However, in the subsequent K32 follow-up product development, this technology has been resolutely added for a long time, after all, the investment is not large and the effect is very obvious.

Now that I see that Intel has a similar plan, I can't help but be glad for my persistence at that time, otherwise once 386 is successful, I will have to be busy for a while.

However, what has been puzzling for a long time is that cache consumes high transistor resources as high-speed memory, and Intel's 386 itself is already very large, and if you add cache, the chip area is ...... Unthinkable.

In fact, not only has it been puzzled for a long time, but Intel SUNTAC's R&D team is also debating whether to integrate this behemoth internally.

Subordinates can scold their faces, but as the chief designer, Grove can't do that, as a decision-maker, he must consider all possible disadvantages in a holistic manner, rather than taking risks for the sake of 'sexual' ability, after all, the development of 386 has dragged on for too long.

Grove thought to himself, there is no doubt that the benefits of adding cache to 'sex' performance are obvious, but because cache uses static memory, it not only consumes more transistors, but also has a larger volume, 386 now has an unprecedented 270,000 integrated transistors, if you add cache, it is extremely disadvantageous to the cost.

After some consideration, Grove could only give up this idea of "seduction", retreat to the second, separate the cache, and make a separate chip, which is mounted on the motherboard to work with the processor, which is better than nothing. This trick was later applied on a large scale, and the previous 386 motherboards had this thing, which came with a cache chip, but of course I can't see it now.

In the same way, there is also a floating-point arithmetic support component, and Grove draws a gourd, and can only develop a separate floating-point coprocessor to support high-precision science and technology when the process does not meet the requirements.

In the past, Intel's processors would be paired with math coprocessors, such as 8087, 80287, etc. It's just quite embarrassing that the new 386 plan does not include this project, and Grove can only transfer all the floating point unit data from the 432 processor team that was put into the cold palace, and the modification is compatible with the 386 instruction set, which can be regarded as a 'woman' marrying a second husband.

Intel's team is like a train, breaking through all obstacles after starting, overcoming one problem after another, and finally approaching success, and it is expected to be able to come up with a finished product in July and August.

Microsoft, on the other hand, kept a low profile, spending the entire '84 years in Seattle working hard with his young people in Seattle, except for occasional public appearances to build a campaign for his indos bubble.

Due to the difficult times, Bill has taken on a lot of work, and he still has the secret research and development of the giant indos in his hands, and the developers can be regarded as stretched.

As a result, Bill had to hire a large number of programmers to cope with the increasing number of tasks, but Bill always insisted on hiring only the brightest people he had found, such as those who had just graduated from prestigious college students, which he liked the most.

In a building on the outskirts of Seattle, you're home to arguably the world's most dynamic programmers, all in their twenties, attracted by Bill's promise of stock options.

Bill is a big believer in these talents, and tries to meet them no matter what the conditions are. Based on these and Bill's personal charisma, these guys also had a hard time on Bill, and were even later ridiculed as Microsoft slaves.

Of course, it's impossible to get these guys in charge of big projects, it's going to make a mess. They have only one task, which is to improve the program and sell it under the leadership of the software director.

The madmen in Seattle are divided into several 'gates', the largest of which is the graphics system development team, after all, Bill has bet on this treasure and intends to turn over.

The project manager of the window plan has long been replaced, and Kangsen, a senior program master, has been transferred in to strengthen this aspect and be responsible for overcoming various difficulties in the program.

Bill likewise leads by example and doesn't have any time for entertainment every day.

Bill knows very well that there is not much time left for them to bounce tickets again and again, and if they can't come up with a program to see in July, those developers will definitely give up.

So Bill started his breakfast reviewing the program and thinking about the overall architecture of the software, took a break at noon, and spent the afternoon writing code with the programmers until late at night.

This life lasted for most of the year and reached its peak in early 85.

"Ballmer! Ballmer!" Bill, who had finished breakfast early, drank strong coffee, found a mistake in the audit process, and immediately became angry, slammed the table and shouted at the secretary.

The boring life and the pressure of development have made Bill more and more irritable and irritable during the year, and his subordinates are simply afraid of him.

"Mr. Ballmer is eating. The secretary whispered that she did not dare to anger the lion.

