One final note I would like to share from these meetings with Tony is perhaps the most intriguing of what he said, but also the one he delivered with the greatest outright confidence. In a discussion about the developments of computers in the future - whether we are reaching limits of Moore's Law, whether Quantum Computers will be required to reinvigorate progress, and other rather shallow and obvious hardware talking points raised by me in an effort to spark Tony's interest - he said 'Well, of course, nothing we have even comes close to what the government has access to. They will always be years ahead of what you can imagine'. When pressed on this, in particular whether he believed such technology to be on the scale of solving the large prime factorisation that the world's cryptographic protocols are based on, he was cagey and shrugged enigmatically. One wonders what he had seen, or perhaps he was engaging in a bit of knowing trolling; Tony had a fantastic sense of humour and was certainly capable of leading me down the garden path with irony and satire before I realised a joke was being made.
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This is a case where the abstractions of the C programming language start to break down. 0 is indeed a null pointer constant in C, but the hardware sees 0 as a memory address like any other. Some systems have nothing valid there, but some other systems (like this one) put exception vectors at this location. When certain types of hardware interrupts or exceptions happen, the CPU jumps to certain fixed addresses around address 0 (the specific types of exceptions and the specific addresses are a property of the CPU architecture).
兴奋的原因很简单。当一种技术突然变成全民讨论的话题时，新的市场往往正在形成。（延伸阅读：龙虾爆火，互联网巨头开始重新思考一件事）