Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Gates is so frustrated, mainly from; the huge pressure of 1-2-3, its development momentum can only be described by sweeping the entire ibm-platform, and it has now become the standard for bundled sales of ibm- and Compaq portable personal computers. Spreadsheet software. . .

As for these similar products, they have become yesterday's yellow flowers. If it weren't for a version that supports multiple platforms such as cp/m to linger, it would simply be closed.

The stimulus effect of 1-2-3 on ibm-sales is also very obvious. At this stage, personal computer and spreadsheet software are the best combination of functions. Customers can take it and use it directly without special training. , So as to solve the real business needs.

At this time, ibm-, apparently found the true emperor in the killer application software, coupled with the long-standing brand effect created by the blue giant, finally began to show off in the market.

Tang Huan quickly realized that in this electronic spreadsheet software war, Lotus has basically completed the unification on the ibm-platform at a speed beyond its own expectations.

This staggering achievement in the industry can only be explained by creating heroes with the times.

The profit margin of current software products is generally between 60% and 70%. If the various links are properly matched, it may reach a higher level.

It can be seen how powerful this kind of intellectual product is to attract gold.

In other words. If Lotus Software is allowed to develop without obstacles, it will surely become a serious concern. Because; 1-2-3 has pushed the front of the spreadsheet software war to the ibm- and Fangyuan personal computer camps.

As the first pot of gold in Tang Huan's career, he has always occupied a special position in the software product department. The functions provided by programmers engaged in coding. And the sales and profits contributed. They are all top-notch.

In addition to built-in functions such as electronic trial calculations, financial functions, chart display, data analysis, etc., it also provides powerful software suite functions for data interaction with word processing software, database products ebase, and support for multiple languages ​​including Far East languages .

These characteristics are hard to beat by other similar products; 1-2-3 is no exception.

But in response to that sentence, the world martial arts, only fast and unbreakable, almost did not show any bugs; 1-2-3, just by operating efficiency. It swept all competitors.

It is impossible like; 1-2-3, in order to pursue execution speed, we completely abandon the C language and completely use assembly language for coding.

first of all. In terms of quantity, it far exceeds; the powerful functions of 1-2-3 and the degree of coding complexity brought by it does not allow this.

In addition, according to the information obtained, Don Estelich has reached an agreement with Mitchel Kapoor; 1-2-3 only supports the ibm-platform.

In other words, using assembly language; 1-2-3. The programmer only needs to face the intel8088 cpu.

However, it supports multiple hardware platforms such as the first generation Fangyuan computer, the second generation Fangyuan computer, apple, etc., which need to face; 6502, intel8086, and many other CPUs. Only high-level programming languages ​​like c can help effective project management.

The result of this is that, in accordance with the user’s way of thinking, ignoring the professional differences in the personal computer architecture, in a machine environment with a low operating frequency cpu and a small memory capacity, 1-2-3 is indeed effective in terms of execution efficiency. Gives a better feeling.

"The honor of the world's first spreadsheet software belongs to us, but now some people use similar products to grab the limelight with just the specious propaganda stunt of running speed. Are you willing to accept this situation?" Tang Huan, sitting at the top , Looked around at his subordinates, asked slowly.

Although some people went to Hawaii for vacation, the rest of the people just got the opportunity to show their abilities in front of the big boss, so they all cheered up and offered suggestions.

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"On a low-profile personal computer, comparing and; 1-2-3 operating efficiency is meaningless."

"Indeed, the main users of spreadsheet software are companies, not individuals. One characteristic of the actual application of spreadsheet software is that the amount of data is increasing. This fundamentally requires personal computers with faster CPUs and more Large memory, and as long as it can really help solve business problems, companies still have a lot of tolerance for prices."

"Although there is also an ibm- version, it is mainly to provide functions such as viewing and printing data files, and it is not possible to greatly enhance this version in order to compete with the running speed.

"Therefore, the 1-2-3 competition environment should be set to a hardware configuration with a memory capacity of 256kb and above, which is almost the mainstream configuration of commercial computers."

"With good modularity in design, we can launch a targeted version, which will kill the combination of 1-2-3 and ibm- into scum."

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In the heated discussion, the response plan quickly took shape.

In order to let users who are not familiar with computer expertise understand that since they need to compete for operating efficiency, they should have a fair and reasonable environment, so in the second-generation Fangyuan computer, the intel8086 model with 256kb memory and the model with 512kb memory were selected And ibm-comparison platform.

At the same time, the plan also clearly highlighted three elements:

Fast that makes sense is fast-that is, it makes sense to compare speed on such a commercial platform.

It is as powerful as it is on the outside—that is, it has more practical functions ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ which can help customers solve business problems.

Really versatile-that is, the model provides multi-tasking support, and can run spreadsheets and word processing at the same time.

At the same time, corresponding to the 1-2-3 price advantage, it also uses a similar set of functions to fight back on corporate procurement costs.

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After reading the plan, Tang Huan felt that this energetic action should be of great benefit to Fangyuan’s goal of shipping more than 1.6 million computers in 1983.

Tang Huan, who nodded secretly, with a wave of the gold pen, approved the first phase of 800,000 US dollars.

As a result, people quickly noticed the start of a new spreadsheet software war in various advertisements-recently embraced ibm thighs, the scenery is infinite, and a bit arrogant; 1-2-3, provokes philosophers The anger of this industry pioneer and the world's largest software supplier. (To be continued. (.))

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