"Call him over at once. Bill roared.

"What's the matter?" Ballmer, with red eyes and a slice of bread in his mouth, hurried over, still wiping his hands with a handkerchief, and there were traces of a drink on his 'chest', as if he had spilled something.

"You can still eat!" Bill stopped when he saw that he was angry, pointing at Ballmer's nose and spitting, "Don't look at us as buddies, I warn you, you can't 'deliver' the goods before the end of the year, you all roll up the covers for me and leave!

The disk was thrown at Ballmer, who grabbed it in a panic and walked back to the lab in frustration.

Ballmer had to curse VS Company and Long, if it weren't for this guy 'plugging' a lever, how could Microsoft become what it is now.

How noble and elegant Microsoft was in the past, Ballmer thought in a trance, thinking that a few brothers started a business from scratch back then, and they made millions of dollars just by flickering, and they traveled all over the West Coast, I don't know how many girls they soaked, how high-spirited.

It's like being overwhelmed by the pressure of competition now, working like a donkey, and being called around like a dog by the boss, if it weren't for the sake of the dollar, it would have been picked a long time ago.

But people have to bow their heads under the eaves, Ballmer sighed helplessly, walked into the office, and woke up the programmers who had just fallen asleep one by one.

Facing the sleepy eyes of the young men, Ballmer cheered up: "Brothers, work harder, Bill is crazy again, it must be completed before the snow, otherwise we can only go home." ”

The office was filled with grief and complaints. But no one resisted, after all, in addition to being crazy at work, Bill's big 'door' is generally right to the right thing and not the right person, and the treatment is also good, and there is no boss in Silicon Valley who can give them such a high salary as a recent graduate, as well as pre-emptive options.

Compared with the generous conditions of the window group, the other departments seem to be raised by the mother, and the treatment is a little worse. This is society, there is no profit without results, and there is no bonus either, which is very simple, and this is also fair.

This is also the market'forced', after all, the software on the PC platform is almost divided by each other, VS accounts for the majority, other companies are divided into one side, and Microsoft can only rely on Apple's contract to make a profit on the Mac system, which is still the result of competing with others, because he is not the only one who holds the Apple contract.

It is also a small company, with only two or three people, and produced a spreadsheet integration software that stands out from many competitors, which not only makes the mutiplan that Microsoft has worked so hard to improve "Silmoni" a failure, that is, the lotus "flower".

As soon as the lotus 'flower' comes out, who competes. In the official history, Lotus 'Flower' Company was originally a leader in this industry, monopolizing the two major platforms of Apple and PC for ten years, killing countless enemies, and becoming the second largest software company in the United States.

However, at the wrong time of the lotus 'flower' in this time and space, its author Karp's first shot did not fire, and he was robbed of the first prize by the long-term videoform, so he had to consider himself unlucky. Later, the PC became popular, and Cap Taoguang developed a spreadsheet, database, chart three-in-one software Lotus1-2-3 for two years to continue to compete in the Central Plains, who knew that it was a failure, and was preempted by the long-term VS-office, and it struggled for a year on the PC platform and only achieved a market share of 6%, while VS-Office achieved 80% of the market on the PC platform, overwhelming the gap of 'sex'.

However, Feng Shui takes turns, Apple's Mac was born, and it is very fortunate that Jobs loves and hates clearly, because he was played by VS, he did not sign any software contract with VS company at all, which gave other software companies a convenience, and the MAC platform became an arena for major frustrated software vendors.

Microsoft and Lotus 'Flower' entered this field almost at the same time, and the results achieved were roughly the same, accounting for more than 40 percent each, which can be regarded as a tie.

Karp is naturally very glad that he has nothing, and this result has made him very satisfied. However, for Bill's big 'door', this is simply a disaster, he has invested a lot in spreadsheet software, but he has not gotten satisfactory results, so he naturally will not give his subordinates a good look.

As a result, there are almost only three or two kittens left in Microsoft's spreadsheet follow-up workforce, and it seems that Bill is ready to leave it to its own devices.

