If the PC hardware skeleton, then the operating system is the soul, and the application software is the flesh and blood, which together form a complete finished product. Hardware can be diverse and incompatible with each other, while the operating system is the platform for application software, supporting the realization of various software functions.

Without an operating system, a computer is nothing more than a pile of scrap metal that does not generate any value.

There is a division method in the chemical industry, that is, basic chemical industry and other chemical industries, all chemical products are derived from several basic chemical raw materials, so basic chemical industry can be said to determine the development of downstream products.

The computer processing chip and operating system are equivalent to the foundation of the computer industry, located in the upstream of all information industries, as long as these two fields are mastered, it is possible to attack and retreat, and the financial resources are stable, which determines the development direction of the industry.

Hardware such as CPU, that is the decisive sign, as long as the market chooses a CPU, it will naturally reject other products, because the cost of compatibility is high.

Intel Corporation occupied the market in the early days, and the scale was snowballing bigger and bigger, more and more relaxed, holding a compatible sword, wielding all directions, invincible.

As long as every time there is an upgrade, people have to choose X86 products, because only Intel's series can be compatible with the previous old products, and there is no need to pay extra to upgrade its software, which is the first-mover advantage.

All vendors who want to share this big pie must overcome this hurdle and either get Intel's license or find another way to develop different architectures and their competition.

It's just that the cost of these two methods is very high, first, let's not talk about whether Intel gives a license, even if you do, you have to contribute a part of the profits to Intel first. If your technology could threaten Intel itself, Intel could easily kill competitors by cutting off the licensing channel.

Therefore, except for AMD, a company that has signed a technology sharing agreement with Intel, almost no one has taken this path, and the former competitors have long been easily eliminated by Intel.

The second way is even more difficult, the market is full of software based on the x86 instruction set, and if you want to avoid Intel's patents, you have to be different from it, then the software has to be rewritten.

This price is not borne by ordinary people, and only those large companies with sufficient strength have the strength to develop their own software. But what big company can compete with the huge market, so even if the processor of different architecture is outstanding, it mostly ends in failure, and it is rare to succeed.

The operating system is similar, if not better. Microsoft, the monster, just holds the magic weapon of DOS, sacrifices it above its head, and is invincible first, and any attack on it can't make it hurt, but it will touch its own nose.

The operating system is the principle of all software, as long as you want to write software to make money, you must follow the rules set by the operating system, as long as you want to use the computer, you have to install the operating system.

These two principles determine the position of the owner of the operating system, that is, the leader. Microsoft is in this role, and it is with DOS that Microsoft has never had a financial crisis in its development, and licensing revenue alone supports all its costs in the business war.

Some people joke that Microsoft is short of money and will release a new version of DOS.

In a sense, it's true, the endless version upgrades bring Microsoft a huge amount of revenue.

And there are endless benefits to controlling an operating system, such as the ability to wipe out competitors. There is no one in the world who knows the system itself better than the writer, so Microsoft can launch any application if it wants to, and as long as the version is upgraded, the competitor's product will definitely have problems of one kind or another, and the insidious means are unknown.

It is precisely because of these indescribable benefits that Bill Gate attaches so much importance to the issue of the operating system, which is why Godson was furious after it appeared.

The boss was angry, and someone put out the fire for him, and the president Xue Jin was unfortunately saddled with this glorious task.

Xue Jin couldn't figure it out in the end, why it seemed that overnight, IBM changed its operating system, did he underestimate the wisdom of those blue fools?

Xue Jin was sweating profusely, and hurriedly flipped through the godson system analysis report submitted by his subordinates, both the analysis data and market feedback showed that this was definitely not a shoddy semi-finished product, on the contrary, godson was perfect and terrible.

Could it be that these IBM guys have been developing this system since early on, and they are using Microsoft products just to make PCs go on the market as soon as possible? Xue Jin couldn't help but have this terrible idea, if this is the case, Microsoft Corporation's small abacus may have been known to IBM long ago.

"This is a bullshit IBM product!" Bill Gate was furious, "IBM would have come up with this thing a long time ago, this is Apple's system! Damn, how did those blue-clad guys join forces with that madman Jobs, it's a big problem." ”

Apple's system also uses the basic language, which is Microsoft's flagship product, so Bill is very familiar with the system on the Apple machine, and when he sees godson, he feels very familiar, and after a little contact, he believes that this is the Tianxing system, but it is a different name.

Bill was a little panicked, because Microsoft's main income still came from the licensing of several programming language compilers, and the DOS system was the capital of his future fortune, and all the development plans revolved around this system.

The license to sell the dos developed by Microsoft to IBM is almost unlimited, that is, IBM can pre-install dos in the PC without paying, which is called PC-dos, which belongs to IBM.

