John Chambers and other traditional backbones of Wang An's lineage, who did not know that Gu Biao was behind him, helped them temporarily block a question of "not suffering from inequality".

I also don't know the cross-company rotation arrangement I will face in the future.

These are at least a year or two away, so there's no need to pick them out now.

Early the next morning, Gu Biao came to the headquarters of Wang An as scheduled, convened the technical and project leaders of Wang An Computer, listened to the progress of the project, and made some arrangements for the important first-party software development work.

John Chambers is currently acting as President, so he is responsible for convening meetings.

And Gu Biao is the first time to attend the conference, so he can't even recognize people.

However, Chambers erected a name sign in front of everyone's seats, and the position was also marked on it, which saved the embarrassment of direct face-to-face introduction.

In front of Gu Biao, a detailed personnel information was also placed, and everyone's qualifications were written on it, and Gu Biao was clear at a glance.

Andrea Sagan, the former head of Wang's hardware R&D department, was a typical white technocratic official.

Dr. Sagan graduated from Stanford, so Kaningham, an alumnus of the company's other co-founder, Kaningham, is a partner of Anwang Wang, who graduated from Stanford.

When Wang An Computer had just transformed into a complete machine and was facing listing, Kaningham went back to his alma mater to find design talents in microelectronics, and the tutor of the relevant department recommended this brother to him, which was already in 1967. Therefore, this Andrea Sagan can be regarded as having worked in Wang An for 20 years after graduating from graduate school, and is now about 45~50 years old.

The original head of the software research and development department of Wang An Computer was a Chinese-American named Li Weiqi. Probably because Han Chinese are not lagging behind white people in programming, and software is easier to spell out with effort than hardware. He was a little younger than Andrea, in his early forties.

This age structure is also very much in line with the characteristics of American computer companies in the late 80s.

Basically, before the early 60s, there were very few 100% soft programmers in the world.

At that time, assembly language and even early machine language were often used, and most developers knew a little bit of hardware and software.

Since the early 70s, programmers have gradually become software-based. After all, languages were invented around '72 or '73.

Gu Biao had a little heart-to-heart talk with both of them to boost their morale, and then explained to Andrea Sagan:

"At present, most of your hardware configuration plans are okay, but you must also be prepared to adjust them at any time. In this project, our R&D task is application-oriented, which is different from previous R&D, and the rhythm of Wang An's era is not suitable for the present. ”

"I don't quite understand what you mean. Sagan was very straightforward and asked in the American way of communication.

"The so-called application-oriented means that when we design a new computer, we have to think about what epoch-making new software will make the computer run perfectly. In addition to Motorola's 68000 series P, the hardware cannot be replaced, other memories and supporting components must be oriented to meet functional requirements and be matched and upgraded

If the software department tests it at that time and feels that the current hardware configuration cannot run perfectly, we will change it until it can run perfectly before it is finalized and mass-produced. ”

Andrea Sagan muttered a shrug, "Oh roar, isn't that what Tyrant Steve Jobs did?" I've heard an old guy from me who worked at Apple, and before the Macintosh generation went public three years ago, the tyrant yelled at him that 'if you can't shorten the boot time of a Macintosh computer to less than four minutes, you won't be allowed to go on the market.'" We'd rather not sell it, and when the component technology advances, the boot speed can be shortened to 4 minutes one day, and then we will sell it." ”

Sagan's is not a joke, but a real story. According to the Macintosh generation, which was already about to be listed at that time, after trying their best to optimize, the plan given by the engineers still needed to start up in 4 minutes and 28 seconds at the earliest.

Jobs gave orders blindly and shouted at the engineers, threatening the engineers to "do whatever it takes" to compress the boot time to less than 4 minutes.

Jobs also had a passage that was later widely spread by fruit fans: "Think about it, our computers are meant to be used by 1 million users, and each person wastes an extra 28 seconds every time they turn on the computer, which is 28 million seconds, a third of the year." If everyone turns on the spicy chicken boot program you designed 200 times, you will murder one person's life. You murderers who are only theoretically charged with emotion! You should be punished as murder!"

But then again, if it weren't for this kind of tyrant who blindly commands and doesn't care about principles, this kind of thing sometimes can't be done.

But if you change to a boss who can listen to the interpreter's explanation, the interpreter will be mixed up and returned as an "unreasonable demand".

Ci is not in charge of the army, and righteousness is not good.

Sagan's words made Chambers break out in a cold sweat: "Andrea, how did you talk to the boss!"

Fortunately, Gu Biao showed his generosity in time, and he waved his hand at Chambers who stood up: "It's okay, people with ability have a big temper, I can bear this, I'll see the result."

