Qiu Bojun is the first generation of programmers in the real sense of the Chinese nation, and some people even say that he is the first real programmer in China, in the nineties when the Chinese software industry still advocates individual heroism, Qiu Bojun is definitely the idol of all programmers in China at that time. Qiu Bojun is arrogant, of course he has arrogant capital, because in the land of China in the nineties, as long as there is a computer, there will be a WPS with his name printed on the splash screen. Even in the eyes of many people, using a computer is using WPS, and it is inconceivable to claim to be able to use a computer without knowing WPS.

For Qiu Bojun, his WPS represents the highest level of Chinese PC software in this era, so there are not many software works that can make him look at them, or even none. But one afternoon in the late autumn of '91, a letter from the Central Plains Province in northern China brought him a big surprise.

When he opened the letter, there was a piece of paper with a sentence printed on it: "Hello, Mr. Qiu Bojun, please contact me if you are interested after reading the software and documents in the floppy disk, I am Li Yan from Fenghuang Township Middle School in Shangyang City, Central Plains Province." ”

Qiu Bojun smiled, he thought it was junk software designed by some pretentious so-called programmer, since the success of his WPS, he occasionally received similar letters, mostly so-called boutique software designed by some pretentious programmers. He inserted the floppy disk into the floppy drive of his computer, typed in a few commands, and browsed the contents of the floppy disk, which included a WPS document and a directory, and when he entered the directory, he found that there was a software that had been compiled, and there was no source code that came with the software that the usual programming masters sent.

Qiu Bojun typed in the boot command of this software after the computer command line, the computer screen suddenly changed, a rotating Tai Chi pattern appeared in the center of the screen, the bottom of the screen reads: Tai Chi word processing system, below the text is a system loading progress bar, and further down, the lower left corner of the screen reads: Author: Li Yan exclusive copyright reserved. The system progress bar quickly scrolled to 100 percent, and as the screen changed again, an interface made Qiu Bojun a little amazing software presented in front of him, and the software suddenly popped up a dialog box, prompting whether to automatically load the WPS documents in the floppy disk.

Qiu Bojun clicked yes, and then the WPS document stored in the floppy disk was also loaded into the software, the title of the document was "Desktop Office System, the Future Battlefield", Qiu Bojun looked at the software and documents in front of him, and said secretly in his heart: "The interface of this software is really beautiful, but I don't know how the function is, I don't want it to be an embroidered pillow on the outside, and lose on the inside." Let's take a look at the documentation first. ”

The document first analyzes the current development of the IBMPC operating system in the world, and then points out that with the gradual acceleration of the popularization of the PC, it is foreseeable that in the next five years, the IBMPC and its compatible machines will become the popularization of personal computers in the real sense, and at that time, the mainstream users of computers will no longer be limited to the current universities, scientific research institutions or some government agencies. With the popularization of computer users, whether an operating system is simple and easy to use at that time will become an important factor in whether the operating system can become the mainstream of the market, followed by the advanced and safe technology of the operating system.

Computer graphical interface undoubtedly has a unique advantage, and in terms of operating system graphics, although there are other companies launched several finished products, but the application scope of these operating systems is not in the field of PC, and in the field of PC, Microsoft has begun to walk in the front of the world, according to this situation, once Microsoft one day with its own years of development and exploration, launched a set of real sense of the complete graphical interface of the operating system, then it will rely on a strong Microsoft and Intel technology alliance to quickly monopolize the PC graphics operating system market, and may grow into a super software empire。

As one of the most important software of the PC, the desktop office system also has such a problem, the desktop office system with the popularity of the PC, it will face the same problem, simple, easy to use, intuitive will become an important factor to measure the success of a desktop office system.

The article then analyzes the current development of the desktop office system in the world, and points out that graphics is also the inevitable development trend of the desktop office system, with the wide range of popularity of PCs, in the future desktop office system market will be a very large market, it is big enough to make any computer company in the world perpendicular three feet, and the current market is still in the development stage, there is no doubt that in China, as one of the important components of the desktop office system word processing system WPS has been at the forefront of the times, but if WPS does not do innovation, then at the same time that Microsoft has successfully monopolized the PC operating system marketIt will definitely aim at this cake for a while, and then with the unique advantages of its own operating system, it may even swallow up the market that WPS has worked so hard to build, and the future will be an era of only seeing Microsoft Office and no WPS. Therefore, in order to achieve victory in this war without gunpowder that is coming in a few years, it is necessary to start preparing now......

If you rely on some of the above analysis and predictions, it is inevitable that there will be some holes, Li Yan has foreseen this when he wrote this document, so he then spent a certain amount of space in the article on the Tai Chi article processing system in front of Qiu Bojun from the design concept, to the implementation of the function and operation mode have been introduced in detail, of course, Li Yan also mentioned the current domestic word processing system used in the Hanka problem, Tai Chi word processing system in the design of the use of an advanced design mechanism, so that the Tai Chi word processing system can intelligently identify the current domestic mainstream Hanka interface, and automatically call the corresponding Hanka driver for processing。 However, in the article, Li Yan also mentioned that Hanka is only a stage product of the current development of computer hardware, and with the continuous upgrading of computer hardware, Hanka will be eliminated in the next three to five years, so the design of the word processing system is the core.

The document concludes by suggesting that if Qiu Bojun had fully understood the functions and features of the Tai Chi word processing system, he would have chosen which one he would buy, if the two had the same selling price.

Qiu Bojun quickly read all the contents of the document, and then according to the introduction of the document, he tried the various functions of Tai Chi text one by one, for the various predictions mentioned in the article from the beginning of the doubt, to the later convinced, as a senior computer software expert, his horizons are broad, everything described in the document he understands, but he did not think about this problem at a deeper level, nor did he think that a few years later, Microsoft's desktop office system will fully dominate the desktop office system market, which is difficult for him to accept, because he poured too much emotion into WPS, WPS is like his child, but for the question raised by Li Yan at the end of the article, although he was emotionally unacceptable, he still had a choice.

With the gradual familiarity of Qiu Bojun with the Tai Chi word processing system, he became more and more interested in the amazing programmer Li Yan who could develop such a complete graphical interface software, he was like a chivalrous man with unique skills, eager to have an opponent who could talk to him on an equal footing, so now he has a can't wait to meet this magical programmer.

When Qiu Bojun turned off the computer, took out the floppy disk from the computer, put it in his briefcase and came out of the office, it was already completely dark, and he sat in the office for more than two hours before he knew it.

The next day, Qiu Bojun began to arrange the work of the WPS R&D team during this period of time, and a day after he arranged all the work in hand, he resolutely stepped on the train to Zhongyuan Province alone and began the journey to find the magical programmer Li Yan.

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Just when Qiu Bojun arranged his own work and was about to come to visit Li Yan, Li Yan, Ma Jun, and Huang Xiaosan were crowding around in the bustling crowd at the temple fair in Fenghuang Village, and the last temple fair in Fenghuang Village in 91 years began.

PS: One chapter first, and one more chapter after twelve o'clock.