Rebirth of the Tech Madman

The media is joking, but industry experts like Tang Huan will not take it seriously-no one can ignore the technical strength of ibm in the high-end field, not to mention this time the Blue Giant changed its procrastination style, and the product line layout was thoughtful.

The rs/6000 with power microprocessor is targeted at the server and workstation markets. The powerserver series and the powerstation series are introduced respectively, and expanded down to mobile computers and desktop computers, which are likely to counterattack the personal computer market.

As the most important core component in the computer hardware system, power, in addition to the conventional design of the current risc, also breaks a unique skill of the philosopher holder, that is, the register renaming and chaos that is of great significance to the parallel execution of the processor. Sequence execution technology.

This limited data flow architecture calculation method was successfully introduced to the microprocessor by Zheru for the first time. Don't look at competitors like mips, sparc, etc., taking advantage of the risc craze is also getting mixed up, but at such key nodes, you can only do nothing but expressions. But now, ibm's power is the first to break the monopoly of philosopher holders.

The power microprocessor, which ibm has high hopes for and is used as a life-saving straw, starts at 20mhz. Using rs/6000 as the cpu, the supported memory capacity is between 8mb and 128mb.

In terms of software, rs/6000 is also an "orange outfit", and products such as ibm's own operating system aix and relational database management system db2 are available for use.

In fact, only with these two platforms, rs/6000 is enough to start a new round of competition with Fangyuan Server and Fangyuan Workstation in the enterprise market.

In addition, ibm also put aside its figure and joined forces in the industry, trying to find more uses for the power architecture, not to mention, it soon hooked up with Apple.

After ousting Steve Jobs, Apple finally belonged to a properly operating company.

CEO John Sculley took over the marketing skills he had in Pepsi to make the product line clear.

After Jobs, Jean-Louis Gassy, ​​who took over the mac department, was eventually promoted to development director. During his tenure, he continued to cancel low-end products, while raising prices, and taking the high-end route, which was in line with John Scully's ideas.

In all fairness, in the first few years of their governance, Apple's performance was remarkable, which proved to the outside world the correctness of driving out the founder of Steve Jobs.

However, the computer is not Coke anyway. No matter how well the marketing is done, it still depends on the technical prowess.

In the past two years, sales of Apple products have therefore fallen sharply.

In this way, Jean-Louis Gassy was the first to be questioned and was forced to leave this year. Michael Spindler succeeded the position of development supervisor. Naturally, he started to reflect on Apple’s product development, and the first thing to do was that he needed one. A sufficiently powerful cpu.

Due to the long-term use of Motorola's mc68000 series microprocessors, Apple naturally hopes that the other party will provide solutions.

In the same level of competition for the latest generation of CPUs, Motorola's mc68040 outperforms Intel's intel80486, but heat generation is a problem that cannot be ignored, and the two sides can only be considered a tie.

Therefore, Apple hopes to use the industry's unanimously optimistic risc microprocessor to make its personal computer products worthy of the high-end route. However, Motorola's risc research and development result-mc88000, performed poorly, so that the disappointed Apple had to give up The idea of ​​adoption.

At this time, power turned out, and it happened that Apple found a solution, and then hit it off with ibm.

According to the cooperation statement between the two parties, ibm will derive a type of cpu suitable for personal computer hardware systems for Apple on the power architecture.

Tang Huan, who is at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation of the United States, couldn't help frowning after receiving this series of news-if ibm really seized the opportunity of the rigid demand for high-end products such as servers from the rise of the Internet, it might really be able to operate. Up.

When Tang Huan visited the National Science Foundation, his lobbying effect was not very effective. Gein's funding came from Congress, and the approval of the other party would naturally be approved for commercial use. There would be more procedures to go through.

If this is the case, let it go first. Originally, this trip was just a try. Tang Huan was still very patient, so he turned to focus on the upcoming speed-up plan with a target of 45mbps.

Gein, there will be a considerable number of new network nodes involved. For Fangyuan server, it is a very rare and valuable big purchase contract.

Unexpectedly, ibm just released its rhetoric that it will introduce power into the supercomputer to defeat the rb, which has just won the world's fastest computer crown, and bring rs/6000 to grab the order.

This time the richest man An Sheng finally got angry. Is this taking advantage of me to leave the mainstream society for a long time, and my subordinates are more than enough to open up, so they bully the door?

You know, the number of Internet visits has doubled in less than 7 months, which is why the Internet speed is increased every few years.

Although it promotes its openness and inclusiveness, it is impossible for the solutions adopted by each upgrade to have an impact on the next.

In other words, if you upgrade your orders one at a time, the more technical stickiness you will create, the greater your choice inertia, and your chances of winning new orders will also increase.

For these reasons, how could Tang Huan tolerate ibm coming to grab food?

The previous order to upgrade the Wall Street financial system was lost if it was lost. The culprit of "Black Monday" is not so easy to recite, but there is no similar aversion to suspicion.

When he came to New York and talked to the media about ibm's launch of power and rs/6000 and other new products, Tang Huan said unceremoniously: "In addition to out-of-order execution, holder has many other exclusive technologies. Let competitors out of reach."

