FC sales in China is limited, more is 'smuggling' machine, black King Kong came out, both the price and 'sex' are enough to threaten these original institutions, so the price of FC in China is plummeting, almost scraped away thousands of water, reached a more reasonable price - about 1600 yuan (84 years).

Southwest Electronics could only passively respond to the battle, and also lowered the price, maintaining a price difference of nearly 100 yuan, but the profit has dropped significantly. Fortunately, the sales of cassettes are extremely hot, not only dominating the domestic market, but also exported overseas, which makes Da Li overjoyed.

Even Taiwanese people know that there is a Southwest Electronics in the mainland, and the black King Kong game console produced by it can be perfectly compatible with FC, and the game cards produced are low in price and good quality, so they have come to order. As a result, exports have become another major source of profit for Da Li, and the company has developed rapidly when the domestic market is nearly saturated.

Not to mention Da Li, they are fighting for life and death in China, everything is in danger, and Chang Chang is facing the most direct threat to IBM.

It is undeniable that the Japanese made great contributions to the progress of science and technology in the 80s, but people have seen more of this phenomenon, that is, as long as the core technology is in the hands of Japanese manufacturers, the price of goods has always been high, and the price will never be reduced.

Perhaps it is the notorious devil that makes us remember him, in fact, this law applies to any capital, and IBM is no exception.

IBM is wise and foolish, opening up all the architecture of its PC, only retaining the BIOS system, and playing with the idea of controlling the market with standards, but people are not as good as heaven, Esrich did not expect that the BIOS could be bypassed, so he panicked.

With the lessons of the PC-XT, Esrich was much more cautious, and the new machine was released a long time late, just to be able to find a standard to control the market.

Luckily, it's not that hard to do, and that's the bus. In the PC-XT era, IBM designed an 8-bit data, 20-bit address XT bus, with a 62-pin expansion slot to match a variety of 'plug-in' cards.

It's just that when it comes to ATs, these things change. Esrich hated the existence of compatible machines and believed that an open architecture was the original sin, so he specially redesigned the bus to increase to 16 bits of data and 24 bits, and the expansion slot naturally rose to 98 feet.

Esrich suffered a big loss of opening up, and this time he will never repeat the mistakes of the past, and the evil AT bus standard is hidden, and it is not announced, ready to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

"What do you think?" asked Chang Chang, throwing the motherboard on the table.

Hans took the motherboard, observed it for a while, and then handed it to a few ghosts under him: "The processor has been changed, and it looks like the bus has also been changed, but the old-fashioned 'plug' slot on it is still there, indicating that it is also compatible with the previous XT board, and the others have yet to be analyzed." The Americans finally made a move, but I didn't expect us to rush to it and still release it at the same time as them, why is it so inch!"

A long puff of smoke was spewed, and he said: "At least it's not lagging behind, isn't it?" And the 'sex' of our processor can be absolutely dominant, BM isn't crazy to promote the processor power of its AT machine, just right, let's also push the 'wave' to help the fire." ”

"It's just as good as you don't need you to fan the flames!" Hans also dragged up the article, "The European market is relatively closed, and IBM has no place to use as a microcomputer position, they are more concerned about the sales of mainframe computers." I have a data here, although IBM accounted for half of the entire microcomputer market last year, but two-thirds of its profits are provided by mainframe computers, that is to say, compared with IBM's other businesses, the importance of microcomputer manufacturing is still relatively small. ”

"You're saying we have a great opportunity in Europe?" said with a long laugh.

"Not really. Hans shook his head and said, "IBM-PC is famous, and now the AT machine is on sale simultaneously in the world, and its impact is far greater than our EC machine, and we are trying our best to promote it in the European market, with excellent 'sex' performance, it is only a tie, and the configuration of the AT is stronger than ours." ”

I almost didn't believe my ears for a long time: "Will 286 be better than my K32......?"

Hans waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be impatient, we are no worse than anyone else in terms of processor, but the hard disk of the AT machine is 20 megabytes, and our EC machine only has 10 trillion hard disk space, and the gap is doubled!"

"Then let's change it to 20 trillion, what's so difficult about that?" I felt incomprehensible for a long time, how could this kind of thing happen.

