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Volume 2: Managing Beiyang Chapter 715: Computer Age

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    In the early days of the Sino-German Cold War, Delian was in a passive position in its struggle with the Chinese Empire for world hegemony due to insufficient funds and hardware technology.

    It was not until China and Germany started competing for space hegemony that the top leaders of the German Alliance realized that this huge gap would not be able to catch up in a short time.

    However, the competitive Hitler was not willing to follow the Chinese Empire all the time.  Under his call, all members of the German League continued to carry forward the style of hard struggle and tightened their belts to fight for hegemony with the Chinese Empire.

    Although Delian scientists have made a series of achievements in space theory, when it was actually applied to space flight, Delian's hardware facilities were overwhelmed.  On the contrary, the Chinese Empire, which had extremely developed hardware facilities, was the first to put these advanced space theories into practical application.

    The reason for this result, Delian scientists attributed it to the lack of large-scale computer systems.

    It turns out that when space theory is applied to actual rockets, satellites, detectors and other orbital calculations in space that exceed human computing capabilities, it is already difficult to do it simply by relying on paper and pencil.  In this regard, the Chinese Empire had the world's first electronic computer system during World War II.  By the 1950s after the war, the computer system of the Chinese Empire had entered its second generation.  However, due to factors such as Delian's severe lack of funds and the leadership's lack of attention to the development of computers, Delian was still in its infancy in the computer field, and could not even manufacture the first generation computers of the Chinese Empire.

    Faced with this situation, Hitler finally became anxious and allocated special funds to support Delian's research and development of computer equipment to support Delian's space development.

    With the strong support of Hitler.  Delian finally collected computer-related information from the Chinese Empire through various channels, and in 1957 successfully developed the "Arrow" computer, the first large-scale computer used for space computing.  The computer has 7,200 electron tubes and 60,000 crystal diodes.  With 2,000 operations per second, the success of the "Arrow" machine excited everyone in Delian.  The designer even received a personal interview and award from Hitler.

    "However, compared with the supercomputers of the Chinese Empire, Delian's Arrow Computer lags far behind.  The first Arrow computer wasn't even as good as the Galaxy A computer built by the Chinese Empire fifteen years earlier.

    As the first generation computer, its hardware logic components used vacuum electron tubes, and the main memory used mercury delay lines, cathode ray oscilloscope tube electrostatic memories, magnetic drums, and magnetic cores.  External storage uses magnetic tape.  These devices are bulky and heavy, consume extremely high power, and have very poor reliability.  The computing speed is actually not high, but it is expensive.

    The total weight of the arrow-shaped computer manufactured by Delian is as high as 425 tons, and the cost is 8.2 million dragon coins.  It was a full two hundred tons heavier than the first computer in the Chinese Empire, and the price was four times higher.

    Of course, this has a lot to do with Delian¡¯s low level of hardware manufacturing.  The Chinese Empire entered the era of electronics industry long before World War II, and the electronics industry flourished after World War II.  However, Delian delayed its entry into the electronic age because of the war, and eventually fell behind the Chinese Empire for at least ten years.

    The Chinese Empire has entered the second generation level in the field of computers. The representative supercomputer Galaxy C-11 used by the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Empire has implemented a simple operating system and uses high-level languages ??and its compilers to control computers.  The number of calculations exceeded 3 million, but the cost was only two-thirds of the first-generation computer, and the size was seven times smaller.

    Although the second generation computers of the Chinese Empire were still focused on scientific computing and military affairs processing.  But with the support of Emperor Wang Chenhao of the Chinese Empire, Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry Group became the first to apply the Galaxy Type C computer to the field of industrial control.

    Science does not recognize second place unless you are more advanced.  According to this custom, the Delian people have been lagging behind since the day they started.  Until the end of the Cold War, it had never been able to catch up with the Chinese Empire in the field of electronic computers.

