Blooming America

Chapter 159 Microfitable Computer

After the Oscar ended, Catherine began to continue to launch a network. (Reading novels)

The university network construction of the West Coast is carried out. For the shortest time, Catherine can spend a lot of money.

According to the estimation of the construction partner, before the optical cable is full, Catherine's "Noah" - is the future headquarters - can be completed.

Originally Catherine is to put all the exterior of the building with solar battery board, but unfortunately, this technology is still not mature.

Noa is a full steel frame structure, which is a layer of blue glass. It seems to be pleasing, although it has not been built, but it has not been completed.

The sales of X has now reached 1.5 million. Although it is more than 500,000 records of paradise. However, for Catherine, this is already a good news, after all, his X is more It is necessary to have more than 10 years in advance.

Because X's sales are good, Catherine also decided to sell Microsoft's second generation of computers.

This computer will be released on October 1, using X, which is the Phoenix operating system. The architecture of this operating system is designed above S, but compared to S, Catherine's support is better.

Due to functional and storage limitations, the graphics operation screen is substantially impossible, and X uses the form of command.

The computer is still not like later cultivating home, because there is no graphic operation screen, the average person wants to enter this mysterious area, it is very difficult.

Although Catherine knows this, she still wants to get more users as much as possible, so she simply prepared a booklet, which is used to introduce X this operating system and the included command.

Catherine ruled the WS in the later generation, giving his own Microsoft second-generation computer three kinds of family versions, professional and flagship.

In the home version, Catherine's X's kernel is stored on a read-only memory, which means that the user cannot modify the X, because there is nothing to install the operating system at this time, there is no installation disk. It is quite troublesome when you want to reload the system. Of course, because of this, all of Catherine's software is also "green." In fact, these softwares are also stored in the form of a card, and cannot be modified. The user's experience is very limited.

As for the professional version,

Catherine was installed in the small memory of the computer. At this time, there was no later mechanical memory, mostly the magnetic core deposited equipment, and the capacity was limited.

The difference between the flagship and the professional version is that the Ultimate use of Z80 + CPU, and allows the dual CPU to run - in fact, this is just a head, because the dual CPU also represents the difficulty in software production. Plus a square, no hurts to develop such software without a leisure egg. In the original world of Sega's SS game, it gave PS, not because SS performance is not good, the performance of SS has opened the PS three streets. It failed to adopt a dual CPU, resulting in an increase in development, and many software companies do not know how to optimize the dual CPU, so SS has failed without third-party support.

In addition, Microsoft's second-generation displays have two types of glasses and balls, and the price is about 50 to 100 US dollars. Catherine also launched a displayed machine version.

There is no graphics card, but the image controller PPU is already there.

Xian Tong is very interested in CPU and PPU. After all, fairy children are engaged in semiconductors. Although they can also count the enemy of Catherine, but for fairy taps, it is actually Catherine has been concession. .

This is true from the beginning of the authorization of the earliest integrated circuit.

Although the situation on the mall is the changing changes, but the instability of the immortal company has also lacks the external response.

However, Xian Tong Company is the first developer who is going to Catherine and is willing to be a third-party developer. Catherine also passed the Tao Li, launched a model of "LD-I" type CPU with fairy tits. LD-i is a product of Xian Tong, perhaps because of the talents of fairy talents than Catherine, so the performance of this CPU can be more than Z80 +.

Sometimes, scientific and technological progress lacks only to the right direction of the right direction, Catherine has indicated the power of the road, Xian Tong Company, and immediately let them catch up.

Take the Used Ultimate Upper Edition of Microsoft as an Example.

On the motherboard of this machine, there are five card with slots - the family version is only three, four professional version, and two tape data read equipment - the family version and the professional version have only one.

Inside the machine, there is a PPU slot, as well as a slot of the primary CPU, and an extended CPU slot, memory uses 16KB, and in the professional version and the home version, it is 8KB, Three versions of 4KB and 2KB, shared with memory, but this is scalable.

