Blooming America

Chapter 198 Intel

The pioneer of Xian Tong, semiconductor.

Robert. Neuss, I used to work in the fairy child.

The start of the company is starting from the IBM order, and then with the semiconductor and the integrated circuit, the profitability of the entire company is getting higher and higher.

Almost everyone is full.

However, the general manager of the parent company continues to transfer profits to the East Coast to support the profitability of Fairkeld's photographic equipment company, but let the company's employees have some opinions.

Herni, Roberts and Clare three are the first to bear it, they have even intended to hop.

And this time, olive branches from Intel stretched.

Three people quickly got connected with Intel.

At this semiconductor industry, At this time, it has become the holy place in the eyes of Silicon Valley.

Finally, under the lobbying of the three, eight people finally entered Intel.

After receiving the reception of Sanders, their work begins.

Sanders said that the company will have an important task to give them, so they are doing now, it is familiar with the company's environment.

Is it important task?

Eight people are eager to try, Roberts is not in exception.

However, after coming to the company, Roberts found that Intel's work atmosphere, really different from other companies.

When entering Intel, a sentence is written on the wall: "Here, everyone is the party owner.

I entered the company, I feel that the atmosphere is not the same.

A Microsoft computer is placed in front of each person's desk. Not only that, but some people still put X's game console, but no one is playing games.

They are very serious, they are working hard, and next to it, a staff is putting the bedding bedroom inside a debris.

"Hey I got 16-bit X operating system"

A person suddenly rushed from the next door,

Then yell.

He is too urgent, and Roberts hit together.

"Oh, sorry."

He is embarrassed to laugh.

"What? Ken, you are sure ... Wait, are you still studying the Gates system?" Someone took the words.

It is willing to shrug: "Yes, but I have already got it. Then I heard that the 16-bit CPU was successfully developed, so I made an operating system."

"The graphics card has not been successfully developed." Some people reminded. "

Wringer shrugged.

The Pentium will use the highest support for 4096 colors, with a 2D renderer, a general resolution supports 640 × 480 × 16 colors.

The basic requirements for MBUS Catherine are that in the case of using a double renderer, the maximum 256 colors can be supported, and the display effect can reach 640 × 480.

256 colors, can be almost satisfied with the general game, and the other side, Catherine is urgently desirable to make a graphical interface, so 256 colors is necessary.

Of course, the 16-bit color and 32 colors, Catherine did not think about it.

The so-called 256 colors, that is, the same screen can show 256 colors, 8 times of 2, also known as 8-bit color.

And 16 colors, the same screen can show 65535 colors, and later mobile phones, many are 16-bit color.

The 24-bit color is also known as true color, can display 1677 million colors, many liquid crystal displays are , because the liquid crystal is difficult to restore the true color of the object.

In the 21st century, the computer generally used true color 32, which is 16.77 million colors and 256 gradation values. --32 bit color is not a 32-year-old color number, which is actually 1677 million colors, but it increases the grayscale of 256-order color. For convenience of call, it stipulates that it is 32-bit color.

The strongest is 36 color, which can display 16.77 million colors and 512 gradation values.

Of course, the current problem is not on the display, but lies in the graphics card.

Approximation, don't say 1677 million colors, CRT in theory, can show unlimited colors, as long as system support.

Now, the problem will appear on the system.

The graphics card is a big problem.

Do not solve this problem, it is really troublesome for the system.

Ken did write an X system that supports 16-bit CPUs, but when the graphics card has not yet been done, he can't write a driver at all, so it can only be like this.

"Ok, ok, then this is."

It is willing to go back, and Roberts call him.

"Excuse me, why do every staff desk, have a X?"

"Oh, it is used when our employees are leisure. Just this is the hardware research team, they are on displaying card equipment ... Our software team, like playing games."

"Play game when you go to work? No problem?"

Roberts also likes to play X, but he does not think such a computer can be placed in the office.

