Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1250
"Because the backstage owner of the nightclub is a friend of my parents." Of course Zhou Zhi would not explain it too clearly to these two people: "Otherwise, how could my parents let me work there with confidence?"

"Yo Xi, that's the truth. With Zhou Zhi's charm, if no one restrains him, he will definitely be torn apart by the ladies in the nightclub!" Matsui Zuo nodded repeatedly and praised Zhou Zhi blindly.

"I heard that the best nightclub in Shudu is called Roppongi?" Jin Chunyi had only arrived in Shudu for a few days and had already inquired about the place: "Is it modeled after Roppongi in Ginza?"

"Roppongi?" Zhou Zhi thought for a moment: "It's very lively, but it's more suitable for men in their 20s to [-]s. For successful people like you two, Peace Dove Nightclub is more suitable."

"Understood, then when we return to the capital of Shu, it will be up to you, Jiuzi." Matsui Zao picked up the wine glass again: "Here, let's have another drink!"

Nowadays, nightclubs have begun to provide various "flexible" services. Zhou Zhi feels that Guan Tingting is no longer suitable for singing in nightclubs, and this is also taken into consideration.

Yellow "foreign guests" like Matsui Zo and Kim Chunyi are said to be the kind of "favorites" that ladies like most. They are rich, polite, and well... the service time does not take too long.

Food and sex. After enjoying eating, drinking, and chatting with women, Matsui felt that our friendship was almost complete, so he said: "Zhou Sang, your company's operating system has many patents, right?"

"Mr. Matsui, why are you asking about this?" The taste of the sake is very light, Zhou Zhi feels that it is not much different from the clear mash water, and asked: "There must be a lot of patents, but Mr. Matsui, don't worry too much, because it is for Object programming tools are currently only available to Microsoft and Apple. Mr. Matsui wouldn’t think that the computing center donated by IBM and Microsoft in our school was pure charity for no reason, right?”

"The elbow means..." Matsui Zou pondered for a moment: "Is your system their outsourcing business?"

"This is a systematic patent tree." Zhou Zhi said: "Our VC tool is developed based on Microsoft's fourth generation C++. Therefore, even though we have developed various UNIX-based control objects, we still cannot get around it. We open Microsoft patents, so almost all patent packages are cross-shared patent ownership with Microsoft."

"But UNIX is based on the GNU protocol. Can you bypass the GPL sharing terms?"

"What we just discussed was ownership." Zhou Zhi and Matsui Zoukin Junyi both clinked their cups: "What the GPL terms share is the right to use. Do you understand this explanation?"

"Then this part authorizes us, can it be used by island countries and peninsulas?" Matsui asked.

"We are working with Microsoft and the Free Software Foundation to discuss the openness and opening timetable of object controls."

"What about C++? Does Microsoft have a timetable for opening up C++?"

"As far as I know, this also exists," Zhou Zhi nodded: "But this software package is too big. Currently, no PC can carry such a large capacity."

"The compilation environment is also a problem. Various compilers, database engines, etc. also require a lot of space and computing power."

"So you still have to use small computers, medium-sized computers, or even large computers." Zhou Zhi said: "But using these equipment involves another problem..."

"The problem of resource sharing." Matsui Zuo is also an expert and immediately said: "Microsoft's operating system does not have enough support for multi-threading, so we still have to switch back to UNIX."

"Yes!" Jin Chunyi also nodded: "At least Microsoft hasn't developed a multi-threaded operating system yet, right?"

The biggest difference between WINDOWS system and UNIX system is that WINDOWS is a personal operating system and is for one person. The supporting hardware includes host computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse, etc. The UNIX system is used by many people. The host is usually a high-performance server such as a minicomputer or a mainframe, and the devices connected to it are networks, routers, and terminal devices.

Therefore, a UNIX system workstation is equivalent to a computer with super computing power connected to many monitors and keyboards, which can be used by many people at the same time.

For everyone, it seems like they are operating a computer, but in fact they are only using a part of the resources on the host. Because of UNIX's unique user management, file permission management, share management and other functions, the right to use resources is very clear. .

In an era when system resources are very precious, this method is undoubtedly the most efficient method, and based on such a special mechanism, it also has special advantages for engineering collaboration.

Because everyone's work is done on one machine, all programs are placed in one place, and the entire system does not need to be copied and passed around, making management much easier.

"So we need two development environments and compilation environments." Zhou Zhi said: "One is the business that Microsoft outsources to us, and that is the development of VC tools."

"The other one should be the visual control shell developed for UNIX, right?"

"The visual control shell is a product." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "There is another visual tool for developing this shell, which is VUC."

"Have you already reached this point in research and development?" Matsui was very surprised. Has China's software development capabilities reached this point?
People who engage in program development in later generations have a very hard-working name called "code farmers". There are as many software development practitioners as there are crucian carp crossing the river.

But programmers are not called "coders" from the beginning. For example, in the year Zhou Zhi lived, "coders" were still the "proud sons of heaven."

But there is one pain point that China has been experiencing for a long time, and that is the fact that there are millions of coders in the world, but basically none of the development tools they use, that is, the ones they feed themselves, are made in China.

Almost all development tools, various programming software, database software, music processing software, and graphics processing software are imported from abroad.

Until the era when Zhou Zhi traveled back, China was already very powerful, and it still had not gotten rid of this embarrassment in the category of developing software tools.

Because China started too late, numerous patent obstacles are unavoidable.

Even if the core of the UNIX system is open source, there is still a "dispute for voice" in the various layers of protocols, interfaces, controls, application software, etc. that are superimposed on it.

For example, is it necessary for a system to have a basic word processing system? Because of the open source nature of UNIX, you can develop it, and so can I. Whoever develops software that is used by the most people will have the right to speak on UNIX's text processing accessories.

The rest is simple. Assuming that there are [-] shared patents involved in this system, then a large company that owns [-] of them will have a greater say in the system than a small company that only owns [-]. many.

There is nothing new under the sun. Wherever there are people, there is the world.

Of course Matsui Zao understood these truths. He was shocked that Zhou Zhi had already led his team into this world.

(End of this chapter)