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Since the Suez Canal crisis in July, Eisenhower has been thinking about the long-term strategy in the Middle East.To realize this strategy, the British world colonial system must first be smashed.The United States needs the United Kingdom to put itself in a right position, be honest and be a "second-class hooligan", not a world-class power that keeps pace with the United States.

Speaking of which, it was not easy for the United Kingdom. At the end of the 19th century, the domestic industrial output value was surpassed by Germany and the United States successively. It insisted on maintaining a world-leading navy and winning World War I. After the end of World War I, the United States built ships like dumplings. The naval strength of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom is basically 1:1, but the United Kingdom still relied on various means to allow itself to dominate the world during the interwar period, and the United States was so angry that it withdrew from the League of Nations.

Not only that, but the United Kingdom also insisted on fighting World War II. In several high-level meetings of the Allied Forces at the end of World War II, the United Kingdom actually operated itself into a situation where it jointly led the anti-fascist war with the United States. I have to say that the small group of elites in the United Kingdom are Sly enough.

But hard power is not enough. Relying on historical inertia and so-called soft power, it can maintain a temporary world hegemony, but it cannot continue indefinitely. In 1956, Britain ran out of steam.

After the end of the Suez War, the pattern of world powers quietly changed:

The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two superpowers on earth. Whether the world can be peaceful depends on whether the United States and the Soviet Union wrestle with each other in a cold war or a hot war;

Great Britain and France are second-rate powers.The United Kingdom is an ally of the United States and cooperates with the global strategy of the United States; France is a country in the Western camp that seems to be at odds with the United States. The remaining colonies and spheres of influence in Africa are the last treasure of this poor family.

China is a mysterious country shrouded in clouds and mist, even more mysterious than the Soviet Union—because of race relations, the United States and Western Europe can hardly send intelligence personnel to China.Recruiting and training spies from Chinese Americans, the loyalty is questionable, and the infiltration effect is not much better.

However, the United States and New China have dealt with each other on the battlefield after all, so they probably gave China a definition: China has built an "absolute control domain" among the countries bordering or adjacent to it, and foreign forces challenge China in the absolute domain. It is a very unwise move, no matter how powerful the foreign forces involved are, it will lead to violent beatings from China.

However, China seems to be too lazy to pay attention to affairs in places far away from China. At most, it is limited to solidarity, such as support for Egypt in the Suez War.

This is the "standard portrait" of the five hooligans of the UN Security Council at the end of 1956.

Except for these five permanent members, there is no need for other countries to draw standard portraits... Moreover, there are not so many independent countries in the world at this time.

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The Suez War was both a victory for the United States and a victory for the Soviet Union.

On the evening of November 11, the news that the "Experience" killed four ships in one move reached Moscow. The top leaders of the Soviet Army and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were jubilant. Both Khrushchev and Bulganin were drinking tons and tons.

When the Suez crisis happened, the Soviet Union stood up for Egypt, and Egypt won.Not only did Egypt win, but the Soviet Navy also showed off, saying that our Soviet Union not only has mouthpieces, but also can provide substantial support to the Arab brothers.

The frantic welcome received by Soviet warships visiting Syria and Egypt is the best expression of the Soviet Union's current status among Middle Eastern countries.

"Egypt agreed in principle to our request to build an air force base on their territory," Zhukov said quietly to Khrushchev, "but we will continue to discuss with the Egyptians how to manage it, the deadline for the military base, and the construction period."

"Very good." Khrushchev patted Zhukov on the shoulder, "What is the name of the warship that sank four ships at once this afternoon?"

"It's the destroyer 'Experience', of the Black Sea Fleet. The captain is Captain Sahajiyang."

Khrushchev: "When this warship returns to the Black Sea, I will go to Sevastopol in person to honor the captain and officers and soldiers. ... It's amazing, it's amazing, Zhukov, I found that destroyers are more powerful than cruisers and battleships. They all work, those are just floating iron coffins."

Zhukov: "Navy Commander Gorshkov said that our secret lies in missiles, and a destroyer equipped with missiles is stronger than any warship equipped with artillery."

"It's the same reason," Khrushchev said. "In the future, the Soviet Navy will only need two types of ships, destroyers equipped with missiles and small boats equipped with missiles. Comrade Zhukov, I have made up my mind! In the future, the Soviet Navy will not need any more ships." The 'Experience' is a bigger ship."

Zhukov: ...

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Beijing.

It was the end of 1956, and the computer to be launched in February next year was of course already designed and ready for mass production.

T55和T56属于同一代计算机，T57就要比T55/56有一点技术革新了。不过只要芯片技术到位，T系列通用计算机的具体工程设计现在基本可以交给上海所来完成。

T55 and T56 adopt 10-micron process chips, and T57 is upgraded to 6-micron. In a unit area, the number of integrated transistors has more than doubled.

As for the technology in the hands of the Electronic Information Industry Bureau, in fact, when the 6-micron process was broken through, the 5-micron process was also completed. This is the technical stage that the current first-generation non-contact lithography machine can easily achieve.

