The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 120 Hero
Liu Hua visits this laboratory every week, and every time he comes he is surprised at how fast these researchers are progressing.

People have been complaining about 966 because it is really inhumane, the working hours are so long, and it directly leads to low work efficiency.

There are many people in this laboratory. When they feel tired, they sleep in the rest area next to the laboratory. When they are hungry, they go to the cafeteria and take two steamed buns to fill their stomachs.

In this way, the extremely long working hours still did not reduce their work efficiency, and the motherboard was taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the first week, it was just a simple board. In the second week, many components could be seen soldered on it. In the third week, Liu Hua had already seen that they were connecting processors and other parts for experiments.

So every time Liu Hua came, he would throw out some useful ideas. Although they were not completely effective, they were definitely of great help to the work in the laboratory.

Liu Hua proposed the keyboard, the hard drive, and even the concept of the mouse. Of course, he would not forget that the screen is of paramount importance.

Time was short and the task was urgent, so Professor Li could only seek help from within Huaqing University. The military order signed by Professor Li at that time was equivalent to Huaqing University signing a military order, so the leaders approved all of Professor Li's requests.

At the end of December, they finally made a strange thing, about the size of an office desk, with a screen made from an old TV and a simple keyboard with numbers and letters.

You have to know that computers at that time were generally large, usually the size of a room. IBM had a computer that weighed only 107 kilograms, which was considered relatively small at the time. The computer equipped in my country at that time took up square meters of space.

Similarly, at that time, the computing speed of the 104 computer was 1 times per second, and the computing speed of the 107 computer was 107 times per second. Later, in , it was modified and the computing speed of the computer reached times per second.

After this simple computer was produced, it caused a sensation at Huaqing University. Of course, this sensation refers to the sensation among the teachers, because ordinary students didn't know about this project at all.

Although this day was not Monday, Liu Hua took a special leave. In fact, the computer had been completed a week ago, but there were still many details to be improved.

So they agreed to test the computer performance on this day. Liu Hua and Professor Li stood excitedly in front of the computer, surrounded by a group of teachers from Huaqing University.

Standing behind Liu Hua and the others was the leader of Huaqing University, who also clenched his fists. After a long moment of excitement, he finally said, "Let's start the test."

A technician in a white coat was quite nervous at the moment and took several deep breaths. The leader and Professor Li patted his left and right shoulders respectively to show him to relax.

After about a minute of mental preparation, he tapped on the computer keyboard and entered the problem that needed calculation.

The computer screen flickered. The quality of today's TV screens is not very good, but just this slight flicker scared half of the people in the lab so much that they dared not breathe.

Especially the people in the Microelectronics Research Institute, they were extremely nervous, because the operating system of this computer was written by them on the spur of the moment, and it was quite crude in order to meet the task schedule.

Now they are afraid that the operating system they wrote will slow down the computer's operation, and then they will become the target of public criticism.

But after a while, a line of characters appeared on the TV screen. Liu Hua had not yet figured out the working mechanism of this operating system, so he could not understand what this line of characters meant. Liu Hua suddenly felt that Professor Li standing next to him was breathing a little faster, and the researchers from the Microelectronics Research Institute opposite him were trembling.

The leader of Huaqing University asked urgently: "How is it? What is the result?"

"Ninety-eight thousand times." Professor Li said excitedly, "Our computer succeeded. The computing speed reached ninety-eight thousand times per second."

At that moment, the laboratory suddenly became quiet, and even the sounds of breathing and heartbeats could be heard. I don't know how long it took, maybe a minute, or maybe just a dozen seconds, everyone in the room began to cheer.

"It worked, we made it."

The cheers were so loud that they could probably shake the roof off. After cheering for a while, Professor Li shouted, "Stop shouting, stop shouting, check the computer."

Suddenly, the area around the computer was cleared, and a dozen people in white coats began to check the integrated circuits, and people from the Microelectronics Research Institute also began to check the data processing process.

Waiting is an arduous process, and the hard part lies in its length. At this moment, even if it is only a one-minute wait, everyone feels it is long.

Professor Li kept looking at his watch. One minute passed, three minutes passed, five minutes passed, and ten minutes passed.

After fifteen minutes, the technician in charge of hardware testing stood up and said, "All integrated circuits are intact, but the processor is overheating. If we want it to run for a long time, I think we need a better way to dissipate heat."

A professor from the Department of Mechanical Engineering squatted down to observe and found that their so-called heat dissipation method was just to make a circle of heat dissipation holes around.

The professor smiled and said, "I can design a small fan for you that runs at low pressure, changes from passive to active, and guarantees improved heat dissipation efficiency."

The technician from the Microelectronics Research Institute who was in charge of the system also spoke up: "I'm sorry, Professor Li, it's our Microelectronics Research Institute that is holding you back. Our system is not simple enough, otherwise the processing speed could at least reach 105,000 or more."

Professor Li shook his head: "It's already very good. It's amazing that they can come up with an operating system in such a short time."

"Give us another month and we promise we can do better."

Liu Hua smiled and said, "Isn't this just right? The computer hardware still needs to be improved, so you can take this opportunity to optimize the system."

It was time for the leaders to come out. The university leader stood in the middle and clapped his hands, saying, "Comrades, comrades, this time, our new computer was successfully tested. This is worth celebrating. I also want to commend the technicians who participated in the research. You are the ones who have contributed to the construction of our country. You are the heroes of the semiconductor industry."

Just when everyone was celebrating, Professor Li walked out of the laboratory and Liu Hua followed him out. He saw Professor Li standing outside the door. He looked up, but reached into his pocket, took out a handkerchief, and gently wiped the corners of his eyes.

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