I also understand that you Americans go straight to culture, don't think of me as Chinese, my degree of glorification is no less than Mr. Wang An, I am a student of Professor Kei, the education received at Georgetown University. ”

"You're so elegant. Chambers secretly wiped his forehead with a tissue, and mediated with a smile, "I don't think Andre intentionally resists, so let's discuss first, which application software needs to be met by this generation of models." If it is indeed urgent and reasonable, Ande will definitely cooperate. ”

"Well, we should be right about things and not people. "Corporal Gu Lixian, and then asked Chambers to send some information,

“bsp; Since I bought Wang An's computer, rather than relying on Tiankun to start from scratch, it means that our strategy is still to win over business and workplace elites as the main goal. The white-collar work attributes of our computers cannot be lost.

For this reason, I have talked about some acquisitions and investments, or strategic cooperation, and attracted some third-party software vendors to join. At the same time, we also have to do a good job of supporting and supplementing, after the introduction of new fields, we have to develop the software that cannot be done by third parties. ”

Gu Wei picked up the materials that Chambers had just sent for him and patted them.

"Documentation, tabulation, we already have. The production and display of slide presentation courseware are done by Wang Lie's company. Along these lines, the first thing that came to my mind was to meet the needs of designers in the workplace.

From the previous generation of computers to the current generation, the improvement in performance has led to the latest and most promising field of electronic office, which is design. This includes art, graphics, and other publishing-related issues.

I have invested in and cooperated with two companies here, both of which are based in the city of San Francisco, so you can learn about them.

One is called TDE, which was established 5 years ago, and it is not new. The other one is called Iredi, a new company 3 years ago.

For the former, I recently spent $15 million to acquire a 30% stake and signed an exclusive R&D contract with them.

When the company was founded in 1982, it developed an electronic mapping software, TD 1.0. However, at that time, the performance of computers could not keep up, and this high-precision graphics software could only work on IB's small computer workstations.

Until 84/85 years, as P performance began to get stronger, TD's 2.0 era, chose to cooperate with the IB/Microsoft Open Operating System Alliance, which had just been established at that time, to develop the P version, which can be used on Microsoft's -D1.0 system, of course, because -D only supports Intel 80x86 architecture P, so TD's version at that time was also optimized for 80286 or 386 instruction sets.

However, I feel that after these three years of P and other hardware technology advances, D-D based D software has reached a bottleneck. If TDE is willing to develop an optimized version by Wang Anping, it will be able to achieve a qualitative leap forward, and I hope that in the future, our computers will allow designers to draw drawings with a mouse or trackball or touchpad, instead of only playing the command line like the current D version. ”

This difference between Gu Biao may not be understood by users born in the 80s, 90s and even younger. Because later generations of people who used d were used to the combination of keyboard and mouse.

However, in history, throughout the mid-to-late 80s, two or three years before the advent of Widw, TD was actually based on pure keyboard typing on the command line to draw, and the most troublesome thing was that the interface feedback was not very intuitive, and the zoom was also cumbersome (the mouse era was used to directly the mouse wheel to zoom in the image size. However, in the D era, each zoom has to be played separately on the command line, and the coordinates of the zoom center point must be set)

You can imagine that most of the time D's machine doesn't even need a mouse, and it doesn't need a graphical interface, so can that thing work well?

What Gu Biao wants to do is not a D that completely starts from scratch, but at least a work that can capture the good feelings of all Yankong users around the world, including designers working in the field of beauty.

He wants to achieve real-time feedback from the graphical interface and a sense of control with mouse-assisted mapping.

This was done in 1988, bsp; Because the weakness of the D system is the same as that of the later Android machines, there must be a waste of hardware performance, and once you make an open operating system, you have to leave redundancy for the low-end hardware machines that defect to your system.

And Gu Ao's closed system is fully targeted and optimized, which is like Apple with the same p, and the performance should be stronger than Android.

Of course, Wang An's computer originally did not have a rich graphical interface to use the tradition, so Gu Biao's transformation design was somewhat borrowed from the style of Jobs next door.

Anyway, style is not protected by law in the first place.

"In addition to the D produced by TDE, another IREDI is relatively small, so I directly spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire it, leaving only some dividend shares for the entrepreneur team.

This iredi is a graphic processing that is biased towards art.,It's currently the second in the industry in the subdivision.,It's a competitor to the DBE company that has taken refuge in the Apple Alliance.。

My expectation is that it can play to its advantages in animation and film and television special effects processing, as well as in original art, and catch up with DBE's early lead in retouching and drawing. ”