The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

87. Genius (3)

“Is it correct to use semaphores for shared resource access control?”

“yes. The semaphore is set up while one process is using it to wait for another process, and the semaphore is released when the use is finished.”

“Is the reason for not using the polling structure for the IO Bound Job method in CPU scheduling because of speed?”

“Exactly. Interrupting every time to check if the I/O is finished after each activity, because processing the process eats up too many CPU resources.”

“Aha! You structured it that way.”

Hoyoung and John Carmack had already been talking for over two hours sitting at the table.

John Carmack was engrossed in the conversation with Hoyeong, as if he was the one who complained about not wanting to talk.

John Romero, who had been talking with them at first, shook his head and went back to his seat to do his personal business, as if he was tired of their conversation.

“Oh, there are so many things I want to ask you, but I don’t know where to start.

Hoyeong also smiled and made a face that couldn’t be helped.

“zone. Do you know we’ve been talking for two hours already?”

“Has it already been that time? Ah, I have to work today too…”

“haha. There will be plenty of time in the future. I plan to stay here for at least a week from now.”

“Oh, is that so?”

John Carmack’s eyes twinkled as he looked at Hoyoung.

“So why don’t we finish the story we were originally going to talk about today and meet again tomorrow?”

“The story I was originally going to tell… ah! It’s an investment story.”

“That’s right.”

“zone! Come here Mr. Yoon. Do you want to talk to me? It’s time to talk about investing.”

John Romero sighed and trudged toward the table where Hoyoung and John Carmack were sitting.

“We were talking about that investment from the beginning, right? It was you who interfered.”

“okay? Mr. Yoon. Are you disturbed?”

“no. Not at all.”

“I said no?”

“under···. Let’s not talk.”

John Romero shook his head, and Hoyoung laughed at the two of them.

“Two minutes. You look really good.”

“haha. It sounds like you don’t have enough eyes to see. By the way, do you have any contract terms in mind?”

said John Romero, glancing slightly at John Carmack.

“I don’t want a lot. Currently, id Software is aware that the current five founding members have decided to equally share 20% each. Is that correct?”

“Hmm···. I won’t tell you where you heard it. In conclusion, it is correct.”

“I will fully support the production costs until I produce the next three games.”

“You mean three?”

“yes. Include all your labor costs, equipment usage fees, and various utility bills in the production cost. I will pay for everything.”

John Romero gave a surprised expression for a moment, then quickly hardened his expression again.

He knew all too well the truth that nothing is free in this world.

It is because the fact that Hoyoung bet such a good condition is the same as saying that he will get something that big.

“Then Mr. Yoon. What do you want?”

“All you have to do is put me in the 1/5 share of each of the current 5 people and divide it into 1/6.”

“Does that mean you want a stake of about 16.6% after all?”

“I guess so.”

John Romero rolled his head.

1/5 became 1/6, which meant each had to give up only about 3.4% of the stake.

He thought the conditions not too bad.

“Hmm. Your conditions are simpler than I thought.”

“I am not that greedy. All I want is to see talented people blossom.”

Hoyoung said with a relaxed expression.

In fact, Hoyoung had a different intention.

‘John Romero, it’s just to guard against you.’

Although John Romero, who is considered a genius programmer today and a legendary figure in the distant future, he had a huge flaw.

Indolence and arrogance.

A few years later, ‘Doom’, which was completed, becomes a worldwide hit, and John Romero, who sits on a money cushion, begins to change little by little.

When interviewing or talking to people outside the company, he talks about it as if he played a major role in making Doom, and inside the company, he neglects his duties because he does not do his job properly.

Eventually, she fell out with John Carmack, and was fired from id Software for negligence.

‘If I don’t get fired at that time because of the contractual relationship, I’ll be in trouble.’

Of course, in this lifetime, John Romero may not be sluggish.

However, Ho-young thought that human nature does not change so easily, so he made a defense plan.

“good. I will try to talk to my teammates.”

“I’m in favor for now. When this happens, Mr. Can’t Yoon be called our team too?”

John Carmack was pure.

A genius programmer with a pure passion for programming.

Hoyoung thought it was good to meet him.

“zone.”

When Hoyeong called for John, both John Romeo and John Carmack looked back at the same time.

“I’m sorry. Same name, so this happens. Whoops. Carmack. I have a friend with whom I would like to introduce him to Carmack.”

“Who are you?”

“This is Shigeru Miyamoto.”

“yes?!”

John Carmack screamed and jumped up from his seat.

“Are you from Nintendo?”

John Romeo, who had been listening as if he was not interested, also asked Hoyoung back.

“yes. I am Shigeru Miyamoto, director of Nintendo.”

“How does he know?”

“Nintendo and Sega Games are partners with H&H, didn’t you know?”

John Carmack and John Romero were ardent supporters of Shigeru Miyamoto.

In particular, John Carmack even used an expression of respect.

He personally converted Super Mario Bros. 3 into a PC version and suggested developing the PC version to Nintendo America first.

