Daming 1805

The 21st day of the first month of the sixth year of the Era.

It is the [-]st day of the [-]th day of the year [-] in the Chinese Gregorian calendar.

In the Fengtian Hall of the New Forbidden City in Tianfu, Zhu Jingyuan held the first court meeting of the new year.

The first imperial court meeting every year was a ceremonial imperial court, where top managers from all aspects of the Ming Dynasty gathered together to pay homage to the emperor after the start of work in the new year.

After shouting long live the mountain, everyone respectfully asked the emperor to express his condolences.

Zhu Jingyuan looked down emotionlessly. Most of the officials were wearing normal official uniforms.

A group of old officials headed by Da Zongbo Shen Fu were wearing plain clothes. They had served as senior officials in Zhu Zhongliang's court.

Shen Fu was the young minister of Honglu Temple and often had the opportunity to see Zhu Zhongliang.

They are all considered to be Zhu Zhongliang's former ministers.

According to the traditional etiquette, they had to continue wearing this for 27 months, but according to the new rules, it was changed to 36 days.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't say much. He asked them all to sit down and began to arrange and confirm routine work.

The sixth year of the Grand Duke is a relatively important year.

Many of the things Zhu Jingyuan arranged in the first year of the reign should have been completed around the fifth year of the reign.

However, in order to prepare for war, the country's resources and strength have been diverted to war on a large scale, and many R&D and construction unrelated to war have been slowed down.

The policy direction of the imperial court was adjusted again in the second half of the fifth year of the Grand Duke's reign, and research and development and construction in all aspects were resumed and accelerated again.

After the meeting, the managers of each department returned to their posts to organize the work of their own institutions.

The central court of the Ming Dynasty resumed normal operations again.

Zhu Jingyuan returned to the harem after the court meeting, and accepted the worship of Zhu Zhu You and Zhu Zhu Pu in the Qianqing Palace.

Judy U and Judy Plutonium are about to officially start their training. They came here today to say goodbye to their father.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the two sons in front of him, as well as the grandson and granddaughter held by the woman next to them, and his mood became slightly cheered up.

Grandpa passed away, but his children and grandchildren are still growing up. The continuation of the family and the biological level can be called prosperous.

Zhu Jingyuan patted his two sons on the shoulders, said a few words of encouragement to them, and hugged their four children.

After Judy said goodbye to her father, she took her family to Zhoushan Military Port to report.

Then according to the arrangement, he boarded the battleship command ship Huguang and began to serve as a junior officer.

Zhu Zhudi doesn't have to leave Yingtian Mansion for the time being.

But I will have to leave school in the future and will not have the opportunity to meet Zhu Jingyuan often.

Zhudi Pu and his family moved to the southernmost "semiconductor factory" in Yingtian New City, which is also the southernmost area under the jurisdiction of Jiangpu County.

The semiconductor factory is not a factory, but a place name similar to Liulichang.

Since five years ago, it has been announced that the semiconductor industry, which is directly led by the Semiconductor Division and vigorously develops and builds, is mainly concentrated in this place.

This place was also separated from the original Shiqi Town, and a "semiconductor factory" at the township, town, and city level was established.

Zhu Di Pu took the appointment letter from the court and found the location of "Yingtian Microchip", a subsidiary of the New Industry Group.

This Yingtian Microchip is a factory in the conventional sense.

When Zhu Di Pu reported to the factory, the shopkeeper of Yingtian Microchip was obviously a little surprised.

The prince who had just started his political training was put directly into the factory. This seemed to have never happened before.

In the past, it was not that there were no princes in charge of factories, but they were usually in charge during local training.

Instead of simply sending them directly to the factory for practical training.

However, His Majesty the Grand Duke often does things unexpectedly, and the tradition of the New Ming Dynasty prohibits anyone from intervening in administrative training, so the shopkeeper did not dare to say anything.

But the shopkeeper didn't have any objections in his heart.

The prince who was able to complete the reserve education with good grades at the age of 19 is a newcomer who is not too bad at anything he does.

Princes who are not smart and do not study seriously will be eliminated in the education stage and will not be sent to the political training stage.

Judy also has computer-related expertise, which is hard to find in today's society.

Just think of it as recruiting a new person, and it's not a loss at all.

The Ming Dynasty did not allow anyone to interfere with the actual training of governance. Another meaning was that the princes involved in governance should be treated as ordinary subordinates.

Although the problem of work arrangement does not need to be deliberately aggravated, it does not require special attention.

So the shopkeeper accepted Judy Plutonium and assigned him to the testing department.

Judy Plutonium is very interested in this new job.

Then he quickly regretted it.

It’s not that I regret coming here for training, but that I didn’t come here earlier.

The large computers I use at school, and even the various traditional computers used by the Ming Dynasty, are likely to be completely outdated soon.

A new round of computer replacement is about to begin.

