Chapter 1252 Jianghu
“Because the backstage owner of the nightclub is a friend of my parents.” Of course Zhou Zhi would not explain it too clearly to these two people: “Otherwise, how could my parents let me be there with confidence? Working? "
"Yo Xi, that's the truth. With Zhou Sang's charm, if no one restrains him, he will definitely be ripped apart by the ladies in the nightclub!" Matsui Zuo nodded repeatedly and looked at Zhou Zhi blindly. Hold.
“I heard that the best nightclub in Shu is called Roppongi?” Jin Chunyi had only arrived in Shu for a few days and had already inquired about the place: “Is it modeled after Roppongi in Ginza?”
"Roppongi? ?" Zhou Zhi thought for a moment: "It's very lively, but it's more suitable for men in their twenties to forties. For successful people like the two of you, Peace Dove Nightclub is more suitable."
"Understood, then when we return to the capital of Shu, we will follow your arrangements." Matsui Zao picked up the wine glass again: "Come, let's have another drink!"
Now nightclubs have begun to have Various "flexible" services, Zhou Zhi feels that Guan Tingting is no longer suitable for singing in nightclubs, and this aspect is also taken into consideration.
Yellow "foreign guests" like Matsui Zo and Kim Chunyi are said to be the kind of "favorites" that ladies like most. They are rich, polite, and well... the service time does not take too long.
Eating and sex are also important. After enjoying eating, drinking, and chatting with women, Matsui felt that our friendship was almost complete, so he said: "Zhou Sang, your company's operating system has many patents, right?"
"Mr. Matsui Why are you asking about this? "The taste of sake is very light, almost the same as clear mash water. Too many, asked: "There must be a lot of patents, but Mr. Matsui doesn't need to worry too much, because object-oriented programming tools are currently only owned by Microsoft and Apple. Mr. Matsui will not think that our school has donations from IBM and Microsoft." That computing center is purely charity for no reason, right?”
"The elbow means..." Matsui Zou pondered for a moment: "Is your system their outsourcing business?"
"This is a systematic patent tree." Zhou Zhi said: "We The VC tools are developed based on Microsoft's fourth generation C++. Therefore, even though we have developed various UNIX-based control objects, we still cannot avoid Microsoft's patents, so almost all patent packages are cross-linked with Microsoft. Shared patent ownership Rights."
"But UNIX is based on the GNU protocol, can you bypass the GPL sharing terms?"
"What we just discussed was ownership." Zhou Zhi and Matsui Zokin. Chunyi clinked his cups: "What the GPL terms share is the right to use. Do you understand this explanation?"
"Then this part authorizes us, can both island countries and peninsulas use it?" "Zou Matsui asked.
"We are working with Microsoft and the Free Software Foundation to discuss the openness and opening timetable of object controls."
"What about C++? Does Microsoft have a timetable for opening C++?"
“As far as I know, this also exists,” Zhou Zhi nodded: “But this software package is too big, and currently no PC can carry it. Such a large capacity."
"The compilation environment is also a problem. Various compilers, database engines, etc. also require a lot of space and computing power."
"So it still needs to be done. Use small computers, medium-sized computers, or even large computers," Zhou Zhi said: "But using these equipment involves another problem..."
"The problem of resource sharing." Matsui Zou is also an expert and immediately said: "Microsoft's operating system does not have enough support for multi-threading, so we still have to switch back to UNIX."
"Yes!" Jin Chunyi also nodded. : "At least Microsoft has not yet developed Is there a multi-threaded operating system? ”
The biggest difference between the WINDOWS system and the UNIX system is that WINDOWS is a personal operating system and is for one person. The supporting hardware includes a host, a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse, etc. . The UNIX system is used by many people. The host is usually a high-performance server such as a minicomputer or a mainframe, and the devices connected to it are networks, routers, and terminal devices.
So a UNIX system workstation is equivalent to a computer with super computing power connected to many monitors and keyboards, which can be used by many people at the same time.
For everyone, it seems like they are operating a computer, but in fact they are only using a part of the resources on the host. Because of UNIX's unique user management, file permission management, share management and other functions, the right to use resources is very clear. .
In an era when system resources are very precious, this method is undoubtedly the most efficient method, and based on such a special mechanism, it also has special advantages for engineering collaboration.
Because everyone's work is done on one machine, all programs are placed in one place, and the entire system does not need to be copied and passed around, making management much easier.
“So we need two development environments and compilation environments.” Zhou Zhi said: “One is the business that Microsoft outsources to us, which is the development of VC tools.”
“The other one is , it should be a visual control shell developed for UNIX, right? ”
"The visual control shell is a product." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "There is another visual tool for developing this shell, which is VUC."
"Have you developed to this point?" Matsui said very Surprised, has China’s software development capabilities reached this point?
People who work in program development in later generations have a very hard-working name called "code farmers". There are as many software development practitioners as crucian carp crossing the river.
But programmers are not called "coders" from the beginning. For example, in the year Zhou Zhi lived, "coders" were still the "proud sons of heaven."
But there is a pain that China has experienced for a long time, and that is that there are thousands of coders in the world. Basically none of the development tools they use, that is, the guys who make their own meals, are domestically produced.
Almost all development tools, various programming software, database software, music processing software, and graphics processing software are imported from abroad.
Until the era when Zhou Zhi traveled back, China was already very powerful, and it still had not gotten rid of this embarrassment in the category of developing software tools.
Because China started too late, numerous patent obstacles are unavoidable.
Even if the core of the UNIX system is open source, there is still a "dispute for the right to speak" in the various layers of protocols, interfaces, controls, application software, etc. that are superimposed on it.
For example, is it necessary for a system to have a basic word processing system? Because of the open source nature of UNIX, you can develop it, and so can I. Whoever develops software that is used by the most people will have the right to speak on UNIX's text processing accessories.
The rest is simple. Assuming that there are 5,000 shared patents involved in this system, then a large company that owns 3,000 of them will have a greater say in the system than a small company that only owns 30. many.
There is nothing new under the sun. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Of course Matsui Zao understood these truths. He was shocked that Zhou Zhi had already led his team into this world.
(End of this chapter)