Chapter 848 Engineering Trap
“It’s not a secret, but we haven’t taken the last step yet, we haven’t started publicity yet.”
“This speed is amazing, it should be considered a six-unit Galaxy, right?” The fourth cousin's knowledge of computers was limited to what he read in newspapers, and he was very curious: "Then how do you know?"
"Because the person in charge of the project is Professor Li Guojie, and the operating system used by Sugon is Domestic system developed on the basis of UNIX System SNIX. And 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 with Galaxy is the Wubi input method, and D2000 Chinese characters can only be used by the terminal. ZD-1110 character display terminal. After evolving to Dawn, a more advanced Chinese character processing system is naturally needed. Unicode based on the same operating system has naturally become Professor Li’s first choice.”
"That's right!" Xu Youzhi slapped his thigh: "What Director Wu just said is to solve the existing problems first, and then solve the problems that are not good. Even if this Unicode large font library cannot be developed on a small computer, it can be done on a giant computer. Get up! This is another way to solve it first, then solve it. Not good!”
Although this statement is not consistent with the actual situation, it is an easy-to-understand explanation. Zhou Zhi had to skip this section: “Because of this relationship, Shu University is stepping up its font development work. , there is only one month left for us.”
“And Professor Li is very stingy and does not allocate supercomputing resources to us at all.” Speaking of this thoughtfulness, Professor Li also said: “Fortunately, our Shu University now has a new laboratory with several more machines. A small computer can barely complete the task."
"But I said. The engineering trap that will have a huge impact on the future does not refer to this aspect," Zhou Zhi said, "but to the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge."
"Huh?" Zhao Shangzhong couldn't understand at all: "Why. Can it even be linked to the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge? ”
"Although the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is a huge engineering achievement after the founding of New China, the original design of the clear height was actually 26 meters."
"But the country was in a difficult period at that time, and the experts who reviewed the plan were hesitant. We raised a question, that is, whether it is possible to ensure the passage of 10,000-ton ships Under the conditions, the height was reduced to 24 meters to save some costs.”
“This plan was opposed by the shipping department at the time. They believed that although the clearance of 24 meters could ensure the passage of 10,000 tons most of the time, it There is no guarantee during special periods such as high tides. During flood periods, even only Being able to pass 3,000-ton ships will seriously affect shipping efficiency. "
"For cost reasons, the bridge was ultimately designed to be 24 meters long. The idea was to solve existing problems first, as my godfather just said. , which is also in line with what my fourth cousin just said. 26 meters is a bit too ambitious. At that time, Xinzhong There are not many ships with a capacity of over 10,000 tons.”
“However, after the bridge was built, the development of shipping on the Yangtze River was basically restricted. The subsequent Yangtze River bridges were all designed according to the clear height of the Nanjing Bridge. The theoretical possibility that a 10,000-ton ship could reach Yichang has completely disappeared.”
"The design of our Chinese character library is actually very similar to this problem," Zhou Zhi said: "The old protocol is patched and patched, and there is also an upper limit for Chinese character encoding. The ceiling is only 27,000 code points."
< br>"It's barely enough now, and there's even a lot of redundancy, but our Chinese characters clearly have Xiao Shi Wan, When computer technology can be used in many aspects in the future, we will inevitably face the problem of being unable to input many Chinese characters. "
"The simplest example is the electronic project of ancient books. I am afraid that more than half of the rare characters will only be changed. into a square frame.”
“We will have to change the protocol at that time. Therefore, all Chinese character processing systems developed based on this protocol need to be demolished and redeveloped. There will also be an additional problem of transcoding and compatibility of the two protocol characters, and a set of compatibility patches needs to be developed for all Chinese character processing programs. . Otherwise, the data previously stored in the system cannot be interpreted using the new protocol. The information work we have done will be in vain."
"This is equivalent to tearing down and rebuilding all the bridges on the Yangtze River to solve the problem of thousands of tons of ships arriving in Yichang." Zhou Zhi said meaningfully. Twenty-five years after the completion of the Nanjing Bridge, is this still possible? ”
"I'm going to tell you why the country pays so much attention to it!" Zhao Shangzhong was so drunk that he woke up with a fright: "I couldn't figure out why even the ministries and commissions were alarmed as soon as you brought this up, and dragged you to the capital to report overnight... This is why It will be a big pit to avoid in the future! "In fact, shipping is a complex subject, focusing on bulk cargo transportation. As far as the Yangtze River waterway is concerned, it is most suitable for transporting grain, coal, steel, oil, cement, sand and gravel, etc.; or large Machinery, automobiles and other industrial products.
Many of these industries have overcapacity, have no rigid demand for transportation, or have other transportation methods that do not necessarily rely on shipping.
In addition, there are safety issues caused by large ships entering rivers and waterways, and traffic bottlenecks caused by water conservancy projects. These problems cannot be solved by solving the height limit.
However, it is very appropriate to use it as an example to let everyone here understand the importance of a large font library.
Almost everyone here didn't understand how important this matter was until now and praised Zhou Zhi.
They couldn't praise Zhou Zhi for his understanding of information technology. No matter how strong he is, he can't compete with the real experts in this area.
The main reason is to praise him for his high view of the problem, which is a real contribution to the present and future generations.
The fourth cousin was a little puzzled: "Our country's information technology is still very weak after all. Why haven't so many experts thought of this problem? Why do they still need elbows to remind them?"
"It is a fact that technology is weak." Zhou Zhi admitted: "Projects like ours cannot allocate even a little of the country's supercomputing resources, which shows how scarce and tight resources are."
"But this problem can be solved by a small computer. The main problem is awareness." Zhou Zhi said a little indignantly: "Those who understand writing do not understand computers, and those who understand computers do not understand writing."
At this point, it turned out that I couldn't bear to say something dirty in front of my elders: "Who told all the people in information technology nowadays are science majors?! They can't even recognize all the 5,000 commonly used words in the existing lexicon. How can you expect them to think of these?!"
"You are being arrogant, aren't you?!" Mom took over and slapped Zhou Zhi on the back of the head: "If you dare to say dirty words in front of your elders, you are a monk or a science student!"
Yang He hurriedly Lift Shou: "I prove that elbow is right, but I can't read all the five thousand words..."
Zhou Zhi was punished, and then he quickly explained angrily: "It's not arrogance, sadness and indignation, pure sadness and indignation..."< br>
"Yes, it seems that Yang He is also majoring in computer engineering?" Zhao Shangzhong cast an earnest look at Yang He: "A liberal arts student can make a contribution in this area, you have to work harder..."
Yang He: "..."
(End of this chapter)