Rebirth of the Tech Madman

"The coexistence of studios and freedos provides a very friendly platform transition mechanism. But this also brings up a question whether studios belong to the real operating system, rather than an upgraded and enhanced version of the shell in freedos."

"It needs to be pointed out that although philosophers did not publicize, the freedos in the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer has indeed been upgraded to the 32-bit version. This should be regarded as the most powerful DOS operating system in the industry at present, and it will naturally follow it. Many new features are coming. However, our focus is on studios with graphical user interfaces. After all, it is what ordinary users are most interested in."

"The startup screen of studios is a simple animation. On the black screen background, a book composed of green lines is slowly flipping, and the left and right sides are bottom-up moving progress bars, which are like candles. The moral of the fire of civilization is in it."

"It can be seen that Zheru's design team has spent a lot of attention on details, which is reflected in many subsequent user experiences."

"Actually, the startup screen of studios is by no means as simple as good-looking and logos. During this process, the studios kernel is testing whether the hardware, including cpu, memory, graphics card, etc., meets the operating standards of the operating system. If it fails, then It means that this computer cannot provide the basic conditions required for the operation of studios."

"When the studios are launched successfully, the interface presented to us is called workspace, just like a lot of furniture in a room, there are many things called icons for us to interact with."

"The long bar at the bottom of the screen resembling a dining table is called the taskbar. Studios is also a multitasking operating system. And this taskbar is used to help manage multiple tasks in operation."

"The element called'start' on the far left of the taskbar is actually a menu that we are very familiar with. As the name suggests, users can find all the interfaces for controlling computer resources here. For example, file explorer-graphically managed Tools for all files on the computer."

"The start menu is similar to a large locker, ≠∨≠∨, which categorizes all the interfaces that control computer resources; the icons on the workspace represent a more concise and convenient way of operation. For example, double-click The "My Computer" icon will directly call up the file explorer."

"Different from the one-button mouse used by Apple’s personal computer product mac, Fangyuan’s personal computer has always adopted a two-button mouse. Therefore, it has more operating combinations on the graphical user interface of the studios, which is not as simple and clear as the mac. Test the savvy of users."

"For example, click the left mouse button to select the target, double-click the left mouse button to run the selected target, and click the right mouse button to call the operation menu associated with the target. Double-click the right mouse button, haha..., it seems to have no effect."

"Zheru collectively referred to this set of mouse operation methods as mouse gestures. It is said that in addition to the pre-defined mouse gestures built in the system, users can also define their own custom mouse gestures. In this way, the role of the mouse is obviously improved. One big step is that users may not be able to fully remember these dazzling mouse gestures. Instead, they lose the original intention of intuitive and simple graphical user interface operations."

"Of course, if the user stays patient. Explore the mystery of mouse gestures, you can still find many interesting and practical functions. I accidentally discovered one such function, and now share it with everyone."

"There is a document-like icon on the workspace called the Software License Agreement. Double-click it, studios will automatically call the built-in text processing program to open the system, and its content is a lot of copyright-related declarations. Don’t bother, we press at the same time With the left and right mouse buttons, this document will automatically turn pages. Isn’t it convenient?"

"The mouse function we really want to introduce grandly is drag anddrop-drag and drop, that is, the mouse drag and drop function. Also take the software license agreement document as an example. Select it, and don't release the left mouse button, to the trash can icon Drag. We see that the icon of the software license agreement document moves with the drag of the icon and reaches the position of the trash can icon. Release the left mouse button and put down the icon of the software license agreement document, and it appears. An animation of a progress bar. The file was thrown into the trash can, that is, deleted. This operation is a process of executing the mouse drag and drop function. Is it simple, vivid and interesting?"

"However, this deletion is not a real deletion. Just as the trash can in reality has to go through the dumping process, we can completely delete the files in the trash can by clearing the trash can. Now, studios provides us with a Regret the opportunity of the medicine, open the trash can, select the deleted software license agreement, and perform the restore operation. This document is back on the workspace."

"Let’s continue the demonstration. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and open the file explorer. You can find this floppy disk easily. Drag and drop the software license agreement that you have just restored. This is a file copy process. From then on In the future, when users perform this routine operation, they will no longer have to be as troublesome as typing a line of commands in the DOS environment."

"If the file copy time is too long, we can find a card game in the start menu and wait while playing."

"Behind this process is the multitasking nature of studios, while Apple's mac does not provide this feature."

"Running multiple tasks at the same time will naturally cause huge pressure on memory. However, we don’t need to worry too much, because another difference between studios and mac is that it is a hard disk-based operating system that can be used on hard disks. Space virtual memory, so that the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computers can run programs that exceed the actual memory capacity support."

"I have been struggling for 36 hours without sleep. Naturally, I don’t just dedicate these things to everyone. Personal computers have to play a real role to make sense. To this end, we tested the mainstream applications on the market. To evaluate four On behalf of Fangyuan personal computer, the compatibility of this new platform."

