Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1819: Programming Software is Still Needed

However, Zhou Zhi also has his own opinion. He believes that although the Zheng-Zhang system is a huge progress in ancient phonology, it still has huge problems.

The problem is that “elegant language is not elegant” and it is difficult to prove its own persuasiveness.

There are also controversies in the inference of some syllables. For example, these three major systems were influenced by Russian scholars, and they constructed large and small tongue-twisting sounds in the inference. However, this has hardly been preserved in the Chinese and pan-Chinese areas. Therefore, Zhou Zhi feels that whether it existed in ancient times needs to be discussed.

"In addition to copying others' ideas, you should also do some pioneering research." Gu said, "Prepare for the next two years to lay the foundation for your future doctoral studies."

"Master, you say."

"Study on the Shu language in the Middle and Upper Ancient Period. What do you think of this direction? It should be what you are interested in."

Of course, this was Zhou Zhi's interest, otherwise Zhou Zhi would not have discovered when he secretly read the "Jin Ping Mei" at home that the exclamation "ye le" in it was exactly the same as the usage and pronunciation of the Jiachuan dialect. Zhou Zhi was really tickled.

However, Jin Ping Mei is a work by people from the Ming Dynasty, and can only be considered as near-ancient pronunciation, the Middle and Upper Ancient Shu language. So, in addition to a large number of notes taken by people from Shu, we have to look for traces in the works of several people.

The Three Su brothers, then Yang Xiong, and then Sima Xiangru.

There are also local chronicles from different eras, such as "Huayang Guozhi" and "Sichuan Zongzhi".

Bashu is a land of outstanding people and beautiful scenery. In addition to the above-mentioned great figures, there are also people from Shu who have left behind various poems and articles in every dynasty, such as Yang Shen, Wang Gui, Chen Shou, Chang Qu, etc.

"Your uncle needs help." After Zhou Zhi told the old man his idea and believed that the search engine of the digital library could play a huge role, the old man smiled and said, "You can prepare for this while you are working on the pronunciation of Qieyun and Guangyun in the past two years."

Even the doctoral direction has been preliminarily determined.

However, the matter did not end there. Due to Zhou Zhi's special situation, he needed to ensure that the project could achieve "remote synchronous development", which meant a server accessible through the Internet and convenient software based on network programming.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhi went to the company to learn about the progress in this regard.

An Chunjia has been brought to the capital by Director Song to build the information system needed for the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasty dating project. Among the three little animals, one is hard and the other is soft, respectively managed by Hu Tianyu and Hu Lidong.

In every start-up company, capable people are promoted very quickly, which is why Yang He and Feng Xueshan were able to take up important positions very quickly.

Of course, as the company becomes more formalized, scaled, and rationalized, this phenomenon will become less and less common, and eventually it will even become a bloated enterprise disease. Zhou Zhi is best at delegating power, and he also believes in Li Laosan's "ten-person structure" principle, and he will never face too many people directly.

In the large conference room on the top floor of Digital Plaza, Hu Lidong was introducing the progress of the project to Zhou Zhi.

"Although MINICOS can meet the requirements of remote synchronous development using the Internet, it lacks a 'class library' based on network applications, so its professionalism is somewhat insufficient."

"It's funny to say that our MINICOS was not originally designed as a 'cheap' system to deal with single-chip computer chips. However, once the system appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of people in the field of automatic control."

"Because it can greatly improve the intelligence of consumer electronic products such as TV set-top boxes, bread ovens, mobile phones, etc. Sony first applied it to game consoles, followed by Samsung, Panasonic and other companies also applied MINICOS to their own products."

"Samsung has also taken the lead in mass-producing MCU main chips for MINI COS. In the chip + system MCU market, it has joined hands with Clover to continuously conquer the world with high-quality products and relatively low prices. It has now basically established its position as the industry leader."

"Brother Erhu, you are exaggerating." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The leaders are Samsung and Huahong. We just happened to catch the favorable wind and follow the big guys to the sky."

“Hahaha…” Hu Lidong is younger than Hu Tianyu. Now that they both hold high positions and power, Zhou Zhi doesn’t feel comfortable calling them by nicknames. However, he can’t change his mischievous character, so he respectfully calls Hu Tianyu “Big Brother Hu” and Hu Lidong “Second Brother Hu”.

  "Hahaha..." Hu Lidong was amused by Zhou Zhi's false modesty. The profits from chip production hardware were shared by the three companies, but Clover, which was responsible for instructions and system architecture, took half, and the remaining two companies shared the remaining half. I am also surnamed Hu, what are you talking about with me?!

"Anyway, we've inadvertently killed off a lot of similar products, like Sun's Green project team."

"The team was originally formed by Patrick Norton, James Gosling, Mike Sherindan and several other engineers. At first, they were just interested in the project, but later they were recruited by SUN and started to research and develop new technologies in a small studio on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, specializing in the embedded application of computers in home appliances."

"Due to the advantages of C language, the researchers in this project team have the same idea as you and first considered using C++ to write the program."

"But they also encountered the same problem as us, that is, C++ programs are too complex and large for systems with extremely scarce hardware resources. In addition, due to the variety of embedded processor chips used in consumer electronic products, how to make the written programs run across platforms is also a problem."

"As the saying goes, great minds think alike. To solve the problem, they, like you, first focused on language development. However, they chose a completely different path from Clover."

"They first assumed a hardware platform architecture with a simple structure that meets the needs of embedded applications, and formulated corresponding specifications for it, which defined the binary machine code instruction system of this hardware platform, that is, the microcontroller system specification."

"In their vision, once the language is developed, they can immediately rely on the structured protocol to allow semiconductor chip manufacturers to develop and produce this hardware platform."

"With the structural agreement, the next step is language development. Their ideas in language development are similar to ours. They modified C++ according to the requirements of embedded software, removed some impractical and security-impacting elements in C++, and combined with the real-time requirements of embedded systems, they prepared to develop an object-oriented language called Oak."

"At this time, we began to overtake others and achieved the goal of catching up from behind." When Hu Lidong introduced this, he couldn't help but show admiration for Zhou Zhi, and admired his ability to accurately control the development direction of the information industry.