"There is no instability in our 'operational' system!"

This is Zhang Yi's reply, and after some urgent testing, the programmers of VS came to this conclusion and expressed great indignation at IBM for this shameless explanation.

Originally, if this had been put aside a year ago, maybe VS would have forgotten about it, at most there would have been a statement or something. But now it's different from the past, VS's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, attracting a lot of software big names to vote, and any one of them is famous.

In order to cooperate with IBM's release of AT machines, Zhang Yi specially transferred the company's "elite" soldiers to join Boca's R&D team to help Esrich develop. Therefore, the AT machine is pre-installed with the latest godson 2.0, which adds many 'features', supports 286 virtual memory space expansion and protection mode.

This is a major leap forward for the PC version of Godson, the first time a new version has been released without long-term involvement, so those who participated in the improvement of the system are treating this version of the system as if they were their own sons, and how can they allow Esrich to be there to point fingers!

Bill Joy, Zhang Yi was a master who was dug up in 83 years after three visits to the thatched house, and a top student at Berkeley. Joey had already made a name for himself when he was a graduate student in school, and there were many stories along the way.

In the 80s, it was the time when the microcomputer was emerging, but orthodox hackers in the university didn't play this, because to be honest, this thing was really not on the table compared to the small computer and the mainframe. As one of the birthplaces of modern computer technology, Berkeley naturally spawned the most avid hackers of its time.

Joy was naturally one of them, admiring the glory of his predecessors, and in order to prove his ability, he also wrote a 'manipulation' system on the pdp11 minicomputer in Berkeley modeled after Unix, which is the famous BSD.

At that time, the culture of hackers seemed to be popular to do this, and the unix code was also open, so Uncle Qiao's behavior was not shocking at the time, but it was a little faster, and it is said that it only took three days for the predecessor of BSD to be completed...... What a skill! What a cow B!

Extraordinary people should do extraordinary things, Uncle Qiao is naturally no exception, the law of hacking is to explore the maximum potential of hardware, never use the garbage made by commercial companies, real men should write their own drivers, 'operate' the system and so on...... As a result, BSD developed step by step, and in the end, even commercial companies were alarmed and obtained authorization in Berkeley to add TCP/IP modules to BSD.

It's just that this thing still has a copyright for Qiao Ye, how can these guys be ruined.

"I refuse!"

“hy？”

"BBN is rubbish, and the modules written are rubbish!"

“……”

Qiao Ye was still a graduate student at the time, and how could he convince the public when he spoke wildly above the lobby? Moreover, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) signed a huge development contract with BBN, how could he give up because of such a sentence, so the development of BBN continued.

In this way, Qiao Ye, who was ignored, was angry, and he did it single-handedly, and at the speed of three less, he wrote the Berkeley version of TCP/IP in a short period of time, which shocked the four seats and made BBN collapse.

These are just Niu B things in Joey's early years, after graduating with a master's degree in 82, he developed into the industrial world, and the microcomputer company didn't want to go, he wanted 'sex' ability, so he came to work as a workstation under Professor Su at that time.

It's just that Joey belongs to the rebellious generation, very casual, although he also works overtime, but he always does some of his own 'private' work, which makes Professor Su very headache, and friction arises.

There is no place to stay here, and I am tired of Professor Su's nagging, so Joey will say goodbye. It just so happened that Zhang Yi became the owner of VS, and the two hit it off, and Joey became a member of VS, responsible for the improvement and development of the godson system.

Wearing T-shirts, drinking Coke, listening to rock and roll, and reading magazines, this is the general image of Joey's development work at Boca, even in meetings, and the orthodox employees of the Blue Giants hate it, but there is nothing they can do about him.

Joey, who used to be a hacker, was really both hard and soft, often flipping through magazines in meetings without saying a word, waiting for the people at IBM to say something wrong, and then 'pumping' a cold sentence to choke them to death, which made the people at IBM frustrate for a long time.

When Joey came to the United States for a long time, he was still playing cat and mouse with Esrich in Boca, so he didn't see the legend.

This time with the AT machine is released by Joey's hands godson2.0, as the main developer of BSD, Joey on this homogeneous "operation" system naturally started very quickly, the concise and efficient program between the lines of the "exposed" is the author's profound understanding, Joy was surprised to find that he and the author has not been "masked" so much common language, the original microcomputer "operation" system can also be made like this.

