Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Seeing that the bearded Woz also ran to the San Jose International Airport to pick him up, Tang Huan smiled and said, "Why are you so enthusiastic?"

"Doing for charity.`" Woz smiled and scratched his head.

"Just go to my office and get the check. You don't have to see me." Tang Huanshi smiled and shook his head, opened the door, and got into the car with Woz.

Although Tang Huan often flies around by plane, he has permanent offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong, Paris and other places, and the secretary can directly handle such trivial matters.

"You can't show the sincerity of participating in this charity just by paying the money. I want to collect some celebrities' items and auction them for charity. You are versatile and will never be stumped. Manuscripts, calligraphy and painting are all welcome. Within." Woz explained in detail.

Tang Huan nodded repeatedly while listening. Don't look at Woz, the founder of Apple, who is not doing his job properly, but it is not a good thing for him. After all, with his bad personality, he has become increasingly unable to adapt to the contradictory Apple corporate politics.

Woz tried to jump out of Apple and founded an it startup company alone, but it was not good at running it, and Jobs was angrily blocked when he knew it, and finally ended in a hasty.

In addition, although cruel, I have to face it up. Because the crash seriously affected Woz's memory, his genius who designed app1ei and app1eii by one hand is really no longer in his former glory. Silicon Valley has never lacked talented people, who have been beaten to death by the waves of the Yangtze River and the beaches of it, where technology is changing with each passing day.

In fact, Apple hopes that Woz, the founder, will always become his legendary idol instead of starting anew.

Therefore, this bad guy is considered to be taken by the bear.

In this way, the San Francisco Music Festival sponsored by Woz and Tang Huan became his best activity to kill time.

At the third San Francisco Music Festival in September this year, Deng Lijun showed several photos of her visit to Africa with the French first lady Danielle Mitterrand, and told her personal experience about what she had seen and heard. This event, with more charitable elements, immediately improved a lot of style, and many people including Woz took an active part in it.

Tang Huan is a nostalgic person, in the process of quickly gaining a billionaire halo by taking advantage of Apple. `Woz can be regarded as a noble person, so he is happy to see each other useful.

In fact, as long as Woz sends a suitable financial assistant who can talk about it, he, the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial myth icon, can still play a lot of role. The San Francisco Music Festival is an obvious example.

right now. Woz began to contact celebrities in the IT and music circles to promote charitable activities to help African hungry people. He naturally wanted to support him, so he nodded and agreed, "No problem, I must find a few meaningful personal items and contribute them. "

Woz was so happy that he nodded again and again, and when he got something from Tang Huan, he happily left and turned to the next goal. Not mentioning Apple’s recent status at all, this shows the degree of gradual distance between the two.

The current Apple company has almost reached the stage of fighting back. In terms of product sales, Lisa computers are almost zero. As for the mac that appeared on the market at the beginning of this year, it can't even sell 1oooo units every month. It suddenly regressed to the level of 198o. .

Because of neglect, app1eiigs, the latest model of app1eii, which provides long-term stable financial resources for Apple, has also begun to show signs of decline.

In order to get rid of the embarrassment of the lack of performance of mac and few people care about it, the Lisa department has been merged into Steve Jobs of the mac department. Recently, there was a desperate move, that is, to modify the slow-selling Lisa computer, such as adding a mac simulator, and then packaging it into an upgraded macxl model. Sold at a price close to US$40oo.

The performance bottleneck of the mac with only 128kb memory is too fatal; the redesigned Lisa computer, which sells for close to US$1oooo, the macxl, which costs less than US$400, has a memory of 512kb and can be expanded to 2mb, which is overcome. This difficulty.

That's it, those who don't know the truth. Users who are obsessed with graphical user interface functions really bought it, and Apple has improved the mabsp; strictly speaking, Apple’s modified Lisa computer with a backlog and branded it with a new model of mac computer to users The practice of peddling is a kind of commercial fraud. After all, no matter how close the interface given by the mac simulator is to the mac, its kernel is actually a Lisa computer that cannot be sold.

Regarding this point, there were also disagreements within Apple, but due to the company's righteousness, the surface calm was quickly restored.

However, there is one thing. Lisa computers are packaged into macxl and re-launched on the market. It seems to be a successful rescue. However, one fact cannot be changed. That is, Apple is selling Lisa computers at a loss. The more you sell, the more you can’t thank you. The fundamental solution to the problem is to develop a real mabsp with strong enough performance; otherwise, Apple, which has overdrawn its credit and expects its graphical user interface, will be abandoned by users. `In addition to mac, there are other excellent personal computers to choose from.

Tang Huan has nothing to say about the new chaos of Apple at this stage, and he has done his best to ask himself.

Tang Huan's first pot of gold, the spreadsheet software cgrid, was realized with the help of the app1eii platform. Later, the word processing software ordeasy, database ebase, and hardware products such as display enhancement cards, printing enhancement cards, etc., were clothed one after another, and even the whole set of prices were added together, past the app1eii platform itself.

It is not difficult to see how app1eii played a role in Tang Huan's original capital accumulation.

With the deepening of the cooperation between the two parties, it has reached the point of mutual shareholding, which allowed Tang Huan to catch the ride of Apple's listing. Less than two years after entering the IT field, he won the title of billionaire and wealth. Ranked third, even after Watts, one of the founders of Apple.

The aura of billionaires brings convenience in terms of social status, bank loans, financial credit, etc., it is really difficult to accurately calculate.