"In addition, Zheru has set his sights on the 64-bit architecture, which is the same as the operating frequency, process and other hard indicators, and the performance improvement brought by it is not a trivial tinkering that can catch up."

After smashing the media with the future, Tang Huanshi continued to express his position on the current situation: "Fangyuan Computer will regain the title of the world's fastest computer. I believe that within two years, it will surpass rbnec exponentially. sx-3/44r has 23.2gflops."

The reporters quickly recorded that they didn't realize that the richest man who talked about him was no longer the chairman of the board of directors of Fangyuan Computer Company. It seemed a bit wrong to continue to speak as a spokesperson.

Feeling a faux pas, Tang Huan quickly changed the subject and said: "At this stage, the completeness of the ecosystem on the Fangyuan computer platform is the best in the industry."

"Take the enterprise market for emerging Web applications, the server operating system has ebase, the database has ebase, the www server has zis, the browser has polestar, the development tools have the most powerful zeroe_cAAAA_buider, and the latest rapid application development tools. It stands for delphi...and so on, and so on. What other platform can provide such a perfect complete solution?"

After the richest man’s words were circulated by the media, it was like being thrown into a stone in a calm pond, which immediately caused a sensation in the industry. Each company compared it to determine the location of its own products.

As for the operating system, the high-end Unix is ​​constantly fighting against each other. The old Unix has a wider range of applications, but because of the scattered authorization, it can’t suppress the fistful phenomenon; the desktop continues to maintain a clear distinction-Fangyuan personal computer, ibm's ps /2 and ibm-pc compatible machine, Apple's mac, the well water does not violate the river water.

However, Microsoft has begun to join in the fun announcement that it will choose the opportunity to officially release windows3.0 in May this year, and vowed to guarantee that this version has a satisfactory and substantial improvement compared with previous functions.

Now, the ibm-pc compatible machine camp is happy. They have received internal information and have determined that Windows 3.0 can help their products to be on par with Apple's Mac on the graphical user interface.

But the scandals that continue to appear on the ibm-pc compatible platform are also extremely ironic.

Once the software troika-database, the market was chaotic, and the only king dbase made a lot of money, which attracted the attention of many home workshop-style companies.

Everyone focused on this piece of fat, so they launched cloned products, such as foxbase, arago, and so on.

In addition to being 100% compatible with the original version of dbase, these copycat database systems also have a unique skill, that is, the ability to compile database programs written by dbase into executable files, which greatly improves performance.

In the process of adding new features such as these to dbase and launching a counterattack, Ashton-Tate has some success, but it cannot withstand the continuous loss of market share. In the end, it can only hope that the law will be the most active. Foxbase dragged to court.

According to common sense, Ashton-Tate will definitely make a decision. But what is surprising is that in January this year, the California court’s ruling not only dismissed the lawsuit, but also declared the copyright of dbase invalid, because it was modeled on Jet Power Lab’s jpdis, and Ashton-Tate was in When registering dbase with the National Copyright Office, this fact was deliberately concealed.

In other words, not only did Ashton-Tate fail to sue foxbase, it was a curse, but it also caused a fate that "any company can imitate dbase products".

According to reliable sources, Microsoft has taken a fancy to foxbase, which has finally been whitewashed, and is preparing to take it under its control, so as to improve the lack of its own software products in the database layout.

Fortunately, in the relational database management system market, the battles are decent, ebase, db2, oracle, informix, sybase and other products have their own characteristics and are good at winning.

Programming development tools originally belonged to their own ways. Zheru and Microsoft each focused on the Fangyuan computer and ibm-pc compatible computer system, but when borland launched borland_cAAAA this year, it broke the barrier and supported the simultaneous development of applications running on two platforms. , Even as simple as just a single line of macro command to notify the compiler ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In addition, while Microsoft is struggling with foxbase, Borland also decided to bargain to buy dbase, which quickly slipped into the abyss because of losing the copyright lawsuit. To build the software country in your mind.

As for browsers and web servers, although many R&D teams have been attracted, including the recently joined ibm, only Zheru can come up with mature and stable solutions to put them into actual operation for the time being. But because of this, the competition has become more intense, so that the outcome is unpredictable.

In short, the companies that had been in constant friction because of commercial interests, after being attracted by the World Wide Web, became more and more commonplace in wiping out guns and fighting each other. The situation of chaos has allowed all kinds of news to be dug up all year round. All of the it media feel dazzled and at a loss.

As the pioneer of the World Wide Web, Philosopher has naturally become the center of the competition whirlpool. Its products will inevitably be sliced ​​and studied by peers to transform them into their own intellectual property rights. The pressure they feel can be imagined.

Fortunately, Zheru has a big boss who has returned, and his response is to take the initiative-attack is the best defense, and it once again released a new product.

The application field involved this time is the e-mail that has been developed and matured on the Internet for a long time, and then the most widely used, people are increasingly inseparable from the e-mail.

With the opening of the World Wide Web, Zheru’s email management system zeroe_exchange_server_1990 and the supporting mail client zeroe_smartmail possess the most powerful functions so far. The most obvious evidence is the support of related protocols such as smtp and pop3. Full support.