"As a result, we found that the compatibility of 32-bit freedos with older versions of applications is in line with expectations, and the performance has indeed improved a lot."

"In other words, even if third-party software developers do not have time to launch new products in the studios environment. Users can still benefit from the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computers."

"Actually, as the world's largest software company, how could Zheru let the newly released graphical user interface operating system studios stand alone? His own office software spreadsheet cgrid, word processing wordeasy, database ebase, powerpresenter, etc. Other heavyweight products have launched new versions that support studios, and they have performed quite well."

"The progress of third-party software developers is behind, mainly because they still have not adapted to the new programming architecture of studios. However, some manufacturers have launched a beta version, such as another equally excellent word processing software wordperfect. It is only in the testing process. I don't know if there is a problem with the floppy disk. When operating the floppy disk file, a blue screen of death occurred."

"We have reported this situation to Fangyuan Computer Company and wordperfect, hoping to find the cause of the blue screen of death."

"In addition, this evaluation is mainly from the perspective of users. The studios also include new technologies such as opentype fonts, tcp/ip network, hardware acceleration OpenGL, objectlinkingandembedding—object linking and embedding, which is ole, because they are mainly for professional fields. . I won’t make too many statements."

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"Byte" magazine's so-called 36-hour sleepless work, once launched. Sure enough, it was a big success. It was printed several times in the current period and still in short supply, and the content in the evaluation has been quoted by many third-party media, which can be said to be infinite.

"Pcmagazine", which was one step behind, felt angry when seeing this scene. Just follow the trend and launched a 72-hour cohesive evaluation report.

Regarding this phenomenon, many media colleagues have exclaimed, is the working environment of magazines in the IT field so difficult? I don't know if everyone is pretending to be confused and making fun.

"Pcmagazine"'s expertise in evaluation reports is in the field of hardware, so it has exhausted all efforts to obtain a license from Fangyuan Computer Company to open the main box of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype. This makes its evaluation report lose its timeliness advantage, but its characteristics are very strong.

The main hardware configuration of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype includes: cpu is 25mhz mc68020, memory capacity is 1mb, and 40mb hard disk, 2d accelerated graphics card, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, 10mb transmission speed Ethernet card and so on.

"Pcmagazine" showed an exclusive unboxing photo in the report, and added more memory on this basis, replaced a more powerful 2d accelerated graphics card, in order to challenge the performance limit of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer.

Finally, "pcmagazine" came to a conclusion with excitement that some software that could only be run on Fangyuan workstations may have a chance of performance on four generations of Fangyuan personal computers.

This is good news, which means that the user base of software developers is expected to expand.

In addition, "pcmagazine" connected various expansion cards to the slot of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype, which finally broke the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer. Many drivers have defects. , Causing the blue screen of death phenomenon to appear frequently.

Fortunately, the report style of "pcmagazine" this time is not like the last time when the third generation of Fangyuan personal computer quality problems were discovered. "Look at it, everyone, I found the big secret" for fear that the world will not be chaotic. Instead, it actively feedbacks to Fangyuan. And analyze it wisely in the evaluation report.

At the end of the article, "pcmagazine" started a joke about studios, a new graphical user interface operating system, thinking that its name is not only standarduios—a variant of the standard user interface operating system, but also the meaning of studies—including manufacturers, developers, All groups, including users, need a learning process.

Although the "pcmagazine" report lags behind, but with more exclusive results, it has also achieved gratifying sales results.

All in all, the participating media have made a lot of money on the theme of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers, and then created the momentum of "the new computer era is coming".

However, the experience of four generations of Fangyuan’s personal computers being badly played by the review media has also given people with ulterior motives an opportunity for satire, so that the term "blue screen of death" became popular.

No matter how noisy the various sounds are, the competitors of Fangyuan PC feel the pressure created by "the new computer age is coming."

ibm is in a bit embarrassing situation, because it has stocked a considerable amount of intel80286 before, and although the second supplier often lags behind more than a year in the research and development progress, once a compatible product is launched, the performance will exceed these Intel original factories. Production of cpu, UU reading www. uukanshu.com in turn makes the assisted ibm-pc compatible machine faster than the ibm-pc genuine machine.

As for the new personal computer platform ps/2 being developed by ibm, because there is a 32-bit mainframe that has to be maintained on its head, it can only continue to revolve around the 16-bit platform represented by the large backlog of intel80286. In front of Dai Fangyuan's personal computer, he could hardly look up.

But ibm has to endure, and it must be inside. It needs to re-control the chaotic ibm-pc standard camp through a redesigned personal computer architecture.

As for Apple’s mac, it’s even harder to mention. The top executives are busy fighting inwardly.

After Jobs tried to launch a coup but was informed and failed, John Sculley received the support of the board of directors and began to reorganize the company, placing his former good friends in the positions of chairman and global technical architect. However, the power structure diagram of the company is solitary and not connected by lines representing power.

The founder of Apple is actually out of the game, and even completely reduced to a marginal role in the IT tide led by Tang Huan. (To be continued.) uw