With the development of semiconductor technology and the rapid development of microcomputers, workstation computers will soon replace the current position of small computers in the next decade.

As IBM will soon open up its technical standards, the future PC market will become a completely transparent and free competition market, and with fierce competition, profit margins will continue to decline.

Therefore, in Li Xuan's plan, the R&D focus of Aikang in the field of personal computers will gradually shift to the development of mobile computers, that is, laptops. Because in this field, no company learns from IBM and completely opens up its own standards. So, you've never heard of a consumer who can assemble a laptop by himself.

In contrast, the more expensive workstation computer market is much more profitable, which is the area that Aikang Computer will focus on in the future. Dongfang Electronics laid out in advance and cooperated with Stanford University to develop commercial processors based on MIPS architecture, and Li Xuan aimed at the future workstation market.

After Li Xuan replied to Professor Hennessy's email, he began to eat rock sugar bird's nest at the urging of Zhong Chuhong.

"You put so much effort into connecting this computer at home to the Internet, what else can you do besides being able to send and receive emails?" Zhong Chuhong asked curiously, he had been with Li Xuan for a long time, and he knew more about computers.

Li Xuan's technical trench is not the same as what other rich people play. Other Hong Kong tycoons buy famous cars and yachts, and they can spend millions of dollars in order to vote for a special license plate, but Li Xuan doesn't care about these at all. In order to allow the Li family villa on the top of Taiping Peak to also have access to the network, he specially asked the Hong Kong telephone company to pull over a fiber optic line, and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for this without even blinking.

In fact, the fact that the Dongfang real room is connected to the ARPANET is not a small controversy within Dongfang Electronics. Because the current APA network is not very mature, as for Li Xuan's reason for facilitating communication between the company's various R&D centers around the world, it has also been refuted, because fax can completely replace the immature email, but Li Xuan still acted arbitrarily and decided to access APANET.

The Hong Kong Telephone Company has not yet begun to lay optical fiber throughout Hong Kong, and Dongfang Electronics has tasted it again, not only pulling up optical fiber lines between Dongfang Electronics headquarters and the real yàn room, but also funding the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Chinese and the Polytechnic to use optical fiber to connect to the Internet. Moreover, there were no submarine cables in this era, and if the nodes of the Oriental Real Yàn Room wanted to connect to the Apa network in the United States, they had to transmit it through Guò satellites, which was a lot of money.

Therefore, in order to build the entire project, Li Xuan invested 2 million US dollars, equivalent to 10 million Hong Kong dollars, which is enough for him to buy another villa in Taiping Mountain. And then the entire networked system, the annual maintenance fee will be millions of Hong Kong dollars. It can only be said that he, a local tyrant, is too high-end, so that those rich people who buy luxury cars and mansions are embarrassed.

"Of course, I can do something else, show you something fun!" Li Xuan said with a smile, after speaking, he kept tapping on the keyboard with both hands, entering various commands and commands, "Let you see how people who don't sit together play games together!"

Li Xuan quickly took control of the computer and logged into an electronic bulletin board system, yes, an electronic bulletin board, which has a more widely known name called BBS. The BBS Forum in China was most popular in the 90s, and it actually appeared in Chicago in 1978 and was invented by two computer enthusiasts. Later, they introduced their invention in Bit magazine, and the electronic bulletin board system became popular in the United States in the late seventies.

Since Li Xuan connected the University of Hong Kong, CUHK and the School of Science and Engineering, he simply came up with the BBS forum that almost every domestic university had in later generations. Of course, he didn't have time to do it himself, but solicited design proposals from the students of the three schools in the name of Dongfang Shiyàn Room.

Finally, under the auspices of the Oriental Real Room, it took more than two months to integrate a number of excellent programs of the students majoring in electronic computing from the three universities, and a forum called the Oriental Pearl Forum was finally established, and the server of the forum was placed in the computer room of the Oriental Real Room.

Since the launch of the Pearl of the Orient Forum, the total number of registrations has exceeded 500, and almost all students and teachers of related majors in the three schools, as well as most of the researchers of Dongfang Electronics Company, have registered their own accounts on the forum.