With X's Microsoft's second-generation computers, it is fully compatible with office software. After all, those software are running on that large-scale cultural star, and a real computer wants to run such programs is not too difficult. .

The price of the flagship version of the showboard is $ 2,000, converted into 2010, probably $ 10,000, then converted to * RMB, probably 60000.

However, the price of the professional version is greatly reduced. It uses glasses, only $ 1,200, and the lowest end of the family version is $ 899.

Whether it is the computer, Catherine will give a mine-sweeping game.

The family version and the professional are tape as carriers, and the Ultimate is the form of a cassette.

The reason why the reason is the mine-sweeping game, Catherine mainly considers the use of the mouse.

In Catherine, the computer does not use the mouse, it is essentially an egg pain.

In addition, Catherine also launched a office version.

Such a machine has no cassette slot, and the PPU has also been castrated, only a recordable tape device.

Such a data tape is now a function of a U disk and a floppy disk, mainly for the convenience of information.

This model cannot play games, but with the core of Z80, the processing data is more than enough, only a $ 799, but if you buy 10 or more, you can drop to $ 699.

"Network function seems good."

Sitting at the Apple's headquarters, Catherine looks quite satisfied.

In front of her, it is a Ultimate Microsoft Second Generation Computer.

Computers like this have twelve computers, installed in college and conduct network testing in the school.

From the back of the computer, there was no pop-up novel network. One network cable received a huge photoelectric converter, and then passed a piece of fiber. After another converter, then sent a line, entered Catherine. The computer next to the computer.

The computer and a general computer next to Catherine are not the same, but use IBM storage devices, mechanical storage, and data that can be stored, has reached 5MB.

Catherine is now doing what is doing, is making a web page.

Used to have only a web page under the text interface.

X can only perform single tasks, that is, can not open multiple windows like WS.

However, because of this, online browsing will be smooth.

Z80 + and 16KB used to browse the network message is quite good.

"Unfortunately, if the hard disk can 'give a point, it is better."

If there is a large-capacity storage device, Catherine will definitely develop a lot of software, even if the system is limited, this is not a problem for Catherine.

"But now I can only do this."

Catherine has begun to think about how the company's website is constructed, but it will be displayed in front of several universities in the future. Can not be lost.

In fact, Catherine's most wants to develop, or colored and graphical web pages, but this idea is very unreal.

Now Catherine's machine, up to 32 colors (not true color 32 colors, but 32 colors), and this time the screen resolution is only 320 * 240.

This is still the effect of the Ultimate, and the lowest end of the family version can only display 16 colors. At this time, the screen resolution can only reach 256x240.

It is no problem with this page, but I am afraid memory has become a big tragedy.

Only the web page of the black and white text interface, even 2KB small memory, it is completely able to run, absolutely no problem.

"Hey, if you really run into ** ..."

Catherine sighed.

Although she sighed, but she did not see the pop-up novel network from the surface, Catherine seems to have indeed done it.

She completely separated the computer's host and display, just like the chassis that later appeared. Then the keyboard and the mouse are also connected, see the past without a pop-up novel network, and the computer at the end of the 20th century seems to have no difference.

In this regard, although there is a prediction of future trends, but more, it is Catherine's self-psychological comfort.

Think, Catherine put a box of tape into the computer.

The data recorded in this cartridge is a well-written website that Stanford University.

The data of the tape is started to be scanned, and Catherine knocked a command and quickly read the content inside the tape.

Due to the limitations of technical reasons, the tape can only record one data at a time. After the record is completed, it will "get back" to the beginning. If you want to record multiple data, you must pack these data into one.

After all, the tape does not read it as casualties, and the positioning of the file head is very difficult, especially easier.

Stanford University's website, it doesn't seem to be very, just a text introduced the company's established text, the bottom is a few lines of address, just type this address, you can jump to what you want to see. It is impossible to convert the address as if IE doesn't have the mouse.

However, Catherine's mouse can be used at this time, it can be selected, then copy to the command bar, let the entire operation becomes fast.

"The bread will have, the cheese will be ..."