“When the opportunity arises, I will definitely arrange a place for you.”

“Please, please.”

John Carmack has completely lost his mind to Ho-young.

And everything was as Hoyoung intended.

Ho-Young came here not to target id software, but to make John Carmack into Ho-Young’s person.

‘Good games and companies can be made anytime. But genius programmers like John Carmack can be counted on one hand even if you go around the world.’

Hoyoung thought that a single John Carmack had greater value than a single promising company.

“Then I’ll just go in and see you, and I’ll come back tomorrow. I also have company work, but I think I take up too much time.”

“I didn’t steal that much…”

John Carmack looked back and forth between Hoyoung and his computer.

He has work to do today, but it was easy to see that he wanted to talk to Hoyeong more.

“I’ll be back tomorrow, so why don’t you take care of your business first?”

“Hmm···. Okay. See you tomorrow.”

John Carmack was clearly disappointed.

No matter how genius he was, he was now only a twenty-one-year-old young man.

Hoyoung found that John Carmack cute.

“ruler. So will this just happen? It seems rude to interfere too much with id software.”

Hoyeong got up and said as she left the office, followed by Smith and Miru.

“Mr. Romero. Could you consult with the others and prepare the contract for tomorrow?”

“All right. see you tommorow.”

After hearing John Romero’s answer, Hoyoung left the office and headed for the hotel.

His expression on the way to the hotel was very bright.

Just as John Carmack expected to be with him, Ho-young expected to be with him.

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From the next day, one routine was added to John Carmack’s daily life, which had only programming and rest.

“Well···. In this case, it would be more advantageous to implement the shortest job first (SJF) method rather than FIFO (First In, First Out).”

“Right. If you set the time of the image load function to the shortest, the image will be loaded first and the detailed calculation will be done later.”

“If that happens, users won’t feel stuffy because the images are loaded first, right?”

“Whoops. Yes.”

From two to six hours a day.

It was to establish the concept of the next engine while talking about programming with Hoyoung.

It was not simply a time for Hoyoung to teach John Carmack.

Did you say that teaching is the most learning?

While Hoyoung taught John Carmack the composition of Kronos and his programming theory, he was sometimes surprised by John Carmack’s creativity and genius.

‘It’s really fun after a long time.’

Hoyoung realized once again that programming with like-minded people is so much fun.

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The week went by really fast.

It’s a short time if it’s short, but John Carmack has perfectly mastered how to create the most optimized program in Kronos.

“Wow. I think I have a bit of an understanding of the operating system now. Shall I make an operating system too?”

“Oh, bear with me. You’re already amazing as a game developer. Chronos 2 will be released next year. I don’t want to increase the competition.”

John Carmack and Ho-Young decided to be friends because the age difference was only one year.

“ha ha ha! I’ll yield once.”

“This is true… Should I say thank you?”

“Then you should thank me!”

Hoyoung and John Carmack laughed amicably.

“By the way, then you’re thinking of making your next project for Kronos, right?”

“then. DOS has limited available memory, so it can’t even go as planned anyway. There is no answer other than Chronos to include all the features that have been planned for now.”

“okay?”

Hoyoung smiled without hiding his happy expression.

‘In the future, games from id Software will naturally become Cronos exclusives.’

According to his prediction, the future games like ‘Wolfenstein’, ‘Doom’, and ‘Quake’ were likely to be made only for Cronus.

In particular, due to the nature of John Carmack, who dislikes cumbersome things, there will be no need to code from scratch and make it for DOS with limitations on memory and resource management.

“Hoyeong. Goodbye now.”

“don’t worry. I will be back soon.”

“okay?”

“yes. There are countless things to see in America anyway. There are many companies that have invested in them. When my work in Korea is free, I will come to America often.”

“I see. Then I hope to come back as soon as possible.”

John Carmack reached out to Hoyoung.

Hoyoung held her hand.

“okay. In the meantime, I’ve been working hard on making games.”

“It’s me, development always works hard.”

Hoyoung was also very sad about breaking up with John Carmack.

But he had so much to do.

‘If my goal is over, I think it would be nice to live as a normal developer.’

However, Hoyoung’s goal was so far and difficult.

The complete downfall and ruin of Jo Nam-shik.

Currently, Jo Jeong-sik seems to be on Ho-yeong’s side, but he will not be able to lead Jo Nam-sik to ruin at the last moment.

No matter how much they growl at each other, in the end they are brothers.

“Hoyeong. What do you think? You must never forget my request.”

It was then that John Carmack pulled Hoyoung out of his thoughts.

“okay. how could i forget that I will definitely tell Shigeru Miyamoto about you.”

“thank you.”

John Carmack smiled happily.

Hoyoung suddenly thought of NCR Corporation.

In Dayton, all the preparations to bring the wavelan device to Korea must have been completed.

Thinking of Gaia’s active role in the Internet space made me smile.

‘ruler. It’s a good start from now.’

Hoyeong once again made up her mind.