<h4>Chapter 575 But Can it Run Doom?</h4>


    Aron, still giddy with excitement, ran to his seat at lightning speed. He couldn''t wait any longer to test theputer and see if it met the standards outlined in the knowledge he had purchased from the system. He plugged it in and powered it on, allowing theputer to draw electricity from the wall through its power brick, which converted it to mana to power theponents, thuspleting the bootup processes.


    The operating system he had written into it came to life, lighting up the screen with the GAIA Technologies logo, something he was careful to never leave out of his innovations.


    “Let’s see how it holds up,” he said as he pulled up the benchmarking program he had written alongside the runic OS.


    But after fiddling with the program for a while, he was left less than impressed by the runicputer’s speed of operations. It was fine for single operations, but didn’t even include the ability to hyperthread to at least emte the ability to multitask. Perhaps starting with quantumputers had spoiled him somewhat.


    “But can it run doom...” he muttered to himself as he pulled up the venerableputer game.


    ……


    A weekter.


    Aron was still sitting at his desk in his virtualb, this time with a shining stainless steel cylinder in front of him. It stood six inches in diameter and another six inches tall, and had a clear window in it. A murky, light yellowish liquid with streams of bubbles was visible through the window, which stretched from the base of the cylinder to near the top. Anyone who guessed that the cylinder was a biologicalputer would have been right.


    Aron had spent the past week of Earth time in his virtualb, creating and testing iterations of the two technologies he’d bought from the system. Currently, he was rather satisfied with what he had already aplished, though he knew there was much further to go.


    “When ites to RAM, qRAM is the fastest. As for single-threaded operations, runic processing is hands down superior to the others. But for multi-threaded operations, quantum processors take the cake. And I doubt I’ll find a better high-density storage media than a biologicalputer’s DNA storage,” he dictated to Nova, having finallye to his conclusion after his experiments with the newputing technologies.


    “Nova, pass what I’ve got here on to the goldbs in Lab City. Tell them to begin integrating it all into a singleputing system that takes advantage of the strengths of the three technologies while mitigating their weaknesses as much as possible. I don’t expect much out of tier 1 tech, but the new incorporatedputer systems will be the gshipputers for the empire moving forward.


    “Not only will integrating everything into a unique whole make it nearly impossible to hack, but I estimate that the original product will be right up at the tier 2 line, if not even higher. This project might be our first tier 2 technology, and we’ll havee up with it ourselves. But even if it isn’t, the three paths seem to be the main ones in use throughout the universe, so if wee into contact with an enemy that’s chosen one of the three paths, we’ll be able to use the other two to put up a fight against them.” Aron’s choice could perhaps save the empire from subjugation in the future.


    [Right away, sir,] Nova replied, her figure flickering as she passed on his marching orders to the researchers.


    “Next item on the agenda: creating a bridge that I can use to integrate the three programmingnguages.”


    Aron returned to his work, this time focusing on creating a program that would allow three wholly uniquenguages to wlessly blend together into a singr newnguage. It would be needed as soon as the researchers in Lab City came up with a way to integrate the hardware into a singleputer.


    Without a unified programmingnguage that was capable of porting instructions from any of the threenguages into any othernguage, the new hardware would be useless. After all, no matter how shiny and excellent aputer’s hardware was, it would still be useless without programs that ran on it.


    But if that was his only reason, he would have left it to the researchers in Lab City to create alongside the newputer system. In fact, it would even be more efficient to do it that way. However, the programmingnguage was important for another reason: he needed it to be able tomunicate with all three systems in order for Project Protagonist to function.


    With his understanding of thenguages, it took him virtually no time at all before he had written a program that blended them together and created an entirely newnguage. The newnguage wasn’t quite as streamlined as any of the sourcenguages—Aron alone couldn’t possibly bepared to a collection of generations of the greatest minds of alien civilizations—but it was an astounding act of creation nheless.


    During testing, it was shown to only require an average of a femtosecond longer to operate a program whenpared with running that same program on dedicated hardware with matching programmingnguages. And a femtosecond ofg time was an absolutely outstanding result, especially given that he was still working on version 0.1 of the newnguage.


    “Now to finish the Project Protagonist code.”


    Upon finishing his new programmingnguage, he immediately moved to create the remaining two segments of code for his n.


    Waving his hand, he manifested a runicputer and began writing code for the runic integration in his project. Twelve hourster, he fed it into hispiler and switched to a biologicalputer and biological code. And fourteen hours after that, he beganpiling that segment of code as well.


    And with that, he stood and stretched, letting out a contented groan as he was no longer used to remaining physically inactive for long periods of time. But now all that was left was to rpile the three segments of code and run it through the converter he had created, turning it into a program capable of adapting any medium or biological body it found itself in.


    “It should be about time for the show to start, right, Nova?” he asked, waving his hand and teleporting to just a few hundred kilometers away from the simted Sun, where he would watch as the predicted Carrington event began.


    [Just a few hours now,] Nova answered.


    “Is that Earth time or simtion time?”


    [Simtion time, sir. You have impable timing.]


    Aron nodded and turned his attention to the raging surface of the Sun.