Poor Claude was now in this unawkward situation, on the one hand he was immersed in a state of almost madness, working frantically to produce a veritable result, after all, the name of the project was EXECL - Transcendence, and on the other hand he was anxious about Beel's growing neglect of EXECL, and he was very worried that he would not be able to finish it well.

As a result, he lives in contradictions, and his office has almost become a paradise. Claude can bury himself in the pile of materials all day long, or he can face the screen all day and all night without moving, in his opinion, it is not others but himself who must surpass.

Claude's job was the hardest, he was responsible for all the internal programming of EXECL, he was the only one, while the other two assistants were responsible for the development of the software interface.

Due to lack of manpower, EXECL, which was originally intended to be released at the end of '84, was dragged to '85, which annoyed Claude.

It's just that there are many good things, and at this critical moment, Bill made another decision that made Claude almost go crazy - to suspend the development of EXECL and instead tackle the window plan.

"Hat?" Claude couldn't believe his ears, "what did you say?"

"See for yourself!" The person who came to inform him was also not angry, and the swear words of this guy in front of him made him angry, so he threw down the notice and left.

Claude read the notice three times, and finally determined the fact that it was like a stool.

Pushing the gold mountain to pour the 'jade' pillar, Claude sat on the chair, a little dazed, and then angrily tore the notice to pieces, kicked open the big 'door', and rushed to Bill's office.

"Dear Doug, is there anything wrong with you?" Bill looked at Claude with unkempt hair and an angry face in shock, and stayed for a long time before he came up with such a sentence.

"Bill!" Facing Bill, Claude suddenly felt that his stomach full of resentment had nowhere to vent, "You, you simply made a mess of things. I won't talk about 'pumping' everyone from me, but why did you stop EXECl? I'm working day and night just to defeat that damn office one day, and you're going to ruin our dreams!"

Bill stood up and poured Claude a glass of brandy.

"Don't get excited, Doug!" Bill slowly advised him, "Spreadsheets have achieved enough results on mac, we are not yet mature, don't you think the 'operation' system on the PC is very ugly now?" I want to make the PC an interface like mac, as long as it becomes the first, I think the sales will be very good, compared to the EXECL on the mac......"

"That's enough!" Claude became angrier and angrier, and slammed his glass impulsively, "no matter what you think, I will never accept this sudden and inexplicable decision, it is so stupid, I ask you to retract this rash decision immediately!"

Bill saw that Claude was so faceless, and his face turned cold: "Mr. Doug, let me remind you, you have to understand who you are talking to, this is not your home, you can't go wild! So, please go out now!"

After the conflict, Claude gradually calmed down and silently returned to his unattended office.

The huge gap made his mood calm for a long time, and after thinking about it, Claude wrote a resignation letter, and handed it to Bill early the next morning.

Bill also deeply regretted yesterday's rough attitude, after all, Claude was a big general who he picked up and was a good hand in the field of spreadsheets, so he persuaded him softly for a long time, hoping that Claude would stay.

It's just that Claude is young and vigorous, and he can't save face, no matter how much Bill keeps him, he insists on leaving, which is a bit unforgiving.

At this point, Bill had no choice but to accept the resignation and ignore the reckless guy.

~~~~~~~~~~~ was criticized, BM did not release a new mainframe computer system since '80, and only in '85 or '86 did it hastily launch a Sierra, but it was expensive and had little functionality, so it failed. Later, after the replacement of PCs, IBM collapsed, with tens of billions of debts, and was almost finished. It was Guo Shi who turned the tide and came back to life, until 1995, when he had the image of the king again, and 'spent' 3.5 billion to acquire the lotus 'flower'.

In addition, the thieves said that the Great Leap Forward was not something to do, and I didn't plan to do it, but to say that the cache had to be built into the 486 in '89 is a bit of a thing, and almost all the advanced technology of the x86 architecture is nourished by the RISC system. Built-in caches have long existed, such as ARM2, hp's PA-7100 and so on.

What Tiantian Bai 'Yu' Jing said is that no company can monopolize all projects, even YY, there will always be a stronger existence, hehe.

In addition, I have never despised foreign companies, maybe not in awe, but nothing more.

In addition, all the data in this book has a source, and it is not a "messy" cover of the old fish.

If there are any questions in the future, the old fish will answer.