Manhattan Reborn 1978

David rode Black Mike's car to the Flintstone Library.

The library is still the same.

David followed his own plan and searched for the books he wanted to find.

Half an hour later, he came to the third floor with a few books and sat down in Professor Nash's old seat.

He prepared his notebook and looked through the useful information in the book.

David just found a copy of "The Development and Application of Computer Science".

The book provides a detailed introduction to the existing computer hardware environment and software development.

It also summarizes the characteristics of C language.

It is the most universal computer programming language and has its own unique characteristics.

It is specifically reflected in three aspects, namely extensiveness, simplicity and complete structure.

When David was talking about databases with Professor Nash yesterday, the two of them talked about C language.

Computer C language was born in Bell Labs in New York.

A researcher named Dennis developed it based on the b language designed by researcher Ken Thompson.

After the main design of the C language was completed, Thompson and Dennis used it to completely rewrite Unix, and with the development of Unix, the C language has been continuously improved.

Speaking of Ken Thompson, the designer of language B, and Dennis, there is an interesting story between the two.

One day in the 60s, Researcher Thompson had nothing to do, his hands were itchy, and he wanted to play a video game he had made to simulate navigation in the solar system.

Behind his boss's back, he found an idle small computer - pdp-7.

But this computer doesn't have an operating system, and games must use some of the operating system's features.

So, he set out to develop an operating system for pdp-7.

In 1969, Thompson designed the b language (taken from the first letter of bcpl), which was very simple and close to the hardware, based on the bcpl language, and wrote the first version of the Unix operating system in the b language.

In 1971, researcher Dennis, who also loved games, joined Thompson's development project to cooperate in the development of Unix in order to be able to play the games Thompson mentioned earlier.

His main job is to transform the b language and make it more mature.

At the beginning of 72, the main body of the C language was completed.

Thompson and Dennis couldn't wait to start using it to completely rewrite Unix.

At this time, the fun of programming made them completely forget the original intention of doing this. . .

play games! ~

The two of them began to devote themselves to the development of Unix and C language.

With their efforts, Unix has developed rapidly, and the C language itself has been continuously improved.

During the development process, they also considered porting Unix to other types of computers.

The powerful portability of C language is initially revealed here.

You must know that neither machine language nor assembly language is consistent. Programs developed for x86 cannot run on other machines.

C language programs can be used on processors of any architecture.

in 1977.

Dennis published a C language compiled text "Portable C Language Compiler" that does not depend on a specific machine system.

As soon as this article came out, it immediately attracted the attention of many knowledgeable people!

Many people have begun to learn to use C language to write programs.

The large database David wants to build requires C language to write a management software program.

He didn't know if Professor Nash was qualified for this job.

However, time will verify this, right?

David put the book aside and picked up another book.

"Fundamentals of Modern Materials Science".

There are many options for the projects that David plans to put into the angel fund.

Among them, latex products are more widely developed and applied, such as facial masks, white LED lights, home pillows, children's educational toys, microwave food, etc.

There are also software companies and game production companies. These are very good projects.

So which one of them is more suitable to take out requires David to search for the information and consider it carefully.

Time passed, and the whole morning passed like this.

Noon.

Martin brought a middle-aged man wearing a crisp suit to the third floor of the library.

He saw David, who was eating steamed buns for lunch, and he pulled the middle-aged man over with a smile.

"You are really here, I just called your home to look for you!"

David bit the chicken leg in his hand and looked up at Martin and the middle-aged man: "Are you looking for me? There must be some trouble again, right?"

Martin smiled stiffly.

amount.

Can we have a good chat? ?

He coughed, pulled up a chair and sat down, introducing the middle-aged man to David: "This is Vice President Ferry Cripps of Columbia University. He is here to talk to you. What we talked about yesterday Research center matters.”

Columbia University?Vice-Chancellor?

Is this a big shot?

David quickly put down the drumstick, wiped his hands, stood up, smiled and shook hands with Vice Principal Ferry Cripps.

"It's an honor to meet you! I'm David Coleman!"

Vice Principal Ferry smiled heartily and shook David's hand, saying a few polite words.

The two sat down and he explained his purpose to David.

It turns out that when David was on the phone with President Prince Duan yesterday, the president of Columbia University was listening right next to him!

By the time David and I put down the phone, the president of Columbia University had roughly understood what had happened.

This big company I’ve never heard of is going to cause trouble!

He secretly wrote this down, and after returning to his hotel, he called back to New York and asked someone to immediately check the company and the data science research center to be established.

As for what happened in the library and the small garden yesterday, if anyone wants to investigate, there is no secret at all.

Therefore, Vice President Cripps called Princeton University this morning and asked Martin by name to talk to Martin about the research center.

Wait until Martin answers his call. Will this kind of good thing allow you to take advantage?

no way!

Martin and Cripps, two handsome middle-aged guys, started practicing Tai Chi.

The two exchanged a lot of formulas, but in the end, the impatient Cripps couldn't hold it back and told Columbia University what conditions it could offer.

After Martin heard these conditions, he covered the microphone and felt as if he had just chewed a lemon!

Such a sour taste!

For example, Princeton University is a national tycoon.

Then Columbia University is a tycoon at the intercontinental level.

They have never been short of money!

It is also a private research university.

Columbia has many times more funding than Princeton.

Columbia University was founded only eight years later than Princeton University.

As the younger brother of Princeton University, Columbia University has developed to become the third-ranked Ivy League school in the entire United States.