The Yingtian Microchip factory is responsible for R&D and testing of miniature semiconductor integrated circuit chips.

This is a completely new kind of computer chip.

Taking advantage of the special properties of silicon, a large number of switching circuits can be centrally arranged on a very small carrier.

The supporting "Yingtian Silicon Crystal" photolithography factory has already implemented related technologies.

The chip that has been designed and continues to be produced on a small scale for application testing is code-named "Basan".

It means eight-bit processor, which is currently the third modified version.

It has eight-bit operation and data bandwidth, [-] internal transistors, and can complete [-] calculations per second.

This data is not high on a large computer, and can even be considered very outdated.

But the size of this chip is only the size of mahjong, only as big as a thumb.

A conventional computer is at least the size of a large wardrobe.

"[-]" is still an experimental chip.

Targeting mass production, the chip is code-named "Sixteen-Two", which is the second revised version of the [-]-bit processor. The specifications have been greatly improved again.

The 100 will have [-] transistors, have a [-]-bit data and calculation bit width, and will achieve a calculation speed of [-] million times per second.

This calculation speed has already matched the main computing machines used by various departments of the Ming Dynasty.

The main body of those machines is as big as a wall!
Compared with traditional transistor computers, the efficiency of this micro-integrated computing chip has been significantly improved.

They can be used to build larger computing machines with higher computing power.

But Judy also feels that this microchip has another, possibly equally important, role.

This chip is used as the core to create a computer that is small enough.

This small computer can be used in a normal office or even on a desk.

In the past, computer users were basically large manufacturers and various yamen that needed computing power.

This kind of miniaturized computer can be sold to small and medium-sized private manufacturers.

There could be a very huge market here.

Judy Plutonium even considered putting the computer on her bedroom desk.

This is also the idea that excites Judy Plutonium the most.

Zhudi Plutonium himself was not very interested in business. He only mastered professional skills during the learning stage, which made him naturally consider this aspect.

The thing that Judy Pu is most concerned about is actually the personal use of the computer.

Zhudi Plutonium is a prince, and at the same time he is talented and capable in this field, so he does not need to hide his thoughts.

After Zhudi Plutonium had been brewing for a few days, he went directly to the shopkeeper of Yingtian Microchip and explained his idea.

The factory manager was shocked after hearing this.

It’s not that I’m surprised by Judy Plutonium’s idea itself, but that this idea coincides with some people.

So the shopkeeper made a call to the General Affairs Department, applied to confirm some things, and then took Zhudi Pu into the confidentiality laboratory.

The shopkeeper showed Judy Pu a small personal computer that is still under development and debugging.

The appearance of this computer is very similar to Zhu Jingyuan's personal computer in his previous life, and it is also very clearly divided into several parts.

It's just that compared to later generations of computers, every part of this machine is much heavier and larger.

Of course, compared to the original computers in this world, they are many times smaller and more exquisite.

A main chassis is about one meter long and wide, and about thirty centimeters thick.

A monitor is a specially made television.A typical keyboard.

There is also a small box with a round front and back next to the keyboard. Like the keyboard, there is a cable trailing behind it, and there are two buttons on it.

The shopkeeper of Yingtian Microchip opened a computer and showed Zhudi Pu the functions and usage of this small computer.

The parameters of the computer are not important, but the shopkeeper still said it first.

The code name for this generation of computers is Sixteen A.

Using a 100 chip, the calculation speed is [-] million times per second.

The ledger capacity is 530 words, which is equivalent to 64K of running memory.

The bottom account capacity is 3 characters, which is equivalent to 760K of read-only memory.

The library capacity is 670 million words, which is equivalent to a hard disk capacity of 16M.

The basic parameters of this computer are exactly the same as those of the Type III general-purpose silicon computing machine five years ago.

But the Type [-] computer five years ago was made up of several large cabinets that filled one wall.

The current [-]-A computer is only the size of a small cabinet.

The hard drives that originally took up several large cabinets have now been miniaturized and stuffed into the chassis.

This one meter long and wide case can be placed next to a desk, and the monitor and keyboard can be placed on top of the desk.

However, the biggest difference between this computer and the original mainframe computer is the new operating method of this personal computer.

Shiliujia has a basic graphical operation interface.

There is also a newly designed input device to match the graphical interface - the mouse.

It is the box that drags the cable. It can move the pointer position on the display by friction with the desktop through the scroll wheel at the bottom.

Click the two buttons above to realize the selection and confirmation functions.

This thing was made according to the instructions of His Majesty the Grand Duke, and it was directly named the mouse by His Majesty the Grand Duke at that time.

It is indeed an appropriate name. It looks like a mouse dragging its tail. Its most important function is the cursor for movement and confirmation.

On this basis, the computers here are also connected to the "Daming Computing Machinery and Data Interconnection Line Network" system that is being debugged.

Referred to as "Da Ming Internet".

