Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 780 Li Leshan

So Zhou Zhi had no choice but to give Li Qiyan an overview of the coding work of Unicode, and at the same time, the urgency of this matter, and estimated the time to market of Microsoft's Windows system in [-], and set the deadline for the completion of the large font library. In [-].

Speaking of it, there is only one and a half years left, which is quite urgent for completing such a major event.

However, according to Zhou Zhi's introduction, if this is the case, the Chinese character code will become the largest part of the world's texts. The [-]-level Chinese character code will be deployed in advance on the eve of the advent of the information age, whether it is for the development of the future or the inheritance of the past. , Needless to say, it is a great event with infinite merit.

Therefore, it became a matter of course for Zhou Zhi to attract the attention of the important person and ask him to go to the West Flower Hall to explain the meaning of this job.

This incident gave Li Qiyan a huge inspiration. To use a rough metaphor, he also needs a suitable vote.

But the mainland sent people to approach him, and now it seems that Director Wang is just the deputy, and Zhou Zhi is the real master.

This is actually a soft ladder given by the above, to see if the bigwigs on Hong Kong Island are willing to climb up the ladder and climb upwards.

Now that Zhou Zhi has gradually grasped the pulse, he is inexplicably impressed by the above methods and methods. This should be a typical example of not giving in on matters of principle, being flexible on non-principle issues, and using strategies to explain methods when doing things.

After listening to Zhou Zhi's introduction, Li Qiyan understood what was going on. Before that, he had completely misunderstood, thinking that the purpose of Zhou Zhi and Director Wang's visit was to kidnap his two precious Buddhist scriptures with empty words.

Now it seems that this is not the case at all. If the large font library is really successful, it will be a big event that can be remembered in history; if it is really adopted by the WINDOWS system, it will be a big event. That will have a considerable impact on the academic status, economic interests, and industry influence of my boss.

And by actively promoting this matter, I can show my firm determination to stand with the central government, achieve mutual understanding and trust for the next big event, and lay a solid foundation for cooperation.

The next major event, to put it nicely, is called saving the economy of Hong Kong Island. To put it bluntly, it is just two words-buying the bottom!
Li Qiyan is a person who has experienced many turbulent times. In his eyes, the future of Hong Kong Island that others do not see well, or is not optimistic about, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Now it seems that it is no longer as simple as taking advantage of the opportunity to earn a fortune and enjoying it for several generations, but a situation where the wind and the clouds meet, the fortunes intersect, and one step forward, the sea and the sky are boundless!
Zhou Zhi didn't expect Li Qiyan to have so many thoughts running through his head. Hearing that Li Leshan had already boarded the return flight, he couldn't help being overjoyed: "Professor Leshan is returning to Hong Kong today? Or is he here for us?"

Li Qiyan thought for a while, and decided to be honest: "He also has pressure. I heard that until now, some people think that hieroglyphs are too complicated. What is the input system... It is a waste of resources, and they think that they should focus on solving what... the Y[-]K problem Question, do you know what the millennium bug is?"

Zhou Zhi smiled: "The Y[-]K problem is actually not complicated. The malfunction of the program is called BUG. This word coincides with the English word for worm."

"In the previous computer systems and programs, in order to save one byte of space during operation, the four-digit year was saved as a two-digit year. For example, this year is 1993, and it becomes 93 years in the system."

"There was no big problem in doing this, but after the last day of 99, it should have been 2000, but because one byte was used less, this led to a wrong judgment in the program, originally from 1999 to 2000 99 has now become a change from 0 to 100, and it should have been turned over by one year, but it has become minus [-] years."

"The information industry calls this problem the Y2K BUG, ​​and the Chinese translation is called the Millennium Bug. As long as the time counter is extended by one byte, this problem can be solved."

"Then the solution doesn't sound difficult?" Li Qiyan was a little puzzled: "Then why are the boss and the others still so nervous?"

Zhou Zhi said: "The main reason is that there are too many systems now, and there are too many applications running in the systems, from BIOS, microcode, operating system, database, application programs to hardware equipment, mechanical equipment, solidified chips, etc., all have this problem. .”

"It is a huge task to find out which software and hardware have such problems, determine how much impact these bugs will have after they break out, and then fix them all through various technical means."

"Exactly, this matter just in turn confirms how important what we are doing now is. In order to save one byte of storage and operation space, it will cause such a huge problem now. For a system, Even if the BUG itself is unavoidable, we must consider its scalability, remediation, and compatibility in advance.”

"For large fonts, even if we can't completely transplant them to the information system for the time being, we can still consider its design concept and implementation method in advance, prepare technical reserves and process documents, and structure the underlying protocol. When the conditions are ripe, it can be expanded and put into use immediately.”

"Well said!" An excited voice sounded from the door: "This is the teacher who never forgets the past and the future!"

"Boss!" Li Qiyan was both surprised and delighted: "Didn't you say you only came back today? Why so fast?"

"Brother." Li Lehai also stood up: "Haven't you eaten yet? Uncle Long, please add some bowls and chopsticks to Big Brother."

"I booked the ticket after talking on the phone yesterday, and it happened that there was a bus that was the closest." Li Leshan was about 50 to [-] years old, and he was in the prime of life. He looked at Fang Zheng, but his eyes became calm and wise because of his education. Scholar's unique bearing and self-restraint.

Zhou Zhi had seen this kind of peaceful and wise gaze in the eyes of many people. The funniest thing was that Jiang Shuyi said that he had the same gaze, but Zhou Zhi himself couldn't believe it.

"Professor Leshan." Zhou Zhi quickly stood up and said hello, "It will take [-] hours to fly from the United States to Hong Kong Island, right? Why don't you take a good rest today, and we will visit another day?"

"No need, no need, staying up late is common in our business." Li Leshan stretched out his hand: "You are Zhou Zhi, right? I received calls from my father and Minister Hu yesterday. It was proposed by a high school graduate!"

"And you have also made most of the dot matrix characters, scanning and collection programs, and automatic recognition program solutions, which is quite remarkable!"

Zhou Zhi hurriedly shook hands with Li Leshan, who is now the light of the Chinese.

Speaking of the top of any circle, Li Leshan, for example, is a person who often drinks coffee with Lao Qiao.

This circle is full of legends, and the most important thing is that the wealth accumulation effect is too obvious. There is a famous saying in later generations to describe this industry, that is, as long as you stand on the wind, a pig can fly.

But there is another kind of more powerful character, they don't need to stand on the wind, because they create the wind that can blow pigs up.

Facing such a character, Zhou Zhi was very humble: "No, no, I was interested in the writing system at the beginning, and then I was inspired by the ASCII code, so I came up with this immature idea."

(End of this chapter)