Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 847 Engineering Trap
"It's not a secret either, but we haven't finished the last step yet, and we haven't started promoting it."

"This speed is amazing, it should be six Galaxy, right?" The fourth cousin's knowledge of computers is limited to what he read in newspapers, curious: "Then how do you know?"

"Because Professor Li Guojie is in charge of the project, the operating system used by Sugon is the domestic system SNIX developed on the basis of UNIX. It happens that our Shu University laboratory also uses UNIX, which is also the research and development platform for the Unicode large font library."

"The Chinese character system equipped on Galaxy is Wubi input method, D2000 Chinese character only terminal and ZD-1110 character display terminal. After evolution to Dawn, a more advanced Chinese character processing system is naturally needed, based on Unicode on the same operating system, of course. It has become Professor Li's first choice."

"That's right!" Xu Youzhi slapped his thigh: "Just now Director Wu said, first solve the problem of whether there is any problem, and then solve the problem of whether it is good or not. Even if this Unicode large font library can't be done on a small computer, it can be done on a supercomputer. Get up! This is another way to solve it first, and then solve it!"

Although this kind of statement is not quite in line with the actual situation, it is also an explanation that is easy for people to understand. Zhou Zhi had to skip this section: "Because of this relationship, Shu University is working hard on the research and development of the font library, and the time left for us is only one month. .”

"And Professor Li is very stingy, he doesn't allocate supercomputing resources to us at all." Speaking of Zhou Zhi, Professor Hei Li said: "Fortunately, we now have a new laboratory in Sichuan University, with a few more minicomputers. Barely able to complete the task."

"However, what I'm talking about is the engineering trap that will have a huge impact on the future, not this aspect," Zhou Zhi said, "but the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge."

"Ah?" Zhao Shangzhong couldn't understand at all: "How can it be related to the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge?"

"Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is certainly a huge engineering achievement after the founding of New China, but the design of the net height was actually 26 meters at the earliest."

"But hesitantly, the country was in a difficult time at that time. The experts who reviewed the plan raised a question, that is, whether it is possible to reduce the height to 24 meters under the condition of ensuring the passage of [-]-ton ships and save a little cost."

"This plan was opposed by the shipping department at the time. They believed that although the clearance of 24 meters can guarantee the passage of [-] tons most of the time, it cannot be guaranteed in special periods such as flood tides, and even only [-] tons can be passed in wet seasons. Class ships will seriously affect shipping efficiency."

"Out of cost considerations, the bridge was finally designed according to 24 meters. The idea was that what my godfather said just now, we should first solve the problem of whether there is any problem. It is also in line with what my fourth cousin said just now. 26 meters is a bit too high. There are not many wheels at all."

"However, after the completion of the bridge, the development of shipping on the Yangtze River was basically restricted. The subsequent Yangtze River Bridge was designed according to the net height of the Nanjing Bridge, so that the theoretical possibility of a [-]-ton ship arriving in Yichang completely disappeared."

"The design of our Chinese character library is actually very similar to this problem," Zhou Zhi said, "The old agreement was tinkered with, and there was also an upper limit of Chinese character encoding, and the ceiling was only [-] code points."

"It is barely enough now, and there are even a lot of redundancy, but our Chinese characters are obviously small. When computer technology can be applied to many aspects in the future, we will inevitably face the problem that many Chinese characters cannot be input."

"The simplest example is the digitization project of ancient books. I am afraid that more than half of the rare characters can only be turned into boxes."

"When the protocol needs to be replaced at that time, then all Chinese character processing systems developed based on this protocol will need to be overthrown and redeveloped, and there will be an additional problem of transcoding and compatibility of the two protocol codes, which will require additional support for all Chinese characters. The processing program develops a set of compatibility patches. Otherwise, the data previously stored in the system cannot be interpreted with the new protocol, and the previous informatization work will be in vain.”

"This means that all the bridges on the Yangtze River need to be demolished and rebuilt to solve the problem of the 25-ton ship arriving in Yichang." Zhou Zhi said meaningfully: "Is this still possible today, [-] years after the Nanjing Bridge was built? "

"I just said why the country attaches so much importance to it!" Zhao Shangzhong was startled awake from his drunkenness: "I couldn't figure out why you were beaten to death before, and why even the ministries and commissions were alarmed when you mentioned this, and they dragged you to the capital to report... What a big pit to avoid in the future!"

In fact, shipping is a complex subject, focusing on the transportation of bulk cargo. As far as the Yangtze River waterway is concerned, it is most suitable for transporting grain, coal, steel, oil, cement, sand, etc.; or industrial products such as large machinery and automobiles.

Many of these industries are industries with excess production capacity. There is no rigid demand for transportation, or there are other transportation methods that do not necessarily rely on shipping.

In addition, there are safety problems caused by large ships entering rivers and waterways, as well as traffic bottlenecks caused by water conservancy projects.

However, it is very appropriate to use it as an example to let people here understand the importance of a large font library.

Almost everyone in the room didn't understand how important this matter was until now, and praised Zhou Zhi.

Didn't they praise Zhou Zhi's understanding of information technology? No matter how strong he is in this area, he can't compete with a real expert.

The main thing is to praise him for seeing things at such a high level. This is the real merit that will benefit future generations.

The fourth cousin was a little puzzled: "Our country's information technology is still very weak. How come so many experts haven't thought of this problem, and they need to be reminded?"

"It's a fact that the technology is weak." Zhou Zhi admitted: "Projects like ours can't deploy even a little bit of the country's supercomputing resources, which shows how scarce and tight the resources are."

"But this problem can be solved with a minicomputer. The main problem is consciousness." Zhou Zhi was a little bit aggrieved when he said this: "Those who understand text don't understand computers, and those who understand computers don't understand text."

Speaking of this, I couldn't help but swear in front of the elders: "Who made information technology all sciences?! They can't even recognize the [-] commonly used words in the existing word library, so how can they be expected to think of it?" These?!"

"You want to be arrogant, aren't you?!" My mother gave Zhou Zhi the back of the head as soon as she started, "Dare to swear in front of the elders, he is still a science student!"

Yang He quickly raised his hand: "I prove that what Yaozi said is right, but I can't read all five thousand characters..."

After Zhou Zhi got cleaned up, he hurriedly explained: "It's not arrogance, grief and anger, pure grief and anger..."

"Yeah, Yang He seems to be a computer engineering major too?" Zhao Shangzhong cast an earnest look at Yang He: "Any liberal arts student can make contributions in this area, you have to work harder..."

Yang He: "..."

(End of this chapter)