This system will use special cables to connect the main computing computer centers in Ming Dynasty, allowing them to exchange data with each other and even work together.

It will complete final functional testing with a personal computer.

This thing is obviously the Internet of later generations.

The current full name of this thing seems a bit abstract to locals including Judy Plutonium, but it is easy to understand.

That's a summary of what it actually does.

Of course it seems a bit abstract to modern people, but you can understand it instantly by abbreviating it.

Judy Pu, who understood and experienced all this, felt an unprecedented shock.

Just like when Apple founder Steve Jobs experienced Xerox's Alto computer in 1979.

The combination of graphical user interface and mouse gave Jobs a great shock.

After Jobs returned to the company, he quickly decided to learn this design and apply it to his Apple computers.

Judy's feelings at this time may be even stronger than those of Steve Jobs.

Judy Plutonium learned of the existence of microchips and believed that this key chip could be used to build small computers.

However, there is no concrete idea of ​​how to design, how to manufacture, what accessories are needed, and how to design the corresponding software.

Nothing like it has ever appeared in this world before.

But now the Sixteenth Armor that Zhudi Yu sees seems to be the complete body of this functional goal.

Because the personal computers and equipment designed under Zhu Jingyuan's guidance are more mature and perfect than what Jobs first saw.

There is also a feat of direct cooperation with the Internet system.

Judy Plutonium felt that the design of this Type [-]A computer in all aspects and its cooperation with the Internet could be said to be incredibly exquisite.

It's like it has been tempered countless times.

Zhudi Pu said sincerely that his father was really a genius.

After visiting and learning about personal computers and Internet systems, Judy's job changed.

Begin to be directly responsible for the post-debugging of these equipment.

The development of the two systems has now reached the final debugging stage.

By the second half of this year at the latest, personal computers will be mass-produced simultaneously with the official version of the [-]-bit processor.

Then the Ming Internet was officially deployed simultaneously.

It was first delivered to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Wenhua Palace and the Cabinet, the Wuying Palace and the Military Aircraft Department, the General Affairs Department, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Taxation for trial use.

In the future, as the production capacity continues to increase, the scope of use will be gradually expanded.

The functions that Judy Plutonium directly comes into contact with are all things that have basically taken shape.

Judy felt like she was constantly exposed to new uses of computers.

Judy Pu felt more and more that the mouse combined with the graphical interface made the computer more difficult to use.

Even people who don't understand computers at all can start using this professional equipment directly as long as there are enough guides on the graphical interface.

The biggest question is, what can ordinary people without relevant knowledge do with this kind of computer?
As a more powerful electronic calculator and ledger?
This is of course a very important feature.

However, Judy Plutonium herself is more inclined to truly personal, or life-oriented functions.

Rather than calculation and recording of the nature of the work.

So Judy Plutonium began to think about what life functions a personal computer placed at home could achieve.

The first thing Zhudi Plutonium thought of was to transfer the functions of various existing lifestyle and entertainment devices to personal computers.

Including radios, tape recorders, music players, broadcast systems, televisions, telephones, etc.

Radios and telephones seem to be relatively easy to implement. The corresponding circuits and components can be made into modular accessories and installed in the computer host.

But recording and playback machines are a bit troublesome, mainly due to storage issues.

Considering the storage principle, the computer's hard disk seems to be able to store sounds and images, but its capacity is obviously too small.

Hard drives are too expensive compared to tapes. This kind of space that can be read at any time cannot be used to store low-level information such as video and sound.

So make a tape recording and playback device and put it into your computer?
Judy Plutonium soon felt that this was indeed feasible, but she always felt that it was not very meaningful.

Tape recording and playback equipment, as well as features such as radio and broadcasting were added ahead.

It is equivalent to stuffing various machines into a computer case, which will obviously further increase the size of the computer host.

At the same time, the device that ultimately realizes the function is the original tape recorder and other machines themselves.

Just use the screen on the motor computer instead of manually pressing the play button of the recorder.

This is certainly not completely meaningless, but it is not what Judy Plutonium wants most.

What Judy Plutonium wants to find is the life function that the computer can realize independently.

Moreover, these things are not part of my job.

The main body of testing now is computers, and the development of supporting hardware equipment is the follow-up work of other manufacturers.

So Judy Plutonium played a little game.

It's still an online game.

Let two people who are not together play Go through the Internet.

Developing new features on this computer can also be regarded as a typical testing project.

Because computer-related departments also have to continue to use computers.

The realization of the Go function may be the simplest thing in the world.

Just draw the grid and add black and white pieces.

There are only two colors and the picture is still, which is much simpler than Minesweeper.

It may be a bit troublesome to make it a stand-alone machine. It requires a chess record library and a certain amount of computing power to support it.

But it's easy to set up an online battle, where the opponent is directly another real person.

The computer itself is only responsible for counting the number of chess pieces on both sides.