    ¡°However, the Delian people finally put down their face.  Some advanced electronic computers were secretly obtained from Britain through commercial channels.  Although these electronic computers were only small and could not meet the needs of spatial calculations, the Delian people quickly disassembled the parts of these small computers.  Reassembled into a mainframe computer.  The amount of work during this period was very large and difficult, but it was much faster than the Delian people developing their own computers.

    But Delian¡¯s industrial manufacturing capabilities are not as good as those of the Chinese Empire.  Many key electronic components had to be secretly smuggled from the hands of businessmen from the Chinese Empire and its allies. This seriously hindered Dellen's own development in the computer field, making it ultimately unable to defeat the Chinese Empire.

    However, the role of computers is to calculate.  Although Delian lags behind the Chinese Empire in research and development, and even uses technology spit out by the Chinese Empire, for Delian, they only need to be able to use computers, as long as they can carry out large-scale space operationsOrbital calculations are enough to provide accurate orbital data for Delian's space rockets.

    With its own supercomputer system, the German military¡¯s progress in space has significantly accelerated.

    Not long after the Chinese Empire realized the detection of Mars and Venus, Delian launched the first lunar exploration satellite using the Hercules rocket, and actively launched manned space and moon landing programs.

    "The struggle for space hegemony consumes a lot of national power. Even the wealthy Chinese Empire can't bear hundreds of rocket launches every year, not to mention Delian, which has very difficult economic conditions.

    The German Federation was dragged into the battle for space hegemony by the Chinese Empire. As a result, the German Federation's financial expenditures increased every year but it was difficult to meet the huge military budget.  In order to solve the problem of military expenditure, Hitler sometimes had to kill the goose to lay eggs, which dealt a heavy blow to the European economy, which had just improved.

    ?? Space Hegemony Delian strives to catch up, but it is difficult to surpass the Chinese Empire in a short period of time.  Hitler then turned his attention once again to the traditional advantages of the German Alliance, namely its huge tank production capacity.

    Under the planned economic system, the main battle tanks equipped by the German Army were low-cost and large in quantity.  Although the German T50 tank was defeated by the M43 of the Chinese Empire in the Transcaucasian War, the T50's advantages in quantity and cheapness were highlighted on the battlefield.

    Unwilling to do so, Hitler temporarily gave up military operations in Eastern Europe and set his sights on the vast land of Africa.

    Since the Chinese Empire monopolized the world¡¯s major nuclear fuel production bases, in order to engage in a nuclear arms race with the German Federation, the Chinese Empire prohibited the nuclear fuel production bases under its control from supplying the German League and NATO countries.  The German Federation's own nuclear fuel production is limited and cannot support the needs of a large-scale nuclear arms race.

    However, in the third year after the war, the German Union discovered uranium mines deep in the desert of French Algeria, which allowed the German Union to rapidly expand its nuclear power.

    The Chinese Empire was very worried about this. In terms of strategic layout, the Chinese Empire sent secret troops to attack the French nuclear fuel base many times and destroy its uranium mining equipment.  Even in order to overthrow France's colonial rule over Algeria, the Chinese Empire supported the Algerian government opposition in launching coups and armed riots with the intention of expelling French influence in the region.

    The German League attached great importance to this, and Hitler decided to have another confrontation with the Chinese Empire in Africa.  Hitler ordered the German military industrial enterprises to export T50 and other main battle equipment to African countries on a large scale, supporting pro-German African countries to attack pro-China African countries, and also subverting the African colonial rule of the Chinese Empire and Warsaw Pact member states.

    ??Delian¡¯s T50 tanks have an unparalleled price advantage in Africa. For African militia forces, the M43 tanks of the Chinese Empire are advanced, but they are too expensive and cannot be used in Africa.  On the contrary, Delian's T50 tank is more suitable for the military equipment of poor African countries.

    Therefore, Delian opened the door to Africa by exporting T50 tanks to Africa.  The Chinese Empire also tried to control Africa and prevent the German League's influence in Africa. The two sides escalated their military operations in Africa year by year. Eventually, a war broke out between the forces supported by both sides, and Africa was in flames.  (To be continued)
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