After three days of front-line inspections that were busy on the ground,

Keep up with Zhang Zhongmou, down to the R&D department supervisors and front-line production line engineers for in-depth communication.

Gu Biao finally got a thorough understanding of the latest situation of Xiangji, and he also had a little bottom of the company's growth plan for the next one or two years.

During the inspection, some problems and new external resource needs were also discovered, and Gu Biao also sat down sincerely to talk and ensure that he helped find outsourcing.

His big net of "using the whole industrial chain to break the semi-industrial chain, blocking the position and swallowing the king and destroying the fruit" can be regarded as a bit of consolidation.

After all this, the time has been set to May '86.

Originally, Labor Day should be a holiday, but Gu Biao, who was so busy, could only take advantage of the holiday to continue his inspection trip, and rushed to Hanle Electronics non-stop to learn about the delivery and production problems of the first batch of Tiankun learning machines.

At the same time, the head of the R&D department of Tiankun in the United States, and even the president of Tiankun Entertainment, Schulhoff, were invited to Xiangjiang to play for a few days, and by the way, they had a meeting to solve the problems of the listing period.

The success of this "half-generation" transformation of Tiankun's learning machine is crucial to whether Tiankun can digest Wang An's R&D resources in the field of word processors in the future. If there is a generational gap and lack of experience accumulation in the process of using Motorola 68000 series CPUs, it will be fatal in the future.

As we all know, the original game console of Tian Kun used the 3MHZ version of the Motorola 68000, which was produced in 82.

THE LEARNING MACHINE IS A 85-YEAR PRODUCTION OF 6MHZ VERSION.

IN THE FUTURE, THE SECOND-GENERATION GAME CONSOLE (SIMILAR TO THE HISTORICAL SEGA'S MD16-BIT GAME CONSOLE) AND THE ORIGINAL TIANKUN-WANGAN COMPUTER WILL USE THE 88 VERSION 10MHZ VERSION. Apple's 88 MAC-II will also use this one.

Therefore, Gu Biao must ensure that the R&D department under his command has accumulated enough experience in each generation of Motorola 68000 series CPUs, and there can be no technical route faults.

If it is a company that purely makes game consoles, the fault line is inevitable, for example, Nintendo and the later Sony will face this problem, just because Nintendo only has a new product in six or seven years, and the new CPU in the middle of the three years may be skipped by them. The system design level of these companies has always stayed at making game consoles.

As we all know, players who have played PS4 consoles in later generations have had an experience: after the games on PS4 are running, it is really smooth. But when the game is installed, the selection interface, and the PS-STORE, it is really stuck, sluggish.

This is the short board of the big factory that only makes game consoles and makes the system.

While the principles are not strictly the same, the logic of requirements is the same.

Gu Biao's ambition is so great, of course, he can't make such a mistake.

The new functions of the learning machine and the additional bugs at the system integration level will bring are all valuable technical experience and wealth.

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On May Day, Gu Biao took Schulhoff and his entourage directly to Han Ting's factory. A project meeting was held in the conference room of Hanle Electronics.

The first batch of Tiankun learning machines that left the factory have actually been shipped to dealers in several first-tier cities and a few second-tier cities. The product test is also very rigorous, and there is no need for Gu Biao to care about it again, he is just reviewing and collecting feedback from all parties today.

The specific development of dealers does not have to worry about Gu Biao, which belongs to the daily work of the marketing department, and Schulhoff arranged Shi Yuzhu to do it.

Tian Kun has not even had time to set up a sales company in mainland China. At the same time, dealing with the domestic market, those Americans don't know how to do it, so they will hand over 100% to Shi Yuzhu for the time being.

In the conference room, there are a string of learning machine samples, as well as a few 25-inch flat high-definition color TVs produced by Hanle Electronics, which are used as external monitors for everyone to try. (Compared with the technology at the time, it was relatively "high-definition pure flat", but it was not absolutely flat)

Gu Biao was too busy a while ago, and this was the first time he had close contact with the final machine.

Gu Biao also saw that due to the delay of the inspection, some employees were afraid that the boss would suddenly put forward some moths and pat their heads and feel that some design details were not good, so their morale was a little uneasy.

So Gu Biao took the lead in setting a tone for today's meeting:

"Come on, come on, don't be restrained, I'm here today, it's an afterthought, just to listen to the feedback. I hope that every management of the company, whether technical or not, will personally use the company's products and put forward suggestions for optimization.

Even if the product is already on the market, the optimization suggestions can still be continued. Even if the opinion is accepted, it does not mean that the previous design, R&D, and project review meetings were wrong. We can slowly optimize and tweak it on the next fine-tuned model. ”

Gu Biao said this, and the person in charge of R&D and project review breathed a sigh of relief. Among these people are Professor Erikson and Lu Yunda, who have been with Gu Biao for four to six years.

"Mr. Gu, if you don't do that, you can first experience these typing games and word spelling games specially developed for learning machines. One of the project leaders in the software department, Yang Hao, took the lead in breaking the deadlock and took out a few games for Gu Biao to experience.

