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"A set of large-scale air-conditioning equipment and sprinkler irrigation equipment, the investment is not less than the planting greenhouse, your courage is not small!" Li Xuan smiled at Chen Tao who was with him. ＠Top＠ǎn＠小＠ said,

Under the instruction of Li Xuan, the Oriental Research Institute installed a computer control system for Chen Tao in one step, instead of the simple temperature alarm device he originally planned.

The real power of the ap-100 calculation is when the computer receives data from the temperature sensor and finds that the temperature in the greenhouse exceeds 25 degrees Celsius. The computer program will automatically turn on the air-conditioning equipment to cool the greenhouse. Similarly, the computer will control the sprinkler irrigation system to automatically sprinkle water on the roses in the entire greenhouse at a fixed time every day according to the program set by the administrator in advance.

In 30 years, it was an ordinary technology in the bad street, but in 1982, it was already a great high-tech. To achieve this ability, Chen Tao, the owner of the greenhouse, naturally needs to invest in the purchase of corresponding air conditioners and sprinkler irrigation equipment.

"My wife and I traveled to Malaysia before and found that the rose garden there is very beautiful. Hong Kong consumes a lot of roses every year, but does not have its own flower planting industry, and needs to import a large amount of roses every year. I think this is an opportunity to prepare Give it a try!"

Chen Tao began to talk about his entrepreneurial history, "After I collected information, I found that the summer in Hong Kong is too hot, which is not good for the growth of roses. Only by adopting greenhouse cultivation can it be easier to control the quality of flowers! I didn't do it well, just last year was the hottest summer in ten years, and the flower seedlings suffered heavy losses!

Originally, my father did not approve of my continuing to expand investment, but my grandfather agreed. He said Li Sheng, since you are willing to provide advanced technical support. There's no reason not to give it a shot! "

The Oriental Research Institute's acceptance of Chen Tao's planting greenhouse automation project is naturally for Chen Xinli's face. Otherwise, the Oriental Research Institute would not be interested in taking on such a small project. In order to achieve temperature control and sprinkler automation. Oriental Software Company has also specially developed an application applet.

If the Chen family is unwilling to invest, Li Xuan will not need to take these troubles. Just find someone to get him a temperature alarm. However, Chen Xinli's courage is still enough. The loan funds Chen Tao obtained from the bank through his guarantee are not only enough to purchase air conditioners and sprinkler irrigation equipment, but also to carry out the construction of the second phase of greenhouses.

In this case, Li Xuan is also willing to spend some energy to make this project a model project, as a business card for promoting the ap-100 industrial computer in Hong Kong in the future. ap-100 is a general-purpose industrial computer, suitable for the automated production needs of many factories, and the scope of application is not limited to such a small temperature-controlled greenhouse.

"I may need a larger amount of roses for my wedding in May. If you can supply it here, I don't need to import it from abroad!" Li Xuan said, this is the main purpose of his visit today.

"Li Sheng, how much do you need? If it doesn't exceed 100,000, I can eat it here!" Chen Tao asked cautiously without agreeing in a big way.

"100,000 flowers should be enough. I'll call someone to contact you tomorrow. Whether it's enough or not, I'll give priority to purchasing from you!" Li Xuan suggested with a smile, "Hong Kong's flower market is not small, if you do a good job in the future Other higher value-added flowers can also be grown. Like phalaenopsis. Every year the New Year's Eve flower market in Victoria Park is very popular!”

"Brother, in addition to red roses, there are white roses and yellow roses here!" Li Ying walked over with a slightly surprised tone holding a bouquet of roses.

She picked out all the red roses in her hand and handed them to Li Xuan. I only have white roses left: "bring these for you to please the second sister-in-law!"

Li Xuan smiled and took the rose. The flower language of red roses is passion and true love, while the flower language of white roses is purity and innocence.

There were two when they came, and three when they came back. Zheng Chengyi and Li Xuan also returned to the experimental building of Shatin Oriental Research Institute. Today can be said to be the first actual application debugging of ap-100 computer, and Zheng Chengyi came to the scene to take a look.

"After the ap-100 is launched, the follow-up development of various functional modules must also follow up immediately!" said Li Xuan.

There are up to 6 external card slots on the ap-100 industrial computer, which can realize various functions by configuring different external components. For example, installing a data acquisition card. It can strengthen the computer data acquisition and analysis capabilities, so that the ap-100 computer has a wider range of applications in industrial testing, laboratory analysis and other fields.

Zheng Chengyi nodded, he was the general manager of the industrial control project. In addition to the completed ap-100 computer, the Oriental Research Institute is also developing products such as industrial control single-board computers, and is preparing to form a rich and completed product library for users to choose from.

