Riding the wind of rebirth

Speaking of X86, we have to mention another great technology company-Intel.

As early as 16, Intel released a new 8086-bit microprocessor "86", which also ushered in a new era: the x[-] architecture was born.

In order for the computer to work, it must be given instructions, and such instructions will form a set and be solidified in the microprocessor.

This instruction set solidified in the 8086 microprocessor is called x86.

It defines the basic rules for using INTEL chips. With the development of computer technology, this instruction set family continues to grow, moving from desktops to notebooks, servers, supercomputers, and portable devices. During this period, it also frustrated or restricted the development of many competitors. , making many processor manufacturers and their architecture technologies historical names.

And it itself not only made Intel the most powerful, but also became an industry standard. Its status in the PC industry is like Taishan Beidou. x86 can also be seen in countless powerful multi-core processors in later generations.

The biggest assister here is IBM.

The CPU is the core of the computer, but the CPU alone cannot constitute a computer system. Therefore, many peripheral facilities are needed to match it. The thing that connects all these facilities with the CPU is called the "motherboard" in the device, and in engineering It's called "bus" on the drawing.

Intel builds the central processor and brain, and IBM builds the body, facial features, limbs, and internal organs, and ultimately transforms the brain into a "robot" that can receive information, process information, store information, and output information.

Now IBM has opened this method to Clover. Of course, it is not to let Clover learn to develop its own computers, but to make it easier for Clover to understand itself and provide better services for itself.

Of course, it is not impossible for Clover Company to insist on R&D, but it would have to bypass the extremely deep and thick intellectual property barriers contained in this method, which is almost impossible.

There is even a kind of arrogance that makes Clover Company "give up on difficulties". For example, Microsoft lets Clover Company develop VC, but it still locks most of the intellectual property rights in exchange for Clover Company getting the streaming media interface. Using development qualifications is even more embarrassing.

In the eyes of the two large companies, the life of Clover, a melon and egg, can only be a coolie. It is equivalent to a large number of outsourcing business undertaking companies that are popular in the third brother's country in later generations. He is a glorious wage earner of large Western companies.

However, Zhou Zhi is a person who has been there, so he naturally knows the future development trend.

There is an opportunity for "overtaking in corners" hidden here.

With the development of the Internet, open source Linux will receive support from software enthusiasts, organizations, and companies around the world.

In addition to maintaining strong development momentum in servers, it will also make great progress in personal computers and embedded systems.

Users can not only intuitively obtain the implementation mechanism of the operating system, but also modify and improve it according to their own needs, so that it can best meet the needs of users and make it more powerful at the same time.

In addition to being open source and free, Linux also has its own unique advantages.

Its system performance is extremely stable, and its core firewall components are highly efficient and simple to configure, which can ensure the security of the system to the greatest extent.

Therefore, in many subsequent enterprise networks, in order to pursue speed and security, Linux was not only used by network operation and maintenance personnel as a server, but even as a network firewall.

And because of its open source code, no copyright, and many users in the technical community, it allows users to complete development at a very low cost, with free tailoring, high flexibility, and powerful functions. In particular, the network protocol stack embedded in the system only requires simple configuration to realize the function of the router. These characteristics make Linux an ideal development platform for developing routing and switching equipment.

When the information age leaps from the "stand-alone era" to the "network age", then further to the "mobile era", and then further to the "Internet of Things era", these advantages will be fully stimulated.

If Linux is changed and is still used as the kernel, only the GNU components are removed, and replaced with an operating system developed by Andy Rubin that is still free and open source and mainly serves the operating system of mobile devices and digital cameras, then what is it then?

That's Android. Gaining abnormal vitality due to open source, many competitors such as Symbian, BlackBerry, Palm OS, Web OS and even Windows Phone have become history, making Apple's iOS the only Android that can still compete with it.

Then it evolved into the initial state of another intelligent system in the East. When that system grew up and Android became dispensable, it emerged from the little green caterpillar of Android and began its own beauty. .

This is Hongmeng.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi now uses seemingly unfair treatment to exchange the intellectual property rights of window controls from Microsoft, and preemptively deploys them to the transformation of window controls and the development of visual development tools for Linux systems. Could he have suffered a loss?
Today, the last one of the five pillars that support the development of Linux - Unix operating system, MINIX operating system, GNU project, POSIX standard and Internet network.

It can be said that everything is ready, all that is needed is the east wind.

However, knowing this did not prevent Zhou Zhi from complaining in front of Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi, and also allowed Matsui Zuo to relax some of his thoughts on Clover Company.

After all, this is still a company that is controlled by others and has no independent development ideas. It may have many advantages, but it never poses a strategic threat.

Since Microsoft can't get around it, VC can't take advantage, and VUC is useless and not worth exchanging several technologies at its disposal. Then it's better to focus on the results Clover has achieved so far. Come up.

So everyone changed the topic to the work that will be carried out in the near future, namely the second and third level fonts of the Hanwen large font library, and the construction of the UNICODE Chinese, Japanese and Korean ideographic area.

In fact, these are just two conceptual things. In careful planning, when the third-level font of Hanwen Large Font Library is completed, it will be the time when the UNICODE Chinese, Japanese and Korean Ideographic Characters Region is completed.

The only adjustment is that the earliest three-level font design was all Chinese characters, but now it has been expanded to include Japanese and Korean ideograms and Japanese and Korean pinyin characters.

In order to dilute the percentage of this part of text symbols, he thoughtfully and geniusly introduced the concept of "Chinese ideographic symbols", believing that text is actually just a type of symbol, and many symbols that are not included as text actually fully carry this text. meaning.

For example, Tai Chi diagrams, Bagua symbols, and even symbols on Mahjong tiles can all be included.

This is not only good for China, but also good for Japan and South Korea. For example, the flag of Goryeo has Tai Chi and the Four Trigrams?

Another example is the island country's unique "rice seal" used in annotations, that is, "※"; and the "〒" that represents postal services, followed by the zip code, should they also be included?
This suggestion is very reasonable and very constructive. Therefore, Matsui Zuo and Kim Chunyi not only have no reason to refute, but also strongly support it.

Both of them agreed with Zhou Zhi's view that the "China, Japan, and Korea Ideographic Characters Region" should be renamed "the China, Japan, and Korea Ideographic Characters Region", and the three countries jointly wrote a proposal to the UNICODE organization.

As for the result that the proportion of the symbols of the two countries in this region is increasingly "diluted"... Who makes Chinese characters have a long history and a wide variety of symbols?