Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future..

When Gawain remembered everything about the TRON project, he suddenly became unsettled again.

He realized that he had taken it for granted before, thinking that relying on the excellent performance of the Chilong operating system and the concept of free and open source, he could replace DOS, and then defeat the future Windows system, thus establishing the hegemony of the Chilong operating system in the field of computer operating systems.

But now, judging from the lessons of the failure of the TRON project in the previous life, this is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Realistically, isn't the TRON operating system developed under the TRON project in the previous life just as good, as free, and as open source as the Windows operating system?

The answer is, of course, yes, that the TRON operating system is much better than the Windows operating system.

The TRON operating system has not only been unanimously recognized by scholars in the world's computer industry, but also has the participation of IBM, a leading big brother in the computer industry. Even compared with commercial operating systems such as the Windows operating system, which are not open source and have a fee, it is not only free and open source, but also inherently better than the Windows operating system in terms of security.

But this is such an operating system that is better than the Windows system everywhere, but under the "310 Super Act" of the United States, it loses to the Windows operating system that is not as good as itself.

This can't help but make Gawain a little sad and sad.

The TRON operating system, which is backed by the world's second largest economic power, has still fallen to such a point.

The conditions are somewhat similar to the TRON operating system in all aspects, but there is no red dragon operating system supported by the world's second economic power like the TRON operating system, and how can it replace the current DOS operating system and surpass the Windows operating system in the future and become the hegemon in the field of computer operating systems.

After thinking about it again and again, Gawain had to admit that he still couldn't convince people with 'virtue'. If the Chilong operating system is the first to set a precedent of free and open source, it is very likely that it will be like the TRON operating system in the previous life, which will not be tolerated by American interest groups, and will be stifled by the American government at the beginning, so that in the end, there is no grand blueprint, but it can only end in a hasty way.

Such an ending is undoubtedly unacceptable to Gawain, and he can't accept that the Red Dragon Operating System will end up in the same fate as the TRON Operating System.

He secretly made up his mind to protect the Red Dragon Operating System no matter what.

For this reason, he thought that he had to do something to prevent this doom from befalling the Red Dragon Operating System.

At this moment, Gawain suddenly had an idea in his mind. He secretly said that why didn't he take the initiative to muddy the water and take the initiative to create an opportunity for himself to fish in troubled waters.

He even went one step further and thought about why not come and take the TRON plan of the Fuso people in front of it to attract the attention of the Americans, while he himself hid behind the wave of obscene development.

Thinking about it like this, Gawain had a plan in his heart.

He glanced up at Sakamura, and naturally put on a posture that he had nothing to do with himself, and asked Sakamura rhetorically:

"So, after all this talking, you must have something to ask for. ”

Sakamura bowed and very sincerely extended an invitation to Gawain:

"So I would like to ask Mr. Gao to join us in our 'TRON' program with your Chilong operating system. ”

Gawain shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands out:

"But what's in it for me? I don't think it's any good, but it will also affect my Hanka sales. The sale of this Hanka is a big business involving hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, and if I lose it because I sold the Red Dragon Operating System to you, what will you use to compensate me?"

Speaking of this, Gawain paused for a moment and sneered: "You want to send me away with only $10 million and take away the source code of my Red Dragon operating system, you can't help but think too beautifully." ”

Seeing that things were at an impasse, Ono suddenly asked:

"Mr. Gao values the Chilong operating system because it helps Hanka's sales, do you say that my analysis is correct?"

Gao Wen squinted and smiled, nodded and said, "Not bad!"

Ono continued, "If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Gao's Hanka currently costs around $250 to produce. ”

Gawain was shocked, and he didn't know which one Ono was going to sing.

Gao Wen, who couldn't guess what Ono meant by saying this, immediately admitted quietly:

"You're a good person, and Hanka's production costs are pretty much as you said. ”

At this time, Ono continued: "If we have a way to reduce the cost of Hanka to less than 30 US dollars, I wonder if Mr. Gao is willing to cut off the Red Dragon Operating System?"

When Gao Wen heard that he could reduce his energy, he couldn't help but be interested.

"Oh, do you really have what it takes?"

Ono affirmed, "Of course!"

Immediately, Ono revealed his plan and plan.

The plan sounds simple, Ono plans to build a Hanka production line for Gao Wen on the mainland on the other side of the Xiangjiang River, and use the cheap resources and labor of the mainland at this time to greatly reduce the production cost of Hanka.

