Chapter 116 Legendary Chip
The director of post and telecommunications asked: "What invention, if it is useful, of course it is very necessary."
Li Sanbiao said: "It is a machine that translates telegrams. It can translate telegrams into telegrams, then restore them into telegrams, and print them out. As for input, just use Wubi, I invented, to type."
The post and telecommunications director said: "What did you invent?"
Li Sanbiao said with a thick face: "What I invented is a Chinese input method called Wubi typing method. As long as you use this input method, you can easily enter Chinese on the computer and then convert it into a code. In this way, anyone only needs one week.
, you can master the Wubi input method and become a translator. It doesn’t take a few years to memorize the four-code telegram meter!"
The post and telecommunications director said in surprise, "Can this still be like this? Actually, you also know that our post office attaches great importance to computers and has bought a lot of computers, but it didn't even have a Chinese system and it was not useful at all. If you can transform them, change them.
The translation motor is so good!”
Li Sanbiao said: "Don't worry, there is no difficulty in computers that I can't solve!"
Xiaowei laughed out loud: "You are so arrogant. A computer costs tens of thousands of yuan, don't break it."
Li Sanbiao said: "That's it. I think the performance requirements of this computer are not very high. It's enough to get an Apple!"
Li Sanbiao got an Apple computer with a processor of 6507 and 32K memory, with a maximum resolution of 6 colors at 280x192!
As for the hard drive, the standard configuration of IBM computers at that time was not available at all!
Li Sanbiao took two Apple computers and one 8086 back to his factory under the banner of experiments.
And this 8086 actually has 64K memory, up to 4 megabit hard drives, and is also equipped with an extremely advanced A drive, which is a 3.5-inch floppy disk!
Apple 2 is relatively affordable, but the 32K memory version also costs $1,200. There is a floppy disk that can run Apple DOS. It costs four or five thousand to ship to China.
8086 is already expensive, and the configuration is unclear and there is no unified price, so there is even more room for tricks. Zhongguancun vendors often slaughter a lot, often tens of thousands of yuan, and 20,000 to 30,000 soft sister coins.
The director reminded: "Biaozi, don't ruin it! This is precious! It is a fixed asset of our bureau!"
Li Sanbiao asked him to rest assured and took it to his home. The third uncle thought it was too difficult to write a set of software based on these original systems.
Although the third uncle is a supercomputer, he has only collected some open source materials,
And he hates Mac systems like Jobs, which eat alone behind closed doors and refuses to open source for stability.
The biggest reason why Apple computers fail to PCs is that they are not open source.
In terms of configuration, the performance of Apple Type 2 computer is quite poor, only equivalent to an Atari gaming machine, so it uses a closed system to increase stability.
The third uncle tried to write to the Chinese font library in the Apple system. After failing one after another and repeatedly tossing several times, he thought that the best way was to flash the Apple system.
The third uncle quickly wrote a Chinese DOS system named Beidou.
Then write to the read-only memory of the Mac and replace the original system.
Li Sanbiao was doing it while scolding. Jobs' grandson was so swearing. This thing is not so much a computer, but more suitable for performance-based learning machines!
This has to start from the 1970s. At that time, the overlord of the international chip industry, besides Fairchild Company in Silicon Valley, was the communications giant Motorola.
But because Motorola broke out with a big melon, an open source processor, and a technology leak!
Many people know that in the early and mid-1970s, most general-purpose computers used Motorola 6800 processors.
The reason why 6800 can be achieved is that it invented a technology that does not require masks, reducing the cost to one-something before.
However, after Motorola made money with the 6800 processor, it did not give the inventors the corresponding reward, and also asked them to continue to develop new processors.
While studying the new processor, several technicians simply resigned this time, and with technology, they set up a MOS company and invented the 6800 improved 6507 processor,
Motorola quickly sued MOS and these technicians,
MOS companies are all cruel people, and they don’t do it any longer. In anger, they simply open up their architecture and become a global open source processor!
As a result, in the following years, the global electronics industry was like the New Year.
Most companies do not have the ability to independently develop an advanced chip,
Motorola's free chip design drawings are simply falling from the sky, cheap and good, no need to be used.
This processor also caught up with a good time. It happened to be the golden period of rapid development of personal computers (actually game consoles), from the late 1970s to the 1980s.
So this 6507,6502 series semi-open source 8-bit processor, which is more advanced than the Motorola 6800, began to sweep the global gaming market because its cost is far lower than the 16-bit 8086.
The first to use this chip is the Atari 2600 game console with a sales of 15 million units.
Then Jobs's million-selling Apple computer also adopted this 6507,
Next is Nintendo, which uses the 6502 chip copied by Ricoh.
Then there is Xiaobawang game console, all kinds of learning machines, all with 6502 packs to conquer the world...
Therefore, in the early 1980s, computers were able to enter the home on a large scale. The explosion of two generations of Atari and Nintendo game consoles was caused by Motorola's great melon, spreading advanced and commercially available chip technologies of the same era.
Li Sanbiao is using this translation machine, so he is naturally following the trend of the times and using this cheap 6502 chip.
However, Li Sanbiao is unwilling to follow Apple to form a closed software ecosystem because he has a way to make 6502 a dual-core CPU, and through future motherboard technology, multiple CPUs and GPUs can work together!
This will be a cheap computer that uses cheap chips but has 8086 machine performance!
Later, almost all learning machines in my country also used this chip, which can also have built-in wps.
After Li Sanbiao and the third uncle jointly analyzed that Xiaobawang and the others probably used this method!
Therefore, there was a Chinese system and Chinese character software in 1981, which is absolutely impossible!
Of course, there are still many hardware that needs to be parsed.
"Parse MOS 6502 chip!"
"Parse memory!"
"Parse 3.5-inch floppy disk..."
The 6502 chip is not high-end, but as a general-purpose chip, it is far more complicated than the chips printed by Li Sanbiao in the past. Its complex internal structure makes Li Sanbiao dizzy.
This kind of chip also has much higher requirements for equipment and environment. Although Li Sanbiao can do this chip production line, it must be kept in good condition. Therefore, the quantum robot spent a whole day to maintain the equipment.
Soon, the robot carved a 6502 improved by the third uncle. This chip was actually modified by many companies.
However, this time the modified 6502 is dual-core, and its performance is 1.5 times higher than that of the ordinary model.
This is not enough. Li Sanbiao made two CPU bases on the motherboard, and two dual-core pieces were installed, which was even better than 8086.
Chapter completed!