Microsoft is also selling DOS, making a lot of money, but as soon as IBM turned to godson, this road was cut off almost instantly, and almost no customers wanted to use the MS-DOS bug to mess with the system, and even the compiler was unsalable, and people seemed to be more and more identified with the C language, but Microsoft did not have this product.

Bill took off his glasses and wiped them, calming down a bit: "Guys, can anyone tell me what the hell is going on and what we did wrong." ”

The Microsoft employees sitting around looked at each other and were speechless, except for Bill's best friend Ballmer who coughed dryly.

"Ball, do you have something to say?" asked Bill.

Ballmer cursed why his voice was so uncompetitive, and he dropped the chain at the critical moment, and had to face the boss's question: "This, after the incident, I went to IBM to inquire, and it seems that Apple was not involved in this matter." Well, that's right, Apple and IBM are competitors, how can that madman like Jobs cooperate with the old-fashioned IBM, he is the current market occupant, and it is impossible to make such a stupid move. ”

"What's going on?"

Ballmer took a sip of water and moistened his dry throat: "The Mac doesn't have an operating system, they use our basic environment. Later, a company launched a Z80 processor expansion card, which can be plugged into the Apple machine to use the CP/M system, and with the software on the CP/M, this made the Apple machine popular. It's just that I didn't know that the hacker wrote a viedoform spreadsheet software again, which has been very popular in recent years, and it comes with an operating system that is also popular, and those hackers call it skywalker, I think it has a lot to do with this godson, and it is likely that the author of skywalker sold this thing to IBM. ”

Bill Gate nodded: "Yes, I think so too, so do you know who this damn hacker is?"

Ballmer shook his head blankly, where did he know about these things, even if he was known for a long time, few people in the mainland knew about it.

"Then go and inquire, find that guy, whether it's spending money to buy, exchanging, or authorizing, in short, we must have this technology in our hands, go quickly." Bill shouted.

Ballmer was poignant, packed up his things and ran out of the conference room.

Bill pinched his eyebrows again and asked, "How's the progress of our DOS system adaptation?"

A program leader replied: "The analysis of the system structure is in progress, but our technical strength is too weak, and the DoS only has 4000 lines of assembly, and the function implementation is really a bit stretched." Compared to the Godson system, our DOS can only be regarded as a toy. ”

"Then improve it!" Bill interrupted the program director, who was a strong man and couldn't hear it the most, "Don't complain about the lack of manpower, I wrote basic with Paul not long ago?What is the function of godson, my DOS must be there, in short, I must follow up, even if it is plagiarism." ”

The program leader was a little embarrassed: "This is a bit difficult, the current version of DOS can only support the root directory, there is no file system, and it only supports 16k memory, and it can't read and write 320k high-density floppy disks, which are almost all our dead ends." It just so happens that Godson has a complete file system, supports more memory space, and stable performance, and we hardly find any bugs in the Godson system. ”

"Then write a file system, it's as simple as that, even a single-celled amoeba knows!" Bill felt like he was going to run away again, how could this supervisor be a director, speaking for the enemy everywhere.

"Forgive me for being incompetent!" This program director really can't stand it, he is also an elderly person, and he was sprayed wildly by a hairy boy in his twenties in public, and no one can stand it, "I don't have the technology and energy, and now the progress of the DOS project is still in the stage of patching bugs, and it is impossible to develop such a powerful system as godson in the short term, of course, there is still hope for you to go into battle in person, boss." ”

The program supervisor is out of the way, and he doesn't plan to do it anyway, he doesn't keep his master here, he has his own place to keep his master, he doesn't keep his master everywhere, and he is a self-employed person. Anyway, now that the microcomputer is in the pandemic, you can do any maintenance or something by yourself, and you can mix it decently, which is better than being angry now.

Bill's eyes were about to erupt with fire, and he pointed to the program director and said, "Okay, fulfill your wishes, you're fired, out!"

The program director packed up his things and walked out of the conference room without looking back.

Bill was panting for breath, sweating on his forehead, and he couldn't imagine that someone would contradict him.

Xue Jin and his colleagues were a little sad and silent.

Bill settled down and said, "Mr. Xue Jin, you are responsible for a counterattack plan and take charge of the marketing work. I'm going to be back in charge of technology development now, so I can't worry about that for now. ”

Xue Jin hurriedly replied: "No problem, my subordinates and I will draw up an effective plan as soon as possible." ”

Bill nodded: "It's up to Bauer's news, it's best to be able to fight without blood, but if you can't do it, you can only fight, Godson is really a fierce opponent." ”

Bill himself understands that if Ballmer doesn't get it, then there is little hope of turning over in the short term, and it will take time and effort to redevelop it on his own, so let's see if I can think of something else.