"IBM's 20-megabyte hard drive is the latest product they've developed, and no one has been able to copy it yet. Hans said helplessly, "All we can do is to pray to God for a miracle except to vigorously compete for the political market." ”

"This is too funny! It actually depends on that kind of illusory thing!" He has been secretly hating for a long time, but he has no way, and this gap in the industrial base cannot be changed in a short period of time, and this is still the case in Europe, let alone China? After all, the United States is the birthplace of modern IT technology, and its leading position is unbreakable.

If you can't fight the enemy, you can only outwit it. The "Ivy Plan", which had been plotting with Hans for a long time, was immediately launched, and both sides sent their own "elite" soldiers to form a semiconductor lab, with only one topic, that is, to study how to integrate more functions on the same chip.

"Bang!"

The cap flew into the air, the golden 'color' of the wine overflowed, and people cheered and celebrated.

Boca's people do have reason to be so happy, because under the leadership of the wise Esrich, IBM has once again dominated the market, and the release of the AT machine has suddenly given those compatible machine manufacturers a dull stick, and the new AT bus has no information to follow.

"Gentlemen, please be quiet. Esrich raised his glass, "First of all, thank you all for your efforts in the past year for our common ideals!"

"Long live PC!" suddenly resounded with cheers below.

"Those damned thieves have stolen the fruits of our victory, but once again we are ahead of them, and the AT machine is proof of that!" Esrich roared, "We can't let those locusts continue to eat away at our profits, we must hold our fruits firmly in our hands, and we will not allow others to touch them!"

"Long live profit!"

"We've got control of the AT bus, we've bought Intel stock, and to hell with those ***s in Detroit!"

"Long live the AT!"

Crazy, Esrich was 'driven' crazy by PCjr's failure and compatibility vendors, and actually came up with a stupid idea. A year ago, for the supply of PC, IBM bought 20% of Intel's shares, which appreciated a lot, Esrich had a whim, and it was indeed IBM's negligence that those compatible machine vendors could get accessories assembly so easily, so now take advantage of the sale of the new platform, buy all of Intel's 286, and those compatible machine manufacturers will not have rice to cook?

The genius's idea was different, and Esrich not only thought so, but also convinced the board to do so, and in keeping with this crazy plan, he announced that he would no longer develop machines based on 8088.

I don't know how others understand it, anyway, Esrich's prestige in the field of PC is unmatched, his words are the standard, Boca's input and output system division is his word, and people unreservedly believe that this god can defeat all enemies.

Ambition can't help it***, the 'sex' ability of the AT machine conquered Esrich, and this magic weapon made him determined, and even the software system wanted to do it himself.

The AT machine really lived up to expectations, and as soon as it was listed, it was regarded as a treasure by those companies, and its sales almost exceeded those compatible machines in the same period.

The compatibility machine manufacturers led by Compaq have mixed joys and sorrows, and the good news is that IBM actually gave up the XT market, leaving a large piece of cake for them to snatch.

It's just that this temporary carnival can't hide the panic, IBM does not release the specific information of the AT bus, and its desire to dominate the PC market is clearly revealed, if it can't be cracked, there will be no room for them to survive in the future.

Profit is like opium, addiction will not be so easy to stop. Since Compaq got on the ship of compatibility machines, the market and profits have risen exponentially, and it is impossible for them to give up.

The wolves naturally have the way of living of the wolves, and the compatible machine manufacturers are naturally unwilling to follow the pace of IBM, and formed an industrial alliance under the leadership of Compaq, and the first thing that comes to mind is reverse engineering, but only an analysis knows that the way inside is not shallow, not to mention the difficulty and time of development, the light effect is very problematic - how can engineers not simulate the perfect compatibility method.

In order to simulate the AT bus, the manufacturers racked their brains but did not make much progress, and the final things that came out were plausible, and the explanations of some specifications were vague, so they had to find another way.

What's funnier is that this other path was still thought up by an unknown young man, and that is Dale Dude. With Zhang Yi's funding, Dell's development in Texas is booming. He doesn't play cards according to common sense at all, he despises authority, since IBM has come up with the AT bus, then we have to go the same way with him, let's make a bus ourselves.

Of course, it depends on who says this, what Dell says is just like a fart, but it is different if someone takes the lead, there are always industry giants who are not willing to be lonely.

Intel is naturally this role 'color', if you talk about technical strength, Compaq can only be regarded as a nouveau riche, but Intel is 'forced' by IBM's policy, always thinking about what to do ^