.

"Buzz!" The machine made a low roar and started.

"Stabilizer No. 1 is operating normally and the power supply is stable!"

"Stabilizer No. 2, the voltage is very stable without any changes..."

Turing and several other persons in charge personally operated the machine and exchanged the values ​​on the instrument from time to time.

ENIAC, the first computer in the original time and space, includes a control part, a high-speed storage part, an arithmetic part and an input and output part. It uses decimal bits. The arithmetic part can perform four arithmetic operations and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through direct counting instead of using logic circuits. Square operation, its accumulator has addition operation and storage capacity. The output uses an IBM punch card machine, which can input 125 cards and output 100 cards per minute. Input and output can overlap and have buffering capabilities. There is also a read-only memory ROM in ENIAC, which realizes program control through ROM, accumulator and program panel, and changes the program by changing the panel plug wiring. The basic circuits in ENIAC include gates (logical AND), buffers (logical OR), and flip-flops, which are standard components of later computers. Except for the function of not storing programs, it embodies or includes almost all the main concepts and components of modern computers. The main frequency of ENIAC is 100 kHz, the addition time is 0.2 ms, and the multiplication time is 8ms.

After the extension of Eniac, von Neumann proposed a major improvement theory, which mainly includes two points; one is that electronic computers should be based on binary operations; the other is that electronic computers should work in a "stored program" manner, and It further clearly pointed out that the structure of the entire computer should be composed of five parts: arithmetic unit, controller, memory, input device and output device. The proposal of these theories by von Neumann solved the problem of computer operation automation and speed coordination. problem, which played a decisive role in the subsequent development of computers. Until later generations, most computers still work in the von Neumann method.

Although Yannick is not a programmer, he has written simple codes such as "hello world" and has a certain understanding of the principles of programming.

Programming is telling the computer what to do. A computer is essentially a bunch of little electronic switches that turn on or off. The principle of programming is to make the computer do something by setting different combinations of these switches. Programming language computers use a simple language consisting only of ones and zeros, where one means "on" and 0 means "off". Trying to talk to a computer in its own language is like trying to talk to a friend in Morse telegraph code. Programming language acts as a translator between you and the computer.

Yannick explained the principles of programming to these people, and he was indeed an expert in this field. They quickly understood the meaning and developed the corresponding assembly language.