Rebirth of the Tech Madman

"It goes without saying that our graphical user interface system t-fde is the most perfect. At present, things like this are all farce with the purpose of commercial speculation. Super fast and stable update of novels, this article is first published by..." Charles Simeone replied proudly, "As far as rp is concerned, why is it not delivered immediately, but a kit?"

"People have achieved the purpose of hype and rp wants to expand market share." People engaged in technology research and development and those engaged in market operations have inherently different thinking patterns. Charles Simone clearly sees the truth of the matter very clearly, but the assessment result is only based on whether the technology is advanced or not, which makes Louis Gerstner quite helpless.

"We are a high-tech industry, and the tricks of castles in the sky are a waste of time." Charles Simeone was still indifferent to the threat.

Lucis Gerstner didn’t want to argue with Charles Simeone, a stubborn guy, about the priority of technology and marketing. He coughed and said directly: “RP’s actions may affect Fangyuan’s personal computers and ibm- like -2-3. The market battle pattern. Now I just want to know clearly where our fde ratio is so that we can take countermeasures."

"Before the system with a fully graphical user interface is put on the market, we need to define a practical standard for it, such as multitasking, bitmap icons, drag and drop operations, etc.. Apple’s Lisa computer, completed in this regard Not bad. But it lacks a powerful enough power platform, and even the minimum system operating efficiency is not up to standard. As a result, it is fundamentally difficult to please users."

At this point, Charles Simeone raised three fingers. "The cold reception of Lisa Computer in the market just shows that a truly practical graphical user interface system. It must run on a hardware platform that meets the performance standards. The three are indispensable for cpu, memory, and hard disk."

Charles Simeone smiled playfully. "Although Steve Jobs has been covering his project, we have determined that it is not equipped with a hard drive, let alone multitasking capabilities."

"According to Tang's prediction, the popularization of graphical user interface systems requires the arrival of the age of 32-bit microprocessors. The improved version, as well as the processor under development, and our architecture processor, are such representatives. So. Now urgent The emerging graphical user interface system will fall halfway due to technical limitations, hardware costs and other factors, and become a fertilizer for latecomers to learn from experience.” Charles Simeone finally made a powerful gesture, which concluded.

Lucis Gerstner nodded after listening to Charles Simeone’s eloquent talk, then picked up a pen to calculate, "495 dollars, mouse 250 dollars, dollars, dollars, dollars, a total of 1,765 dollars, This is the price of the most complete application suite that may appear on the ibm-platform. It is at least one-third cheaper than Zheru software, and the threat should not be underestimated."

"That also needs to be able to run, at least the hard disk is essential. And it needs at least 512kb of memory. In addition, running and waiting for software in this environment, there must be more memory."

Charles Simeone picked up another pen and wrote a number after Lucis Gerstner’s calculations, and then explained: “ibm-is not as extensible as a Fangyuan personal computer. For example, adding content is destined to be very troublesome. It can only run on an ibm- equipped with a hard disk, plus more than 512kb of memory, the total cost of the entire system is close to 10,000 US dollars."

"The Lisa computer that sells for $9,995 is only a quarter of the price claimed by Jobs. You don't know what the sniper is like." Charles Simeone smiled and shrugged. "No one can match our advantage in a high-end microcomputer system under $20,000."

"Although we are in the balance of technology and cost. We are the best, but we can't ignore the unexpected marketing. It may catch us by surprise." Lucis Gerstner watched Charles Simeone and said slowly: "I want to take the initiative. How about you arrange a demonstration of fde?"

"Tang's point is that after Jobs has finished building momentum in the market, we will pick up a ready-made cheap concept that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and follow up appropriately." Charles Simeone showed hesitation on his face.

"Tang handed over the affairs of Silicon Valley to us, that is, trusting our ability to assess the situation." Lucis Gerstner smiled slightly, "Don't tell me, you don't want to slam these clowns under your feet and tell them. , Who is the king of technology."

"You people who do marketing work, you can be so deceptive." Charles Simeone shook his head with a smile.

...

Don Estelitch was promoted and was promoted to vice president in charge of the personal computer business by ibm headquarters, but he didn't know whether he was happy.

The ibm management committee is still very positive about Don Estelitch's work on ibm-, because it proved that the relatively low-tech personal computer business can indeed make money.

After the launch of ibm-, Big Blue has benefited a lot and attracted great public attention. At the same time, the company's cash flow statement has also undergone gratifying and huge changes, and the stock price has risen all the way.