The content on the forums is not very rich, and most of the topics are discussions about various technologies. Not long ago, there was another interesting thing on the forum, which attracted everyone's ideas. This is something called mud made up by several middle school students, the full name is called multipleuserdialogue, translated into Chinese called multi-person dialogue system, and there is a more affectionate name called "mud" in China in the nineties.

Of course, having said all this, many people may still be in the clouds, in fact, it is the earliest online game, or rather the earliest text online game. This thing has been appearing abroad as early as last year. Li Xuan also didn't know where these CUHK students got the relevant technical materials, and they relied on the Pearl of the Orient Forum to set up a "quagmire" with martial arts as the background.

In his previous life, when Li Xuan was in college, this kind of text online game had already declined, and he had only heard some legends, such as Peking University had a very popular game called "Peking University Heroes". Of course, it's not easy for ordinary people to play this thing, at least you have to have some programming knowledge, because this kind of mud game is all played by entering commands.

Li Xuan took out a piece of paper from the drawer, on which dozens of command codes were written. This is what Li Xuan just got his hands on a few days ago, the game is still in the development stage, he has only tried it twice before, although there are no gorgeous pictures and a variety of dazzling skills, but wandering in a line of text, there is also a different kind of fun.

I saw Li Xuan enter a line of command, and a line of text immediately appeared on the screen: "The moonlight is like water, you sit quietly by the lake and breathe, the family heirloom internal strength method runs for a big week, and suddenly highlights a breath of turbidity, and suddenly feels refreshed (experience +100)......"

Li Xuan typed another order, and another line of text appeared on the screen: "You use a simple tap of your feet to climb the cloud ladder, and suddenly climb the branch of a hundred-year-old camphor tree......

"It's funny!" Li Xuan turned his head and smiled at his girlfriend.

"Someone's attacked you!" Zhong Chuhong suddenly pointed to the screen and whispered.

Li Xuan immediately turned his head, only to see an extra line of text on the screen: "You were ruthlessly attacked by the masked swordsman Sima who had long been hiding in the tree, and his Ice Spirit Cold Light Sword slashed through your chest, making you bleed more than (-100 HP)......"

Before Li Xuan could enter the order to fight back, a row of text appeared again on the screen in a flash: "Sima Ruthless once again ruthlessly waved the sword in his hand mercilessly, stabbed you in the left chest, and you fell into a state of serious injury." Sima ruthlessly flashed a grim smile at you...... (-150 HP)"

Well, Li Xuan hasn't reacted yet, his first online PK has ended, and the character he accused zhì "Jianghu Xiaoxiaosheng" died of excessive blood loss. Of course, the main reason for this is that Sima Ruthless, who attacked him, has five levels, and his Jianghu Xiaoxiao Sheng only has two levels, and his blood volume is only 300, and the opponent's three swords come down, and Li Xuan kneels.

"You're so useless!" Zhong Chuhong said with a chuckle, making Li Xuan feel quite embarrassed, he decided to find someone to help him improve his level, and next time he must find this Sima Wuzhi for revenge.

"But it looks interesting!" Zhong Chuhong said again.

"Do you want to play? I'll teach you!"

"It's difficult, isn't it? I don't know how to use computers!" Zhong Chuhong said with some hesitation.

"It's not difficult to be a leader!"

So throughout the afternoon, Li Xuan sat in front of the computer with Zhong Chuhong, asking her how to input various commands.

In fact, whether it is the Pearl of the Orient BBS forum or this MUD text online game that is still being tested, they will not see their profit prospects for a long time. But Li Xuan was still happy and was willing to invest money to support. Because he knows that the current Qiē is laying the foundation for the future, and the lake that was originally calm has made a little wave under his influence, and one day it will make the tide surge.

In fact, Li Xuan's impact is not only on the Internet and computers, according to the latest survey by Dongfang Electronics, in recent months, six new small companies have emerged in Hong Kong to develop arcade games.

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