But this plan sounds simple, but it is not simple at all.

Because it involves the core hardware of Hanka - memory chips.

Hanka is an expansion card that solidifies the Chinese character input method and its driver into a single read-only memory. In addition to its software programs, the core is the memory chip used to store the program.

This also means that if Ono wants to build a Hanka production line, he must first build a wafer factory with a five-micron process technology that can produce digital integrated circuits such as memory chips.

Otherwise, the memory chips, which account for the vast majority of the cost of Hanka, would be impossible to reduce the production cost of Hanka to less than $30 if they were not produced in the mainland.

Today's mainland has only just mastered the 10-micron process.

If this wafer factory with a five-micron process technology can be built on the mainland, so that those scientific research units studying integrated circuits in the mainland have a reference and imitation object, it will play a great role in improving the overall level of the mainland's integrated circuit manufacturing industry.

At the same time, this is not an opportunity for him to set foot in the field of integrated circuit manufacturing, and he can use this as a stepping stone to knock on the door of the mainland's talent treasure trove, and lay the initial foundation for his information empire.

It's just that in the face of this beautiful prospect, there is an obstacle that Gawain has to worry about.

"Your plan is good, but you face a big problem. That is, whether the five-micron wafer production line on the mainland is within the scope of the Batumi Treaty?"

Ono smiled confidently and said, "You don't have to worry about this, we have our own way." ”

"In that case, then everything is negotiable. ”

Seeing Ono's confident look, another bold idea of borrowing chickens to lay eggs came into being in Gao Wen's heart.

"I can give you the source code of the Chilong operating system, but I ask you to build a Hanka production line with an annual output of 100,000 for me free of charge. ”

Ono agreed: "This is no problem. However, we also have one condition, that is, the Chilong operating system cannot be licensed to others except for Mr. Gao's own company's own use. ”

"I can say yes. ”

Although Gawain agreed, he still kept an eye on it. When the contract was signed, all the terms were only based on the 1.0 version of the Chilong operating system.

As for whether the little devil will win over the blue after getting the source code of the Red Dragon Operating System, and finally defeat his Gawain's Red Dragon Operating System, Gawain, who has the system, is not worried at all.

On the contrary, with the help of the 'TRON' project, he was able to complete the task of developing a computer operating system as soon as possible.

With his confidence in the system as a gunman, the computer operating system he developed has been perfected to the point where it cannot be changed in a short period of time. At most, Sakamura and the others changed the soup and changed the name of the Chilong operating system to the TRON operating system.

But whether it's called the Red Dragon operating system or the TRON operating system, its essence is still the same thing.

At most, it will be with subsequent computer hardware upgrades that different changes will occur when developing the next generation of operating systems.

However, the arrival of Sakamura this time also gave Gao Wen a wake-up call.

At present, it is not enough for him to focus on software development, he must grasp both soft and hard, and both hands must be hard.

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"Mr. Ono, you don't have to spend that much at all. The Hanka production line is worth more than $20 million, and if we put $20 million into the 'TRON' project, we can also achieve good results." ”

"Mr. Sakamura, what we lack most now is time. ”

"But in this way, Gao Wenke has taken a big advantage. ”

No, Mr. Sakamura, I think the opposite is true, we took advantage of it.

It's ridiculous that although Gawain is a software genius, he has eyes and doesn't know gold and jade. I only know that I cling to the backward Hanka, and I don't know that the Red Dragon operating system is the real treasure.

When I came to Hanka, I was simply reversing technology, a problem that could be solved with a software solution, but it had to be solved in a clumsy way with a hardware solution.

At present, it is only in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Nanyang, and the mainland, which are economically backward and cannot afford to use more advanced and expensive small computers, that it has some markets. If this is to be put in our Fuso, no one cares about it at all.

But the operating system is different. As basic software, it and the hardware of a computer are like the soul and body of a person, both of which are indispensable. Whoever can win one of the two will become the prince who dominates the field of information technology in the future. If you can achieve both, you can become the undisputed hegemon in the field of information in the future.

Now Gawain wants to give us the cornerstone of dominance, and what we pay is only a production line that is about to be eliminated.

You say that in doing this, who is more cost-effective and who is more advantageous. ”

Speaking of this, Ono gave a meaningful expression.

"Sometimes we don't just look at the immediate benefits, we have to look at the longer term. ”