But ibm executives are not very satisfied with ibm-'s market performance, because its profits are not as lucrative as the mainframe business, which makes the blue giants who have been in a state of "making big money" a little unaccustomed.

More importantly, ibm- has been succumbed to the Fangyuan personal computer and has become the second in the millennium. This is a shame for the blue giant.

After so-called research, ibm's management committee came to a conclusion. If you want to catch up with Fangyuan PC and counteract Fangyuan Computer's aggressiveness in the field of high-end products, it is necessary to further strengthen the strength of the ibm-department.

Ever since. A large number of middle-level managers in suits and shoes have moved into the personal computer department in Boca Raton. Its scale has expanded rapidly, and its status has risen accordingly. It is reasonable for Don Estelic to be promoted to vice president.

At the beginning, Don Estelich was quite happy, after all, in addition to furthering his personal career, he can also ensure that this year's ibm-sales goal of breaking one million is achieved.

But it didn't take long for Don Estelic to start to feel distressed. This feeling of promotion does not seem to be wonderful. And there is a tendency to be emptied.

In the past, I gave an instruction to the lowest-level subordinates, that is, a one-sentence thing, but now it’s okay. There are several links in the middle, and the efficiency of work is obviously reduced.

Don Estelitch, who felt more and more hands-on, suddenly realized that the current personal computer department is no longer the non-staff organization that broke away from the bureaucratic system of the ibm headquarters and carried out the "chess plan" freely. Up.

Don Estelich couldn't determine whether the personal computer department was put back under the ibm headquarters management model, whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. He just felt heavy in his heart.

Fortunately, at this time, rp brought the first graphical user interface system to the ibm-platform. And it attracted wide attention from the industry and outside the industry, which made him feel happy a lot.

Regardless of whether the rp is currently practical or not, at least it shows the infinite possibilities of ibm in this field in the future. I only hope that the headquarters will not think that this function will affect the traditional high-end business.

Therefore, Don Estelich decided to support it. After all, he was also a little guilty. Before ibm-choose pre-installed spreadsheet software, now it is changed to more advanced -2-3, which really makes the cooperation relationship good. rp hit hard.

Just as Don Estelich pondered. What specific measures can be taken to "compensate" the progressive rp to the greatest extent. Unexpectedly, Gates suddenly jumped out and declared that Microsoft would be before the end of the rp delivery. The dex will be launched in the fall, priced at US$250.

Note that it is half the price of $495.

Seeing this, Don Estelitch's nose almost crooked. How could this narrow-minded Gates be so innocent, sabotaging ibm-a great opportunity to further win customers?

After thinking about it, Don Estelitch immediately understood that Gates was afraid of eroding ms-in the field of operating systems.

"Asshole!" Don Estelic was not even more depressed, but he had no way to reconcile this kind of conflict of interest within the ibm-camp, just as Microsoft insisted on launching it in the field of spreadsheets and competition.

In view of the poor performance of Microsoft's previous development for ibm-, and the current exhaustion of research and development to adapt to the next-generation personal computer ibm-, Don Estelich has every reason to suspect that Gates does not have sufficient resources in the graphical user interface. The field has made a difference, but is jealous of the lead, so it despicably releases smoke bombs, leaving users at a loss.

Besides, when Microsoft develops graphical user interface operating systems, why don't you report to ibm in advance? Don't you know who you are relying on to improve your current status in the industry?

Just as Don Estelich was about to call Gates over and make serious negotiations, Jobs began to speak out, "It is suitable for all users and has epoch-making significance. After launch, it only costs $2,000. I don’t know about the ibm-. After the whole system is calculated, what is the quotation?"

Don Estelitch, who had roughly calculated it again, was dumbfounded at the time. The price of the software plus the hardware was close to 10,000 US dollars, which could hit the commercial system provided by the combination of Fangyuan Computer and Zheru Software.

To know. This solution of others can be said to be in full swing, dominating the enterprise-level market under $20,000.

Don Estelitch, who felt like he had entered a dead end, quickly called for Liu Gebrecht's successor-the current ibm-chief designer Bill Sydneys. Ask him, in order to cooperate. ibm-can further reduce the cost.

Bill Sydneys is busy developing the ibm- with intel80286, and after seeing the popularity of Compaq’s portable ibm-compatible machine, he plans to imitate the similar product ibm-.

