The United States tried to devalue the dollar by signing the "Plaza Accord" in order to solve its foreign trade deficit, but in fact, for a long time after the "Plaza Accord," Japan's trade surplus with the United States increased sharply rather than decreased. Some experts believe that the sharp appreciation of the yen provides a good opportunity for Japanese companies to go global and expand overseas.

By mid-November, the dollar had depreciated by more than 20% and the yen had appreciated sharply, making Japanese entrepreneurs very arrogant, waving checks to "buy, buy, buy"!

In the United States, Hawaii, New York, Los Angeles and many other places, Japanese businessmen have appeared, and they have bought a lot of land and buildings.

In his previous life, Li Zetian had only heard that the Japanese were very crazy in the eighties and nineties, and even threatened to buy the United States, but now he can personally experience this era and feel it firsthand, and he can't help but be dumbfounded!

The Japanese are really rich, and even Li Zetian is ashamed of himself.

On November 5th, Dongfang Yuqin returned from vacation and started work. With her, Li Zetian is much more relaxed.

After more than a year of construction, the NSFNet network has been preliminarily completed, and the backbone communication line has a data transmission speed of 56kb/s, connecting the six major supercomputer centers in the United States and a large number of colleges and universities to achieve information sharing.

At this time, Galaxy Network launched the Galaxy-Model, which can transmit data up to 2400bit/s, crushing other modems at the moment and becoming a big hit in the industry.

Sprint began providing network access services.

In addition, Sprint's nationwide digital fiber network is being built is connected to the NSFNet network to form a larger network. Of course, FNet is biased towards academic research, and Sprint's nationwide digital fiber network is biased towards business.

A magnificent picture has begun to unfold!

Li Zetian is not the only genius in this world, there are also people who see the development potential of the Internet and are actively involved in it.

In mid-November, when Li Zetian learned about the development of 32-bit personal computers at Mango Computer Company, he happened to meet this person.

“Mr· Li, I'm very surprised to meet you here, I'm Steve Case, the founder of AOL!"

AOL !!

When Li Zetian heard this, his heart moved, and he couldn't help but look at the other party, "He is the founder of AOL, so young, only twenty-six or seventeen years old?"

Before the bursting of the Internet bubble, AOL was very awesome, but in just over a decade, AOL's total capital has reached $164 billion, with revenue of $4.8 billion in fiscal year 1999, profits of $762 million, and 12,100 employees, becoming the world's largest online service company and the world's most famous e-commerce platform. It can be said that AOL is the most famous Internet company representing the "new economy" of the United States, and its market value is equivalent to twice that of the computer giant IBM at that time!

AOL is a formidable rival.

"Oh, hello, Mr. Steve Case, do you have anything to do with coming to Mango Company?" asked Li Zetian.

"That's right, we at AOL have developed an online service system, and I hope to be able to install it on Mango computers!"

At this time, the CEO of Mango Computer whispered to Li Zetian: "Mr· Li, this guy comes almost every day, and it looks like if we don't install their online service system, he's probably going to stop talking!"

Li Zetian nodded, indicating understanding, turned his head to look at Steve Case, and thought to himself that this guy didn't know how many computer companies he had run, and he was also so stubborn?

"Hello, Mr. Case, I would like to first learn about the strength of your company. After all, Mango Computer Company is a big brand company, and the companies we cooperate with are very powerful, so as to ensure that consumers like our products!" Li Zetian asked in a light tone.

Steve Keys was slightly embarrassed when he heard this, but he quickly covered it up.

“Mr· Li, don't worry, although AOL is a start-up company, our company is also very powerful!"

Li Zetian smiled and said, "Well, then you go back first, and I will send someone to your company to take a look later, and then think about it." ”

“Mr· Li, why don't you take a look at our company's software first?" Steve Case hurriedly pitched.

"Don't worry, you can watch it later! I'm very busy now, don't worry, I'll send someone to your company!"

"Alright then!" Steve Keys sighed.

As soon as Steve Keys left, Li Zetian said to Dongfang Yuqin beside him: "Send someone to investigate AOL, you need to be detailed!"

"Yes!"

At the moment, the online services market is not dynamic at all, but AOL can focus on this market, and it is no wonder that it will be able to succeed in the future!

Subsequently, Li Zetian turned his head to look at the CEO of Mango Computer Company and consulted about the development of 32 personal computers.

On January 1 this year, Intel released the 32-bit Intel80386 chip, and Mango Computer began to develop a 32-bit personal computer, which lasted 11 months, and it must have been successfully developed.

As soon as the 32-bit personal computer comes out, it will inevitably crush the 16-bit personal computer and become the mainstream of the moment.

"Four-fifths of the way through the development process, it should be available for global release in April next year," said the CEO of Mango Computer, "The operating system will use Microsoft's third-generation operating system, indos 3.0." ”

"Take me to the lab. ”

"Okay, Mr. Li, please come with me. ”

After a while, Li Zetian and others came to a laboratory and also saw a 32-bit personal computer under development.

In terms of appearance, it is similar to the current mainstream computers, and it looks relatively bloated.

Li Zetian took a closer look and felt that the reason why the desktop computer was bloated was mainly because the hard disk was too large.

At the moment, the size of the floppy disk has been reduced to 3.5 inches, which is okay, and it will continue to be like this in the future until it is replaced by a USB flash drive. The hard disk is 5.25 inches, which is a big one, and Li Zetian only noticed this problem at this time.

Didn't Seagate develop magnetoresistive technology?

Although Li Zetian doesn't know much about hard disks, he also knows that magnetoresistive technology is the key to hard disks.

In fact, at the end of the 80s, IBM introduced MR (Magneto Resistive) technology, which greatly improved the sensitivity of the magnetic head, so that the storage density of the platter was increased by dozens of times compared with the previous 20Mbpi (bit per square inch), which laid the foundation for a huge increase in the capacity of hard disks. In 1991, IBM applied this technology to launch the first 3.5-inch 1GB hard drive. Later, IBM launched the GMR giant reluctance technology, which further improved the sensitivity of the magnetic head, thereby increasing the storage density. Since then, almost all hard drives have used GMR giant magnetoresistive technology.