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Chapter 225 Ark Developer Conference (Part 2)

Although nimbus was announced, Catherine has not yet announced the plug-in.

After announcing the game console, the next step is the main event - the 16-bit machine, the new generation of Pentium computer.

"The following is our company's most important product - Pentium computer"

As Catherine said, the picture on the projection screen had turned into a computer.

"The Pentium computer is our company's new generation product. It will use a 16-bit CPU, a completely 16-bit operating system, and will be backward compatible with current products..."

Catherine did not reveal too much because she and the third party would need to have a discussion later, which would be completely closed.

What Catherine is doing now is actually no different from putting on a show. She mainly wants to let ordinary people know how powerful Catherine's new product is.

"...Pentium Computer, we expect to launch it tomorrow or the year after next. By then, everyone will see a very unique product..."

As for the minicomputer t1, it has just started to be developed. This kind of thing is likely to have unlimited delays. Catherine still doesn't want to release it like this. She will at least wait until the product design is completed to consider it.

After Catherine left, it was the third party's turn to take the stage.

The estimated duration of the conference is three days.

The first day is the promotion of new products, the second day is the software, and the third day is the game launch.

After the conference, the exhibition hall will be open for another fifteen days.

Fifteen days later, the exhibition hall will be closed, and at that time, Catherine will start construction of a new building.

Now, on the stage is the representative of Fairchild Company.

Although Catherine's poaching behavior seemed to make Fairchild Company very angry, it unexpectedly made Fairchild Company start to reflect and adjust the company's strategy. In the company, there are still many technicians who have feelings for them, and now they are like this

, Fairchild Company has vague potential for a renaissance.

Released by Fairchild, it is a coprocessor used to enhance performance.

Because the third party in fc has been approved, this coprocessor can support 16-bit systems.

According to Fairchild's explanation, this co-processor can be used to improve floating-point computing capabilities, with excellent results, which can greatly enhance the running speed of the computer.

After Fairchild released their product, their old enemy Texas Electric Company also came forward.

They also developed a coprocessor.

The surrounding audience could immediately see that the two companies were at odds with each other...

Although these unexpected situations occurred for Catherine, what reassured her was that the press conference went smoothly. Down below, the number of onlookers had reduced a lot, but there were not a few left. It seemed that these

You should be a computer enthusiast.

In Catherine's view, she could completely turn this place into a sales center for electronic products. When she discovered that her products were more popular than she imagined, Catherine was even more determined.

After the first day of the meeting, Catherine began to formulate plans for the new building.

The building was going to be built with seven floors, and Catherine referred to some practices of later generations.

For example, Catherine used the third floor below as a sales center.

The first floor will become a game marketing center. According to Catherine's plan, this place will be rented out to game manufacturers. By the way, there will also be sales of handheld consoles, arcade machines, and home game consoles.

The second floor is a computer sales area, where various computer-compatible products will be sold.

Catherine's open policy is actually a licensing method. Every time the other party sells a product, Ark can extract a certain amount of patent fees and so on.

However, the amount is not high, and for the third party, the profit is still very objective.

The strategy adopted by Catherine is high quality and high service, so the price of her additional accessories is relatively high, and some low-end users will choose products produced by other manufacturers.

For example, cheap keyboards and mice, as well as memory and chips.

Moreover, Catherine only produces pure computers.

But these third parties will use Catherine's computer as a medium to develop other things, such as graphic design.

At present, computers are more widely used in professional fields, so various hardware interfaces for professional fields are emerging in endlessly, and Catherine's universal plug-in card interface is very convenient for accessing these hardware.

As for the third level, it will exist as an after-sales department, where various manufacturers can perform product maintenance and warranty.

In addition to these three floors, the fourth floor will exist as a warehouse, and the fifth floor will become the company's meeting place, where various future activities can be held.

Catherine has not thought about the purpose of the sixth and seventh floors yet, because she has to attend an internal meeting with a third party in personal computer development.

To be honest, Catherine had never thought that today's computers would develop in such strange ways.

Although today's computers are nothing compared to those of the future, under the leadership of Catherine, many people who want to start a business have joined the ranks of developing new accessories for Microsoft II computers.

In this aspect, compared to "history", our industry is completely different from history.

For example, the cassette slot that is now required in Catherine's computer has never appeared in "history".

Software developers load their products into read-only ROMs, then plug the cassette into the computer to read the software...

In the 21st century where Catherine lives, the universal slots on computer motherboards are often used to install sound cards, network cards and other equipment, and to install equipment, it is often necessary to dismantle the main chassis.

Almost all of Catherine's products are plug-and-play, with the interfaces placed on the outside of the chassis, and they are not limited to network cards and sound cards. Not only do they support expanded hardware, the software also basically requires the use of

"cassette" to install.

A big reason for this is that the storage capacity of current computers cannot keep up with the development of computers. Otherwise, Catherine's Phoenix system would not have been installed on a read-only ROM.

Because of the limitation of storage capacity, Catherine and those third parties had to develop green software and plug-and-play software one by one to meet the needs of computers.

Although from Catherine's point of view, this is really strange, for today's computer programmers, this is very natural - because they don't know the future like Catherine, but think that this is the trend of computer development in itself.

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Catherine estimates that this situation will continue for at least 10 to 20 years before it is likely to be solved. Catherine can only develop something that has not appeared before, but for a specific scientific and technological research, there is no way to solve it.

There's no way to speed them up much. Moore's Law...oh, now it's Edson's Law. The predictions of this law are quite accurate.

Research on hard drives has begun in the 1950s, but until the 1980s, the storage capacity was still pitifully small and expensive. Catherine's optical discs and optical drives had been developed. With large-capacity optical discs, developers did not

I would think of using the original computer media as the media.

This meeting is mainly to discuss with third parties about the use of new equipment, such as optical drives and the like.

Catherine will not launch a device alone like Japanese manufacturers do, and then let third parties adapt to it.

Although the personal computer seems to be very prosperous, in Catherine's eyes, it is still an infant that needs care to grow up.

And as the saying goes, everyone adds fuel to the fire, and the situation in the United States is different from that in Japan. Catherine's company status is also very delicate, so she believes that such a "ventilating" meeting is necessary.

"Gentlemen and ladies, it's nice to see you all again. I think you all already know our purpose here."

There were more than a hundred people at the meeting, all of whom were representatives of large manufacturers or joint representatives of small manufacturers.

In order to prevent too many people, Catherine adopted a method of letting small factories jointly elect representatives to let them participate.

Because this meeting was about the next generation of computers, Catherine got right to the point.

"I think everyone knows that our Pentium computer will use a 16-bit CPU as the core, and will also adopt a new storage method... Optical discs will become the main media of the next generation of computers. Our current technology can convert optical discs into

The capacity reaches 210mb. However, due to the error when the laser head is read and the error that may be caused when engraving, we will use three laser head code scanning technology."

Catherine said.

"We divide the optical drive into three equal sectors, and then have three laser heads distributed in an equilateral triangle on the optical drive. They will read the same piece of content, and then use a comparison method to read the data. In this way, we can get

Complete optical drive information. The only problem with this is that the actual capacity of the optical drive will drop to a maximum of 70mb."

Although it was only 70mb, everyone else felt happy and excited when they heard the news.

After all, at this time, when programmers were making programs, they were counting every byte carefully in order to reduce the space required by their programs and achieve the most simplified program. And now the largest program, the size

It will not exceed 512kb - this is also the limit that current ROMs can achieve, and it is extremely expensive.

70MB, for these programmers, has undoubtedly brought them from a slum of 10 square meters to a big house of 1,000 square meters. How could they not be happy?

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