Seeing that Don Estelitch was quite enthusiastic about it, Bill Sydneys said directly: "I think the so-called graphical user interfaces are all flashy things, not worth our effort."

"However, it can help ibm attract a wider range of public attention. It is an opportunity to lead Fangyuan personal computer." Don Estelich muttered unwillingly.

...

However, Don Estelic will soon be relieved of the dilemma.

The it media, which was enthusiastically sought after before, suddenly took a big turn in its attitude. It began to rationally analyze the practicality of the graphical user interface, and compared it with a few demo pictures taken on the spot, it flatteringly asserted that philosopher’s Fde is the real graphical user interface, other products are scum.

It turned out that Lucis Gerstner organized an event to visit fde at the Zheru R&D Center, and 50 people were invited. It means corresponding to the 50 states of the United States. These include heavyweight IT media in the United States such as "Bit", as well as celebrities in professional fields such as desktop publishing, graphic design, and computer-aided design.

The outside world has long heard of the strength of the Zheru R&D center. The crowd came almost with a pilgrimage mentality, but after seeing the actual performance of fde, their saliva almost shed.

fde can run on Vientiane, a high-end operating system for workstations/servers, and on personal computers. This demonstration computer uses Fangyuan Personal Work and Fangyuan Personal Computer Ultra.

Both systems are equipped with hard disks, the memory capacity is above 1mb, and the operating frequency of the cpu is also extraordinary. The architecture has reached 50mhz, and the architecture has reached 20mhz.

This hardware configuration is invisibly explained. The hardware platform required by the graphical user interface system must have sufficient power.

The specific presentation content is. Use desktop publishing system software aker, r and graphic design software in the fde environment. Computer-aided design software ad, as well as spreadsheet software and word processing programs.

When the visitors finally reluctantly bid farewell to the Philosopher R&D Center, an editor from the Los Angeles Times exclaimed: “We seem to have a dream of a science fiction journey, but unfortunately the time is too short.”

Most of the invited visitors this time are pure users, who cannot tell fde from a technical point of view, but because of this, they can better appreciate the real charm of the graphical user interface.

During the experience, the computer used for the demonstration has been playing the CD of a well-known Asian singer Teresa Deng at the same time. According to the explanation of the technicians, this is to demonstrate the multi-tasking capabilities of the system.

The gentle and gentle singing voice unique to oriental women slowly calmed everyone down due to the excitement they had when they first saw fde.

In Xerox Star, Lisa Computer, and other graphical user interface systems, the smooth scrolling display of text content has been implemented to varying degrees. Of course, fde does a better job.

I don't want to compliment this point. I just emphasize that the display effect of the ype font can be described as a higher level, and it can be said to be a great boon for the emerging desktop publishing industry.

fde provides a "start" menu in the lower left corner, from here you can find all the operations of operating the computer, which is also the source of the meaning of "start".

In fde, almost all operation objects have a corresponding bitmap icon to represent, and can be dragged to produce wonderful results.

For example, dragging the icon of a text file onto a trash bin icon means that the file is deleted; if it is dragged onto an e-mail program, the program is started and ready to send e-mails.

I sent an e-mail to another visitor who came with me.

The natural degree of that kind of operation is like the logic of what you do in reality, and there is almost no requirement for the computer operator.

Well, I can only say this. Those of us who are visitors have an agreement with Zheru in advance and should not disclose too many fde details.

In short, my feeling is that after using fde, the current computer operation mode, and other similar products, suddenly become dull.

But ~www.wuxiahere.com~ such a perfect graphical user interface system has strict basic requirements for hardware configuration, including a cpu with a running frequency of 10mhz or more, and a memory of 1mb or more.

Therefore, it is temporarily unable to market at a price acceptable to ordinary consumers.

Even if you are a wealthy technology enthusiast, you don't have the opportunity to kiss Fangze, because philosophers must consider technology confidentiality.

Of course, fde is not always in the boudoir. There are two types of users who can officially experience its functions. One is the major contract customers with basic strong needs such as Boeing and Ford, and the other is certain application environments of the Los Angeles Olympics.

...

After seeing these ebullient reports, Don Estelitch's heart completely cooled.

There are Microsoft and Apple who use price wars to dig into the walls, and there are philosophers who use technology to block blocks. They are destined to die thoroughly. I am afraid that even the survival of rp is a problem. (To be continued)

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