Tang Huan started his own business from a poor student to a rapid rise. Becoming rich in the United States, the whole process is fair and innocent. Not only is it regarded as a struggle idol more than countless people, but it also attracts the research of many experts. Even without authorization, biographies of all kinds are still flying in the sky.

In all the descriptions, they all agree that among Tang Huan's success factors, the trick of using chickens to lay eggs is perfect. And Apple is the chicken in the process of Tang Huan's accumulation of wealth.

With little use value left and conflicts from the board of directors, Tang Huan quickly moved away from Apple. But through Markkula, Jobs, Woz's shares in Zheru, and long-term support for the app1eii platform exhibition, he still paid back to Apple.

This is also a major basis for external comments on Tang Huan's kindness. You know, Wall Street, in the cycle of raising pigs and killing pigs, ironically has a good feeling for those with good morals. When Apple drove away its entrepreneurial hero, Michael Scott, the first executive officer, he was criticized by him for sharing weal and woe, but not wealth.

But in the eyes of some key members of Apple's board of directors, especially Steve Jobs, who was obsessed with owning products created by himself like Woz, Tang Huan's support for the app1eii platform. It is to change its pedigree step by step, and eventually make it a member of the Fangyuan Computer Standards Alliance, which will harm Apple's long-term interests, so they put the company's focus on the mac and Lisa computer projects.

Since Apple insists on this idea, Tang Huan can't put on a cold buttocks with a hot face, after all, the other party's use value is really low.

After listening to John Chambers and others talking about the current situation of Apple caused by Woz’s visit, Tang Huan nodded and asked: “The 32-bit architecture technology of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers will be implemented by partners. How's it going?"

"There are no unexpected accidents in control." John Chambers handed over a document, "The most recent highlight is the fall opening conference. And later on the DEX will publish several models that meet the technical specifications of 32-bit personal computers, but they can be used in The function expansion cards used on the current 16-bit third-generation Fangyuan personal computers. These two activities can be regarded as the prelude to the official debut of the 32-bit personal computers. So everyone hopes that you can attend, so as to point out a clearer direction for the future. "

Original time and space. In the personal computer industry structure dominated by ibm-pc, the leader ibm has no interest in the development of 32-bit personal computers. When Intel’s 32-bit architecture microprocessor inte18o386, which was desperately turning to the cpu business, was the first to launch the first 32-bit personal computer—paqdeskpro386, which began to have the opportunity to dominate the market.

However, Compaq finally started with a copycat ibm-pc, and its technical goal is to be compatible with ibm-pc. Original things are limited. For example, the system bus used by paqdeskpro386 is still the old-fashioned ibm-pc/at bus. Compaq does not yet have the ability to carry out the overall layout of the Big Blue.

As the pie of personal computers grows bigger and bigger, more and more participants, and ibm loses its monopoly position, all kinds of new technologies are gradually being joined by various manufacturers or industry alliances.

After entering the era of Pentium computers, the technical standards of personal computers began to be determined by organizations such as ieee, rather than a certain manufacturer.

At this stage, Tang Huan naturally has the absolute right to speak in the Fangyuan computer standard kingdom built by himself, and the new generation of 32-bit personal computers are technically many times better than paqdeskpro386, although it is impossible to achieve it in one step. , But will leave the best space for gradual improvement, including system buses, expansion boards, operating systems... and even the top-level applications responsible for driving consumer demand will have an overall layout.

Although this is far from a complete effort, it is also a process of integrating several years of technology exhibition into a product research process, and the complexity can be imagined.

In the early media briefing conducted by Fangyuan Computer Company for the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers, the overall design goals were disclosed to attract capital markets, users and partners.

IBM, which has valuable research experience in mainframe system/36o, is not optimistic about Fangyuan Computer’s ambitious 32-bit personal computer plan. He believes that Tang Huan’s companies are too young to have the matching ability to successfully manage such a scale. project.

The actual situation also seems to be just as ibm expected, the media from time to time reported the stumbling in the execution of the 32-bit personal computer plan, which made the Big Blue's prediction more targeted.

In fact, the media has always been good at exaggerating and exaggerating. How could the research project led by Tang Huan really become a headless fly, but this kind of attention is also a kind of momentum, and it can also make the old rival ibm fall into confusion and underestimate the enemy. Anxious to talk and argue, but to clarify with a rational academic attitude.

Tang Huan first presented a paper titled "No Silver Bullet" to show that he had studied the classic essay "The Myth of Human Moon" by Fred Brooks, the father of the ibmsystem/36o system, and the complexity of large-scale project management. He has a clear understanding and sufficient preparation; then he introduced a long-term management system called capabi1itymaturitymode1-the capability maturity model or cmm~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to prove that he possesses large-scale project control. ability.

The reason why Tang Huan patiently discusses project management with a rigorous academic approach is not only to cheer for the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers, but also to show to military customers such as the US Department of Defense that he is mature and stable in technical research capabilities.

Judging from the results of feedback from all aspects, this coping strategy is very successful, at least it can make the opponent shut up and bring the partner out of confusion.

After reading the document, Tang Huan smiled and said: "The driving effect of video games on personal computers has become more and more obvious, and it seems to have become a hot spot for this autumn conference. I participated in this session, which is considered to be for "Three Kingdoms". The cloth is warmed up."

Seeing Tang Huan say this, Charles Simeone complained: "Tang, you are too partial to ea."

In the laughter of everyone, Tang Huan recommended: "If you have free time, you might as well play this game, I believe the experience will be very fresh." (To be continued.)

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