Chapter 1254: Companies that pose no threat
Speaking of X86, we have to mention another great technology company - Intel.
As early as 1978, Intel released a new 16-bit microprocessor "8086", which also created a new era: the x86 architecture was born.
To make a computer work, you must give it instructions, and such instructions will form a set and be solidified in the microprocessor.
This instruction set solidified in the 8086 microprocessor is called x86.
It defines the basic rules for using INTEL chips. With the development of computer technology, this instruction set family continues to grow, moving from desktops to notebooks, servers, supercomputers, and portable devices. During this period, it also frustrated or restricted the development of many competitors. , making many processor manufacturers and their architecture technologies historical names.
And it itself not only achieved Intel's ascendant status, but also became an industry standard. Its status in the PC industry is like Taishan Beidou. x86 can also be seen in countless powerful multi-core processors in later generations. .
The biggest assister here is IBM.
The CPU is the core of the computer, but the CPU alone does not constitute a computer system. Therefore, many peripheral facilities are needed to match it. The guy who connects all these facilities with the CPU is called a device. "Motherboard" is called "bus" on engineering drawings.
Intel builds the central processor and the brain, IBM builds the body, facial features, limbs, and internal organs, and ultimately transforms the brain into a "robot" that can receive information, process information, store information, and output information.
Now IBM has opened this method to Clover. Of course, it is not to let Clover learn to develop its own computers, but to make it easier for Clover to understand itself and provide better services for itself.
Of course, it is not impossible for Clover Company to insist on R&D, but it would have to bypass the extremely deep and thick intellectual property barriers contained in this method, which is almost impossible.
There is even a kind of arrogance that makes Clover Company "give up on difficulties", like Microsoft letting Clover Company develop VC, but it still locks up most of the intellectual property rights in exchange for Clover It is even more embarrassing for the company to get the qualification to use and develop the streaming media interface.
In the eyes of the two big companies, the life of the four-leaf clover can only be a coolie, which is equivalent to the large number of outsourcing business undertaking companies that are popular in the third brother's country in later generations, and are owned by large Western companies. Glory wage earner.
But Zhou Zhi is a person who has been there, so he naturally knows the future development trend.
There is an opportunity for "overtaking in corners" hidden here.
With the development of the Internet, open source Linux will receive support from software enthusiasts, organizations, and companies around the world.
In addition to maintaining a strong momentum of development in servers, it will also make great progress in personal computers and embedded systems.
Users can not only intuitively obtain the implementation mechanism of the operating system, but also modify and improve it according to their own needs, so that it can best adapt to the needs of users and make it more powerful at the same time.
In addition to being open source and free, Linux also has its own unique advantages.
Its system performance is extremely stable, and its core firewall components are highly efficient and simple to configure, which can ensure system security to the greatest extent.
Therefore, in many subsequent enterprise networks, in order to pursue speed and security, Linux was not only used by network operation and maintenance personnel as a server, but even as a network firewall.
And because of its open source code, no copyright, and large number of users in the technical community, users can complete development at extremely low cost, with free tailoring, high flexibility, and powerful functions. In particular, the network protocol stack embedded in the system only requires simple configuration to realize the function of the router. These characteristics make Linux an ideal development platform for developing routing and switching equipment.
When the information age leaps from the "stand-alone era" to the "network age", then further to the "mobile era", and then further to the "Internet of Things era", these advantages will will be completely inspired.
If Linux is changed and is still used as the kernel, only the GNU components are removed, and replaced with an operating system developed by Andy Rubin, which is still free and open source and mainly serves the operating system of mobile devices and digital cameras, then What is it?
That’s Android. Gaining abnormal vitality due to open source, many competitors such as Symbian, BlackBerry, PalmOS, WebOS and even Windows Phone have become history, making Apple's iOS the only Android that can still compete with it.
Then it evolved into the initial state of another intelligent system in the East. When that system grew up and Android became dispensable, it emerged from the little green caterpillar Android. , began to be beautiful alone.
This is Hongmeng.
So Zhou Zhi now uses seemingly unfair treatment to exchange the intellectual property rights of window controls from Microsoft, and preemptively deploys them to the transformation of window controls and the development of visual development tools for Linux systems. He can Did you suffer a loss?
Today, the last one of the five pillars that support the development of Linux - Unix operating system, MINIX operating system, GNU project, POSIX standard and Internet network.
It can be said that everything is ready, all that is needed is the east wind.
However, knowing this did not prevent Zhou Zhi from complaining in front of Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi, and also allowed Matsui Zuo to relax some of his thoughts on Clover Company.
In the final analysis, this is a company that is controlled by others and has no independent development ideas. It may have many advantages, but it never poses a strategic threat.
Since Microsoft can't get around it, VC can't take advantage, and VUC is useless and not worth exchanging several technologies at its disposal, so it's better to focus on Yotsuba Let’s take a look at the results that have been achieved so far.
So everyone changed the topic to the work that will be carried out in the near future, namely the second and third level fonts of the Hanwen large font library, and the construction of the UNICODE Chinese, Japanese and Korean ideographic area.
Actually, this is just two conceptual things. In careful planning, when the third-level font of Hanwen Large Font Library is completed, it is the time when the UNICODE Chinese, Japanese and Korean Ideographic Characters Region is completed.
The only adjustment is that the earliest three-level font design was all Chinese characters, but now it has been expanded to include Japanese and Korean ideograms and Japanese and Korean pinyin characters.
In order to dilute the percentage of text symbols, Zhi Zhi and genius introduced the concept of "Chinese ideograms", believing that text is actually just a type of symbol, and many symbols that are not included as text are In fact, it fully carries the meaning of this word.
For example, Tai Chi diagrams, Bagua symbols, and even symbols on mahjong tiles can all be included.
This is not only good for China, but also good for Japan and South Korea. For example, the flag of Goryeo has Tai Chi and the Four Trigrams?
Another example is the island country. The unique "rice seal" used in annotations is "※"; and the "〒" that represents postal services and is followed by the zip code should also be included?
This suggestion is very reasonable and very constructive. Therefore, Matsui Zuo and Kim Chunyi not only have no reason to refute, but also strongly support it.
Both of them agreed with Zhou Zhi’s view that the “China, Japan and Korea Ideograph Region” should be renamed “China, Japan and Korea Ideograph Region”, and the three countries jointly wrote a proposal to the UNICODE organization.
As for the result that the proportion of the symbols of the two countries in this region is increasingly "diluted"... Who makes Chinese characters have a long history and various symbols?
(End of this chapter)