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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (60078)	2/6/2005 11:48:37 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>What kind of hardware is in use?<< CPU market in China still is dominated by Intel and AMD, but many low end products already start to use China’s own Dragon chip now. Other non-major computer hardware is mostly made by Chinese companies, like HuaWei… One Chinese company already market their IPV6 wireless router, and some report said this is the 1st one in the world. 83% of the IC market in China still depends on imports. >>What kind of main frame hardware do they use?<< Not sure, I would assume most of them are IBM and Sun… Main frame is becoming not as popular in the West, and since China started late, so main frame has never been, and never will be popular in China. >>What kind of servers?<< Linux and MS, as well as Unix >>How about supercomputers?<< Whatever China uses is all made in China since the West forbids them to be exported in China, which is one of the best things can happen to China. They force China to do their own research. Last year, one of top 10 supercomputers in the world is China’s YinHe. That said, Chinese are smart and diligent enough not to depend on supercomputer for everything in case needed. Majority of complicated math calculation for A-bomb and hydrogen bomb successfully tested in 1964 and 1967 in China were based on hand and paper calculation, which is beyond a lot of Westerners’ imagination<g>. Conclusion, hardware is NOT everything. >>Are there any purely Chinese architected hardware - CPU wise?<< You can google more on Dragon chips in case you are interested. Here are a couple. And now China is working on Dragon 5 or 6. China's "soaring dragon" Linux chip "fully MIPS compatible" theinquirer.net China takes on CPU design Intel, AMD watch out theinquirer.net Cheap CPUs may revolutionize China By Kaiser Kuo atimes.com >>What computer languages do they use for business software?<< Whatever the companies in the West are using. >>How about fortran, basic, C, HTML, XTML, ????<< fortran, basic, possibly C are on the way out. HTML, XTML, are sure used in Web application. >>Are these languages translated into Chinese? Are there any computer languages that are only in Chinese?<< No. Although some researchers are now working on some Chinese programming language, and they even wrote some software successfully. But without Chinese gov. support, they are getting nowhere. Now almost everything in China is encouraged to be consistent with the so-called international standard (or it should be called Western standard<g>). As China catches up in technology, and thus has more self-confidence in high-tech fields, I expect this to change. That means more standard set by Chinese. This may take a couple of decades, but it will happen. Their huge market warrants that as much as Western companies are whining or will whine about it. >>What about Linux or open source software?<< Linux is much much more popular in China than here in the US. I saw majority of servers used by Internet forums in China (there are thousands) are based on Linux. And plenty of Linux Chinese software is available at a very low cost, or free of charge. Now MS already said they will refuse to let people download their security patch if they cannot verify the license for their OS. I expect more Chinese will switch to Linux<g> Microsoft has seen the trend, so now it tries really hard to slow down the development of Linux or other open source software. They, under the name of security, have signed contract with various government (36 countries already signed up, and another 3 on the way), to provide them for security patch first before they publicize the patch to the general public (Is this legal? I expect to see some law suit from the individuals for the delay<g>).