Chapter 107 Engineering Quality Supervision and Management Office

  "Red Alert" was released simultaneously in Europe and America.

  Catherine's $70 million was the worst-case scenario, but the market reaction is clearly better than expected.

  Because of the emergence of television, nowadays many people prefer to stay at home and watch TV, while fewer and fewer people go out to watch movies.

  But Catherine's "Red Alert" is hard to express that kind of magical effect with just TV.

  Currently selling series, there are few films with such extreme special effects as Catherine's, so people feel different about the film effect and some other things.

  Catherine's "Red Alert" told people what real special effects are. This dazzling effect is absolutely a pleasure.

  Even for that kind of weird effect, many people are still willing to pay for Catherine's "Red Alert".

  It's already February and Red Alert is still going strong at the box office, with a total gross of $70 million and counting.

  Films screened in the US mainland. The box office split is more inclined towards the production side. In the first week of release, more than 80% of the box office revenue goes to the production side. Then the share ratio decreases every week. Finally, the producer takes 30%, and the rest goes to the distributor and theater chain.

  Although there is less money in hand now than before, the film can still be screened for a while.

  Especially "Red Alert" also has a Cold War background gimmick, which adds a mysterious color to this movie.

  Although the total revenue is very high, Catherine's costs are also extremely high. Even if she can finally get a share of $100 million, Catherine may only be able to earn tens of millions. Although it's doubled, compared to the electronics industry, movies make too little.

  Catherine always felt that without a stable income guarantee, it was difficult for film to become her main industry.

  Her main goal is still in the electronics industry.

  Especially after getting attention from the Pentagon, it is even more so.

  During this period of time, Catherine has been busy operating the system.

  The kernel of the Phoenix operating system was written entirely by Catherine herself, although it is similar to future DOS, but Catherine was very serious and careful.

  In the future, Microsoft's operating system will have various vulnerability patches developed by it. Although this is its strategy, it can quietly release patches without being noticed, increasing user stickiness for genuine users.

  That was the winner-takes-all after Microsoft's near-monopoly.

  But now Catherine needs a perfect product to make a name for herself, that's the way.

  If your own product is not rigorous, then later generations will develop an operating system with a strong desire. The Yangtze River's rear waves push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach, and you will be tragic.

  Strictly, it must be strict, this is the way.

  For a whole month, Catherine led the research team to write Phoenix's core and debug it, striving to find all the loopholes in the system.

  Although Catherine was once a programmer and knew a lot about computers, she had never actually tried programming systems. Although this is also an academic discipline, it's really difficult in practice.

  But compared to the programmers in this world who have no concept of operating systems, Catherine's skills are already astonishing.

  But just a month later, Catherine had to temporarily extricate herself from such a complicated job.

  At this time, the Pentagon established an Engineering Quality Control Management Office specifically responsible for liaison with ARK.

  That's right, the name of this office is "Engineering Quality Supervision and Management Office".

  In fact, the Pentagon did give this office such a name. In fact, the main thing is to cover people's ears and eyes, rather than to innovate.

  To be honest, Catherine actually wanted to name it "Mercury Alloy" which sounds cool, but the Pentagon obviously didn't have such a brain fart.

  The Pentagon's first allocation was a total of $80 million given to the company.

  Of this, $20 million was spent on developing a military version of the Z80. The specifics are still unclear, but according to Sanders it may have been related to missile guidance systems. After all, although there were now TV-guided and other types of guided systems, the US military's hit rate for missiles was only a few tenths of a percent. Compared with the 8% in the Gulf War and even more precise strikes in the future, this hit rate is really too low.

  The additional $60 million is for the first phase of development of the dismounted soldier terminal, more accurately, the vehicle-mounted version.

  After all, directly developing a single soldier system is still beyond current technology, but if we develop vehicle-mounted systems instead, it's entirely feasible.

  For vehicle-mounted, the conditions for both volume and power supply are much more relaxed. For targets that need to be marked, they are generally larger in size, and the accuracy requirements are not very strict, as long as the approximate position can be determined.

  However, it seems that the Pentagon still hopes to use a single-soldier version.

  For example, in alley battles or building battles, satellites have no way to monitor, and radar is also likely to be limited. However, single soldier probing and scanning the terrain can be very useful.

  It's now the Cold War era, but inside the Pentagon there are still a group of generals who have come from World War II and possess strong war consciousness.

  In fact, the vast majority of those who are driving the entire plan forward are also them.

  Phoenix's operating system kernel has been written more than half way through.

  At this time, however, Catherine split the entire software department in two once again.

  One is responsible for developing a civilian version of the operating system, while the other starts developing military equipment...

  Of course, things like instant scanning of maps can't be done for the time being. Moreover, other devices are needed in this regard. In this regard, the Pentagon has handed it over to another company - Lockheed Martin. The core of the other party is Loma Company, which will become a military giant in the United States in the future, and is also known as "Skunk Works". However, Catherine is not clear whether Skunk Works has appeared yet.

  Traditional industries Catherine is still less intervention as possible, she is still focusing on optimizing her own industry.

  Thanks to the Pentagon's appropriation, Catherine became rich instantly.

  Although these funds can only be used for special development, this is exactly what Catherine urgently needs.

  The Z80 and operating system were developed in tandem.

  A civilian version of the Z80 was soon developed and a military version, which Catherine referred to as the Z81.

  Z81 will be more stable and durable than Z80. In military applications, the cutting edge may not be needed, but stability and durability are essential. For example, the CPU later used in satellites requires high temperature resistance and low temperature resistance, but the frequency requirements are not high.

  In 1965, for Catherine, it was destined to be a career takeoff point.

  ……

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