The godson2.0 that he poured his heart and soul into was actually said to be the source of the crash by Boca's scrap wood, which naturally made Joey angry, and after 'spending' a few days of analysis, Joey published an article with the help of an electronics magazine, detailing the reason why the AT machine is always 'pumping'.

It turns out that the culprit is the latest large-capacity hard drive, and I don't know which one Esrich has entered, and its hard disk control circuit actually has major defects, as long as it is replaced, it is OK.

Thousands of hackers and merchants experimented according to the ideas written in the article, and sure enough, the machines that replaced the hard disks were running normally, while the IBM genuine AT machines were still malfunctioning, which slapped Esrich and lost face.

However, although IBM has fallen a little bit this time, it has finally found the crux of the problem, and Esrich was furious and ordered to dispose of all the inventory problem hard drives. In order to carry out this order, his subordinates carried out it quite thoroughly, borrowing from the practice of Atari back then, and dumping tens of thousands of hard disks into the sea.

Stabilize the situation,ATTcompared to the old PC's excellent 'sex' ability is also brought into play,People found that 286 is really good,Those software running on the PC are refreshed on the AT machine,It's not the same.。

Without the 'compatible' of the machine, the sales of the AT have steadily increased, its profits are guaranteed, and Esrich has achieved the peak of his career.

"The people at IBM are going to make a new move again!" Zhang Yi 'handed over' a contract to Joey, "can you put your shoes on!"

Joey embarrassed to put his 'legs' away from the table: "What's the task?"

"IBM felt that godson's capabilities weren't meeting the requirements of its machines, so they were ready to work with us to develop a new system that would be compatible with their mainframe systems, you see. ”

Joey looked at the design requirements, nodded and didn't speak.

"You are the person in charge of the 'operation' system, you see if there is any problem, if there is no problem, then take it?" Zhang Yi said.

"What about our graphics system?" Joey looked up at Zhang Yi and said, "There are not enough people, and I am afraid that I will not be able to guarantee the progress of taking on the big job of IBM." ”

Zhang Yi also understands that this is the truth, but IBM's big order can't be ignored, even if he doesn't take it, there are a lot of people who are grabbing "There is no problem with technology!" Zhang Yi thought for a while and said, "I will solve the manpower matter, as long as it is technically feasible." ”

"Alas. Joey sighed, "I'm going to be busy again!

Zhang Yi smiled: "If you can work hard, if you have any excellent candidates to recommend, anyway, when there is no suitable person to replace you, you have to do it!"

"That's right!" Joey pulled out another list, "'Female' gentleman, buy these things, and the EC machine that was shipped a few days ago, I like it very much." ”

"No problem!"

Xi'menzi is a long-established enterprise with a dense sales organization in Europe, and EC machines are also sold to European countries.

I love and hate the EC Ximenzi, and I love that its 'sexuality' is stable and reliable, and its computing power is still very strong, so it is very popular with all countries; this hatred is more complicated, involving factional issues.

Because Xi'men had a strategy to dominate the European computer market very early, it also made a lot of investments in this regard, including funding some small companies to design processors and obtain Intel 286 technology licenses.

Originally, the old PC sold okay in Europe, 021 The market has shrunk greatly, people slowly can't stand the speed of this thing, the release of the AT machine solves this problem for them, but there is such a recall scandal, which makes people sad.

Fortunately, the EC machine released at the same time in Brussels turned out to fill this gap. Those business users were pleasantly surprised to find that EC is actually a 32-bit high-performance microcomputer, which is not much better than that of minicomputers and workstations, as long as the memory configuration is high enough, any job can be done.

The best thing is that the godson system is still a thoroughly high-performance system, originally developed for minicomputers and workstations, many of the software running on it can be easily ported, and there are countless software transferred from the PC, but the price of the system is the same or even lower than the AT, creating a sales miracle for a while, beating the AT at 100% per month.

Because of the production capacity problem and the world strategy, Intel specially authorized the 286 technology to the West Gate, so the West Gate Semiconductor itself also produces this processor, and the decline of the AT machine in Europe inevitably made it suffer a little loss.