"The as-n operating system developed by Dongfang Software is still easy to use!" Li Xuan asked.

The ap-100 industrial computer does not use the as-os operating system as the previous ab series computers, but uses the new as-n operating system. Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. has obtained the development authorization of n from Bell Labs in 1980, and can develop its own n version of the operating system.

For ordinary people, the only computer operating systems that they usually come into contact with are the series of Microsoft's Big Devil. In the enterprise market, srr has not been able to dominate the world as it is in the field of personal computers. Its main competitor is n.

The n operating system was developed by two Bell Labs researchers in the late 1960s and gradually spread after being rewritten in the language in 1973. Bell Labs didn't take the operating system seriously at the time.

So that the source code of n spread rapidly. When Bell Labs began to realize its commercial value in 1979, because the source code had already been scattered, it could not be gathered for fine commercial development.

So Bell Labs simply broke the jar and adopted the model of external authorization, and the research institution used it free of charge. Enterprise use to pay license fee. Li Xuan obtained the development authorization of the n system from Bell Labs early.

His idea was very clear from the beginning, the personal-level operating system adopts as-os. Make the software as easy to use and feature-rich as possible. For enterprise-level products that require higher stability and security, a more concise and stable n system is used.

n From birth to gradually before commercial application. For almost 10 years, he was "raised in a boudoir and unknown to anyone". It is during such a long period of time that Bell Labs, other scientific research institutions and universities have continued to demonstrate and modify the n-system.

When all n is commercialized, the system is already very perfect, which is the fundamental reason why n has been firmly controlled for a long time and has high requirements on stability and security in the enterprise-level market. It is naturally impossible for other commercial software to spend such a long time to find program loopholes, and a lot of holes and patches will inevitably be left in the software.

For example, the Microsoft system of later generations has been sprayed since its birth, and there are as many loopholes as sieves. It's not that Microsoft's developers are too technical, but the entire system. There are tens of millions of lines of code. Finding program loopholes is a huge project, and Microsoft can't spend years looking for loopholes.

The as-os system previously developed by Dongfang Software also has one million lines of code. Li Xuan also cannot spend too much time looking for system vulnerabilities. Instead, he will choose to add patches to solve the discovered vulnerabilities.

"This set of as-n is pretty good, but the interface seems to be biased towards b-n?" Zheng Chengyi asked.

Li Xuan nodded his head and said, "The as-n of Dongfang Software is developed by the American R&D Center. Most of the members of the development team are experts dug from Berkeley University (b) by the company!"

Berkeley's version of the n system, in addition to the official Bell Labs version. The most influential version. For this reason, Bell Labs also took Berkeley University to court on the pretext of infringement, and wanted to block this version through legal means.

"We Berkeley are indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!" Zheng Chengyi said proudly.

Only then did Li Xuan remember that the person in front of him was an alumnus of the University of Berkeley, and he was naturally proud of his alma mater.

The shortage of software development talents in Hong Kong is a very real dilemma. It was not easy to get together a research and development team to develop an as-os system before. And n is an existing system, which is not the same as developing a new system.

Before developing as-os, it was like drawing on white paper, so you don't need to worry too much. And develop n new version. Like dancing with shackles, a deep understanding of n is required. And Hong Kong just doesn't have the talent in this area. After the continuous expansion of the US R&D center of Dongfang Software, the number of engineers has exceeded that of the headquarter in Hong Kong~www.readwn.com~ is responsible for the follow-up development of the as-os operating system and the as-bas database software. And the development of the new as-n operating system, and the Hong Kong headquarters is mainly responsible for the follow-up development of the o series of office software.

Once the operating system has formed a market monopoly, its importance is far from that of other application software. Li Xuan is also prepared for such a division of labor as Dongfang Software. Give some people more peace of mind and reduce their excuses for attacking Eastern Software in the future. Moreover, in Li Xuan's plan, Dongfang Software will also go to Nasdaq for listing in the future.

Compared with the ap industrial computer, another user of the as-n system, the workstation computer of Aikang, is also under intense research and development. Another name for a workstation is a server, which is more powerful than an ordinary personal computer.

The most famous workstation computer on the market today is the Apollo Computer Company, which uses Motorola's 68000 processor.

The performance of the r-1 developed by the Oriental Research Institute before is a little rudimentary, so Li Xuan did not plan to use the r architecture to build a workstation computer, but set his sights on the ps jointly developed by the Oriental Research Institute and the development team of Professor Hennessy of Stanford University. architecturally. (To be continued..)