A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Just as Xiao Dai Mao was about to get back to the factory and get moving, he was stopped by Senior Brother Yun Gui halfway there.

"Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang. It really works!"

"Oh, you got the converter working so quickly? Doesn't chemical etching take quite a while?"

Jiang Xia looked at his senior brother Yun Gui with disbelief. He had been busy for half the night, and how long had it been since his senior brother and the others took the PCB design?

"Hey! What are you saying? You've paved the way, and we still can't follow it? That would be incredibly incompetent!"

"As long as it works, that's fine. You can just make more as needed, right? I'm not looking anymore, I still have to deal with the matter I promised Dr. Lan Ying!"

With that, the little guy turned and left.

After all, in Jiang Xia's view, a computer is just an auxiliary tool, nothing to brag about. Moreover, current transistor computers are still a specialized structure, meaning they are only particularly strong in scientific computing.

There is still a long way to go before we can achieve the performance of the general-purpose platforms of later generations.

At the very least, we need to develop integrated circuits. To develop integrated circuits, we must quickly help Dr. Lan Ying complete the necessary equipment for the drawing process...

That's how industry works; it's all interconnected, and missing any one link can cause problems.

However, once it develops, it can drive a large number of things. For example, Dr. Lan Ying needs some basic components of the equipment, and there are relevant connections in Project 301.

Just like the hydraulic components needed for lifting and lowering, and the capillary channels needed for the cooling system.

If the 301 cold rolling project hadn't been successful, the little brat wouldn't have dared to tell Dr. Lan Ying that it could be done in two days.

Before leaving, Jiang Xia still discussed the read/write issues of the driver program with his senior brother from Yunnan and Guizhou.

Because this is the initial version, it can only be read and written from beginning to end. After all, the dog at home is a complete machine, while the Academy of Sciences, in order to save money, did not use a transistorized DRAM module.

This is because there is little data, which is why these rhubarb clones reacted so quickly.

"Senior brother, please add relevant location and verification functions to the read/write program. Otherwise, having to reread and write the tape every time you turn on the computer is a hassle..."

"Furthermore, this program can be written into low-level code, and can be based on..."

The eldest brother said seriously, "Alright! Leave it to us!"

"By the way, we're also working on improving the portable overall architecture platform you proposed, based on the master version you provided. However, some colleagues have raised the question of why we're not writing the relevant programs in a Chinese-language environment..." After saying this, Senior Brother Yungui unconsciously glanced at Jiang Xia, trying to catch some emotion on his face.

Jiang Xia frowned and clicked his tongue: "Tsk, tell the person who asked this question to go and upgrade their RAM to 1GB before you talk..."

Indeed, the English alphabet only has 26 letters, and even including uppercase and lowercase letters, there are only 52 characters. Adding commonly used numbers and punctuation marks, the character set is pitifully small, making it fast and easy for computers to process.

In contrast, the Kangxi Dictionary contains more than 4.7 Chinese characters, with about 3500 commonly used. Such a huge character set makes inputting, parsing, and compiling in programming extremely difficult, and efficiency will definitely be greatly reduced.

Moreover, computers still use the ASCII encoding bestowed by the machine god, where one byte can represent one character; if we switch to the UTF-8 encoding that will be commonly used in the future, one Chinese character will require 3 bytes to represent.

With the current computing power, if Chinese characters were used, the computer wouldn't even need to perform calculations. Just the recognition program alone would probably keep the yellow cursor flashing for a whole day.

"However..." Jiang Xia thought for a moment, his eyes gleaming with excitement. He thought to himself: Integrated circuits are already emerging, so it's worth a try. Once we have more operational flexibility, we can then consider the system's operating environment. We're already ahead in computer languages, so why can't we develop a programming language with rules based solely on Chinese characters?

Right!

"This has potential," the young man thought, stroking his chin with interest as he imagined himself becoming a bald programmer.

If an operating system were to be written entirely in Chinese characters, given the complexity of the Chinese characters, it would probably take foreigners eight to ten years to learn it.

Bald foreigners, it's actually quite amusing to think about.

Let the whole world speak Chinese!

If you want to use our computers, you have to overcome the language barrier first. That's great! We absolutely have to do it!

Why should we have to follow the same old path as in our past life when we come back? We have to come up with something new.

"Senior! Which researcher raised this question?"

The brat's attitude made Senior Brother Yungui feel uneasy.

"Junior brother, don't be angry. Be bold in presenting evidence, but be careful in exploring..."

As he spoke, Senior Brother Yungui glanced cautiously at Jiang Xia, but the little brat's serious expression made him lower his head and stammer:

"Oh, she's a lady, surnamed Xia, and she also returned from abroad. Strictly speaking, she's our teacher!"

Oh, Teacher Xia?

Did he even teach at Wudaokou Vocational College?

Could it be that person?

If it really is her, then this purely Chinese character system might actually be possible to create.

"Is this Teacher Pei Shu? The one who makes the electrolyte solution calculation table?"

"Yes! That's right! Junior brother, do you know Teacher Xia?"

"I know that! That calculator is still in the showroom. That thing can even find the roots of higher-order algebraic equations. It's incredibly powerful!"

"We absolutely must develop this operating system for the Chinese-speaking environment!"

"Okay! When the time comes, can you sign the project proposal?"

"No problem! I'll be going now. This is something for later. Right now, the priority is to help Dr. Lan Ying get the processing equipment ready! Without integrated circuits, everything will remain just on paper."

"It's alright, it's alright, just sign the papers first, we can get a set of rhubarb for preliminary research, okay?"

"Okay!"

The little brat signed the papers readily and left.

The senior disciple from Yunnan and Guizhou, who jumped three feet high, was secretly overjoyed.

It's quite pitiful, really. The senior students from Yunnan and Guizhou have already created more than twenty "Big Yellow clones," but the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences didn't keep a single one.

They're either supporting the west or the east, it's so pitiful!

"Teacher, teacher, my junior brother signed it! We can use a transistor computer now! And he even agreed to sign the Chinese character project proposal!"

"He said that once Dr. Lan Ying's integrated circuit is finished, it will be possible to conduct related research!"

Senior Brother Yungui went back to the factory area and found Teacher Peishu in a dilapidated office.

"That's great!"

Teacher Peishu pushed aside the draft paper in front of him.

If you look closely, the draft paper is covered with a bunch of writing.

"Quickly write the project proposal! Submit it along with the production equipment improvement plan from Lan Ying's team!"

"Huh? This isn't a project, is it?"

"Why not? A senior colleague taught me this; it's considered a research sub-item!"

"A strange sense of familiarity... Is that the old engineer who came to work on the centrifuges a while ago?"

Teacher Peishu smiled so hard his nose wrinkled: "Yes, we should learn from the experience of our seniors."