"We only need to finish the prescribed work, the remaining time - until you get off work, it is our own dominant. If we have your own new products, you can also study it yourself, then release, very good?" Will it seems to be Sports.

"We can use the company's things and private life, just share 50% copyright, the company can even help us promote our own products, very good? This is the reason I came Intel."

Roberts is stunned, can this company still?

However, he is more unexpected, in the days of Intel's work.

"This is a group of guys who don't have any love, they only know ironic ... Hey, wait, who are you, how are you here?"

Willing to finally find it wrong, it seems that this is a leisurely oriented, etc. can't be entered?

"Hey ... I am new."

Roberts lit out his employees.

"Oh, oh. It turned out to work here."

Well taking the shoulders of Roberts.

"The people in this are really fun. If you want, you can go to the software department, there is more interesting."

"Thank you."

Roberts ended with Ken's conversation and then entered the hardware development department.

Catherine is designed by the factory, which is divided into two departments of software and hardware, and then subdivided several research groups, and the factory is not in one place.

However, people in the software department always run to the hardware department to ask for guilty.

Hardware is to limit the maximum hindrance development of current software development, so whenever I have encountered problems, I always appear on the hardware sector, although there seems to be some contradictions between the two sides, but Roberts feel very interesting.

Roberts is now more and more expecting Catherine ready to give him a new task.

......

At the same time, Catherine is thinking about a graphics operating system.

- New generation computer, Catherine is preparing to take a graphic operating system, not the mode of the command line. Of course, the command line mode will also keep it.

Just, you want to achieve a beautiful 16-color graphic operation screen, it seems difficult to look.

The route of Catherine's walk is fashion, frontier and popular. Catherine is not satisfied with the development of a monotonous interface.

But ... 16-bit color really good?

Catherine thought that he didn't have that strength.

It is almost the same unless you can get the Japanese art worker in the 1980s.

The Japanese worker in the 1980s, and the American program in the 1980s, the same legend.

At the era of Catherine last life, there is a beautiful Japanese game in the 1980s, but these games, most of them are 16 colors, not 16 bits, that is, on the screen, only 16 colors .

However, Japan's artist, actually can rely on 16 colors, create a large number of exquisite games.

The most typical, that is, "Great Air China Sea Times 2", and "Too Solden Licheng", if you want to say H-GMAE, "Villated City" is also 16 colors.

Especially the "Great Air China Sea Times 2", this game is extremely excellent because of the US workers, until the 21st century, still thinking that it should be 256 colors.

At that time, there were few 256 colors of the game, and that the picture was beautiful, the most typical, that is, "Beauty * DreamWork".

The fierce 80s is now a small child. Catherine does not know how the Japanese art technology in this era is. After all, now I have been in early 20 years ... I created "relativism" in Einstein 20 years ago, he is just a small staff member.

The beauty is very important, since it is necessary to create a graphical interface, the art is necessary.

Of course, and the MBUS (light wheel) is different if you have a 640 × 480 × 256 colors, it takes about 512 kB memory, in order to save costs, Catherine can only use a 16-color real way.

"Ah ... I am really trouble ..."

Catherine is very tangled.

Interface design, sometimes it is really a headache.

"Maybe Annea will make an idea?"

Elsa, who is packing, suddenly said.

"Anne ..."

Annea is very sharp in color, spending the painting of Catherine, can be like really, the painter is very sensitive to the color. It seems very sensitive.

Maybe ... will she have a way?

"Also, the horse is active,"

Catherine finally could only determine this.

Then she called the phone to Dream Factory.

After transferring the phone to Annea after the bus, the other party seems very excited.

"The Kate didn't expect you to call, how are you doing recently?"

"Very good, what about you?"

"Spring Li Chuan" is at the end. Kate, I can't believe that this novel actually receives the welcome, oh, I have to participate in the signboard in a few days, this feeling is really great. "

The other party is obviously happy.

"Anne, maybe you can come over, help me a busy ..."