6微米工艺的芯片，初始家族是X5600系列，用于T57、T57M和T57L。

In addition to the X5600 series chips, the chip factory in Beijing is still producing some other chips.For example, the 5 dedicated chips used in the computer encryption machine, the control chip of the program-controlled switch, the chip of the optical fiber communication system, the chip of the PJX-2 field artillery computer (however, this still uses a 10-micron process), and so on.

At Beijing University of Electronics and Information Technology, Tang Hua and Huang Kun closed the door of their laboratory, tinkering with a new computer.

"Give me that...the motherboard." Tang Hua said.

In Tang Hua's hands, the "mainboard" shipped from Suzhou is slightly larger than a 16-magazine, with an aspect ratio of 4:3, and there are spider web-like copper wires printed on it, and some chips have been pre-installed. Welded up.

Tang Hua took out another XS3725 processor, aligned the 18-pin pins to the slot on the motherboard, carefully inserted it, and then tapped it a few times with a rubber hammer to make the processor firmly plugged into the motherboard and then buckle it on.

Then glue the copper heat sink, the fan is unnecessary. The processor of this machine works at 1.2MHz, and the heat is not too high. If it is not running at full load for a long time, the copper heat sink is not necessary.

"Professor Huang, do you think it would be more appropriate to remove the memory from the motherboard and make it a pluggable device?" Tang Hua said.

Now there are 8 identical small chips on the motherboard, which are 1K memory chips, and the memory capacity of the entire computer is 8K.

Huang Kun: "In this way, you can choose different sizes of memory, 4K, 8K, 16K, or even larger. However, this way the motherboard will be slightly more complicated, and the probability of failure is also high."

Tang Hua: "This type of computer will be like this first. In the future, the next generation or the next generation, the memory should also be a pluggable device."

After all the components on the main board were plugged in, Tang Hua took a photo of the main board to take a standard picture, and then he and Huang Kun put the main board into the case, and then plugged in the various wire leads.There is no hard disk, and this machine does not have a hard disk by default-the current hard disk still cannot fit in a case of this size.

Then connect the chassis to the monitor, press the switch after confirming that it is correct, and the monitor turns on with a beep.Five seconds later, a prompt appeared on the first line of the screen.

Huang Kun: "This XS3725 chip is responsible for the calculation of the whole computer, and the other chips are all done by hand. Is the computing speed of the computer not increasing?"

Tang Hua: "It should be enough." After speaking, he typed a few words casually, and then typed the simplest 4-line program.

"The chip memory is faster than the magnetic core memory, so it feels even better than the T56 when dealing with routine operations, because of the fast response. Of course, the speed will slow down when running complex calculation programs, but if it is for students' learning With the machine, it’s not a big problem.”

"Minister Tang, I feel that you attach great importance to this student computer," Huang Kun said, "You seem to like it even more than T57."

Tang Hua: "Of course. ... It may be the direction of computer development in the future."

Huang Kun:? !

What Tang Hua and Huang Kun are assembling is probably the world's first personal computer—of course, it is now called a student computer by Tang Hua. The XS of XS3725, in Tang Hua's words, means "student".

As for 3725, this is not an arbitrary number, it means that the processor integrates 3725 transistors...

Student computers, the low-end version is aimed at Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing Institute of Technology and "11th University of Xueyuan Road". At least one computer classroom should be established in these schools. It is a computer classroom where all students can sit down and operate in front of the computer screen while listening to the teacher's lecture.

There is no hard disk, and other configurations are simple, and the built-in programming environment is started at startup, but it has network functions-it is equipped with a computer classroom and a storage server at the same time, so that students do not have a place to save large assignments on the computer.

In addition to building computer classrooms for colleges and universities, "student computers" still have other uses. As office and word processors, they are also much cheaper than T55, T56 or T57. The State Planning Commission and network centers around the country will be equipped with some, and some The machine may also come with a "bucket" of hard drives.The external hard disk is not complicated, and there are interfaces and leads on the motherboard.

But there is one difference from the T57: this so-called student computer is not going to be a big hit for now.Because this will squeeze the market for T-series computers and reduce the total profit-the cost of student computers is indeed much cheaper than T57, and it is a bit inappropriate to sell such computers at a high price.

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November 11.Melbourne.

The opening ceremony of the 16th Summer Olympic Games was held in the main stadium with 10.4 spectators.

Governor-General of Australia, the Duke of Edinburgh, was at the end of the long steps in front of the stadium podium, waiting for the arrival of the athletes carrying the torch relay.

The opening time is coming soon, and the audience in the stadium suddenly becomes uproarious.A line of athletes ran into the stadium from the entrance, the one in the center holding a burning torch.The athletes made a half-circle around the field and ran towards the Duke of Edinburgh.Australian track and field athlete R. Clark lit the torch of the main venue, and the Olympic Games officially began.