The department that develops game cartridges is currently relatively detached within Tiankun, and it is not easy to have super high performance, but it is also not easy to take the blame. After all, their products can be iterated immediately if they have a little bug, and the cost of mistakes is much smaller than that of building a game console.

"Let's try it, everybody. Gu Biao said, picked up the handle and operated it according to the instructions first, and after entering the typing and word-writing game, he took the keyboard and groped according to the operation in his memory.

86 years of technology, except for the ugly interface, is basically the same as the later generations of Xiaobawang learning to practice typing on the machine.

Because word games don't have high requirements for machine performance, they can be transformed into another game with a little fine-tuning, and it's not a hassle to turn into multiple typing games in a box of cartridges.

There are several crossword puzzles, as long as you fill in correctly, there are also phonetic words to read, which can be used to learn English.

There are also some variants, which are directly typesetting in the same mode as Wang An's word processor, which is refreshing and refreshing, and there is nothing fancy, just allowing users to directly imitate typing on the computer.

The only difference is that the Tiankun learning machine does not have typesetting and printing functions, and cannot be connected to an external printer or provide document storage. So it's just for fun, and you can't really work.

Gu Biao intuitively felt that "for less than 2,000 yuan, young people can learn to type with the same interface as a computer", which should be attractive to consumers in today's first-tier cities and a few second-tier cities.

At present, it costs more than 1,000 yuan to buy a color TV.

With 86 years of national consumption power, there are not millions of people in first- and second-tier cities, and color TVs are Japanese products.

"Do you think there is anything else that can be improved?" asked Gu Biao inspiringly after putting down the machine.

"We think it's all good, and the arguments are already very complete. "Schulhoff, as president, took the lead in seeking truth from facts.

Gu Xiao nodded and asked Yang Hao, who was in charge of developing the learning cassette: "In the future, if you don't change the hardware of the machine and only launch a new software cassette, can you type Chinese characters?" Also, can those spelling games for English learning display Chinese translation?"

Yang Hao listened, and was immediately a little embarrassed, and explained: "Boss, Wang An Computer itself has never done this, they are also doing WPS in English." We are not imitating plagiarism, but doing it according to industry practice, and at present, everyone in the computer field does not consider displaying Chinese.

If you work in China, there will be no such demand within a few years, and if you are a state-owned enterprise with the best domestic efficiency, who is willing to let the office clerk use the computer to type and process the copywriting. ”

Gu Biao waved his hand: "If others haven't done it, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't do it now." When we enter the Chinese market, sooner or later we have to show some sincerity - of course, there is no Chinese at first, and I think it is nothing, after all, it seems that we are more advanced and a real American brand.

Give consumers a certain psychological gap, let them know that 'only English is the duty, is an international practice; additional Chinese is a sentiment, is specially customized by entrepreneurs with a conscience and takes care of Chinese users', they will be more grateful to us, cherish this function, and pay for it."

As far as I know, from a technical point of view, as long as the font and font library are put in, they are developed at one time, and they can be called again and again in the future. If you store all this data on the cartridge, you probably don't need much storage space. If there is no manpower in this area,I suggest setting up a research and development team in China that is specifically responsible for sinicization,Recruit people from China,I think there have been enough talents in this area in China in recent years.。 ”

Gu Biao said it so carefully, naturally no one refuted it anymore.

Whether it's a personal computer or a game console, it's been developed to 86 years, and it's almost the first batch of Chinese talents in China to start emerging.

Gu Biao doesn't care if you Qiu Bojun or anyone else, anyway, as long as you can take out what I want, we will recruit you with a high salary and give out project bonuses and incentives.

Historically, the WPS of the domestic Jinshan system gradually entered this market after Wang An Computer began to decline. Later, the professional word processing machines were gone, and they evolved into a new generation of full-featured personal computers such as WPS/WORD.

It's just that now, all the conditions have to be created by Gu Wei himself.

Yang Hao estimated it and said: "If you invest enough R&D resources, there is no pressure on cartridge storage." The code of typesetting and display, Wang An's English WPS can be directly borrowed, and in terms of Chinese characters, the key is a font, and there is a font.

The font needs to be written by yourself, and a commonly used Chinese character font is only a few bytes, and if you only make 2,000 commonly used Chinese characters, the capacity of this part will not exceed 10KB. In terms of fonts, there are slightly more, referring to the technology of Wang Xuan, who switched from English to Chinese, if the font is not particularly fancy, the glyph of more than 2,000 characters can also be compressed to less than 50KB.

Three or four years ago, when we made the Adventure Island game cartridge, the storage capacity of a card was 512KB, and with the current cartridge capacity of more than 1M, this redundancy can still be squeezed out. ”

Many people think that a Chinese character is only two bytes, but this only means that under the premise of having a font library, the correspondence code is only two bytes. And the font itself is not enough.

As for the font, because it involves the dot matrix of the display pixels, or at least the pixel dot matrix that stores a single stroke, and the correspondence, the capacity will be a little more complicated - the "Founder Font" in later generations is not the same as the marketing master of the legal department like the visual ZG, just know it.

These R&D are all things that can be used after being made, and even if you don't use them to touch porcelain, it is worth investing in yourself.