Chapter 43

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Chen Mo carried the monitor and walked quickly, even faster than when he came. In less than ten minutes, he returned to the villa.

Chen Mo placed the monitor on the floor in the living room, then he wiped the sweat off his face and thought to himself: I shouldn't be so rash in the future. Fortunately, Sister Tian didn't blame me, or I would have had no face to see her.

After resting for a moment, Chen Mo got up and brought out the packed computer components. He wanted to assemble the computer as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't be able to attend class tomorrow.

When Chen Mo had everything ready, he realized a serious problem: this villa wasn't his own storage room or a computer store counter. If he damaged the floor while assembling the computer, how could he explain it to Sister Tian? Besides, he would definitely need to handle those computer components in the future, and doing so in the villa would be very inconvenient. If he didn't find a suitable place, how could he carry out his work in the future?

Thinking about this, Chen Mo started searching the villa. After a long time, he finally found a small door under the stairs on the first floor. He pushed the door open and walked in, discovering a staircase leading underground. Chen Mo thought: This must be a basement, a place for the wealthy to store valuable items. It would be the perfect place to handle those computer components.

Chen Mo happily walked into the basement, fumbled to turn on the light, and looked around. The basement was quite spacious, at least thirty square meters, and completely empty, clearly never used before.

Chen Mo thought: If I turn this place into a temporary underground workshop, Sister Tian probably won't have any objections. At worst, I'll clean it up when I leave. Yes, that's decided.

Next, Chen Mo spent over ten minutes cleaning the basement and more than an hour setting it up. By around three in the afternoon, he had the basic structure of the underground workshop ready.

Since there were no tables, Chen Mo had to sit on the floor to assemble the computer. The strange-looking computer gradually took shape in his hands, especially the main unit, with its complex wiring that would likely make even a senior engineer dizzy.

Chen Mo installed six processors in the main unit. After connecting all the wires, he connected the monitor to the main unit and turned on the power. He pressed the start button.

With a "buzz," the monitor gradually lit up. This was Chen Mo's first time testing the operation of a multi-core computer. He wasn't sure if it would work properly. During the boot-up time, Chen Mo was so nervous and excited that his hands were sweating.

The main unit continued to "buzz," and the monitor slowly lit up, but it didn't display the normal boot-up screen; instead, it showed lines of gibberish.

Chen Mo had already prepared himself mentally, so when he saw the gibberish, he wasn't too discouraged. Instead, he began to think about the cause.

After about ten minutes, Chen Mo's furrowed brows relaxed. The reason the multi-core computer displayed gibberish was that the computer program couldn't recognize the main unit composed of six chips and the motherboard. This required changes to the program. As for the hardware connections, Chen Mo didn't think there was a problem.

In the past, it would have been almost impossible for Chen Mo to solve software issues, but after learning computer software programming from Tian Tian, he felt confident he could handle it.

Chen Mo first turned off the computer, then removed five of the chips and the motherboard, leaving only one chip and the motherboard. After rebooting, the computer finally displayed everything normally.

Chen Mo opened the programming interface and began to write a program suitable for a multi-core computer, thinking as he wrote.

If a computer has multiple cores, the most important issues to solve are the distribution of computational processes and the aggregation of computational results. Only by solving these two problems can the multi-core concept be truly realized.

Chen Mo spent about half an hour writing the system's hardware recognition software. After embedding the multi-core recognition program into the system software, he immediately began writing the work distribution program for the multi-core computer.

Since this involved key technologies combining hardware and software, Chen Mo had to rewrite most of the system software. Under his modifications, the WIN98 system was almost unrecognizable. Even the developers of WIN98 would be confused if they saw the current program, given that Chen Mo used his own programming language.

The WIN98 system was already quite large, and Chen Mo's modifications involved most of the programs, so the workload was enormous.

Since Chen Mo started working, he hadn't stopped to rest. He had to finish this work before tomorrow morning, or Tian Tian wouldn't be able to start the lessons.

As time passed, Chen Mo's work continued. After an unknown amount of time, he finally completed the task. He laughed and said, "My own custom computer is finally finished! Now I just need to connect the other chips, and the multi-core computer will work properly!"

Chen Mo was very happy. He couldn't wait to turn off the computer, reconnect the other five chips and the motherboard, and then press the power button.

With the boot-up sound, Chen Mo finally saw the normal boot-up screen. After performing a program check and confirming everything was normal, Chen Mo laughed and said, "OK! The multi-core computer is finally born!"

After speaking, Chen Mo felt a wave of hunger. His stomach growled, and he patted it, saying, "I'm so hungry. I wonder what time it is. I'll go upstairs and eat something and take a shower."

Chen Mo got up and went upstairs. As soon as he came out of the basement, he saw Tian Tian sleeping on the sofa. He thought: How did Sister Tian get here so quickly? Wasn't the class supposed to start tomorrow morning?

Seeing Tian Tian sleeping deeply, Chen Mo didn't want to disturb her. He went to the kitchen and made a pot of noodles, quickly eating them. Then he went to the bathroom and took a shower.

When Chen Mo came out in clean clothes, Tian Tian was already awake. Chen Mo smiled and greeted her, "Sister Tian, how did you get here so quickly? Is there something you need from me?" (A great event where cool phones and more await you! Follow the Qidian Chinese website's official WeChat account (add a friend in WeChat - add an official account - enter qdread) and participate immediately! Everyone wins, so follow the qdread WeChat account right now!)