The place where Li Xuan met Hermann Hauser was in the office of Akon Company. Unlike Currie, who was slightly fat, Hauser was a personable English gentleman who was very enthusiastic about taking Li Xuan on a tour of his company.

In fact, there is nothing to visit in Aikang, just a few offices. Aikang's computer production is outsourced to cooperative factories, and the real core of the company is more than a dozen researchers. In the general manager's office of Hauzer, there is a row of display cases against the wall, which displays all the signal computer objects that Aikang has developed since its establishment.

"The first computer we opened in our company was called System1, and this is the first prototype I made myself!" Hauser said with a smile, pointing to a small and delicate computer in the window, his tone full of pride.

Well, small and delicate is just Li Xuan's beautiful words, this is actually a simple 8-bit microcomputer. The whole machine is composed of two bare boards, one board contains the LED display, keyboard and tape interface, and the other board contains the CPU and other computer components.

It's not pretty, but it's cheap, and when it went public early last year, Akon set the price of £65 for bulk parts and £75 for assembled finished products. Relying on the low price, as soon as this system1 was unveiled, it was sought after by many amateur computer enthusiasts, allowing Aikang to grab the first pot of gold.

Akon may be the first company in the UK to implement computer intranet, Andy Hopper, after joining Akon, immediately began to build a dedicated local area network for the company, named enetbsp; Hopper is a very interesting person, and while Li Xuan was having a pleasant conversation with Hauser, he walked in wearing a Royal Air Force flight suit from World War II. He is an avid flyer and has just returned to the company after taking a pilot training course in a propeller aircraft.

Hopper's conversation was very humorous, and he personally demonstrated to Li Xuan the various functions of the enetet network he designed for Aikang. The company's intranet undoubtedly makes the communication between researchers more convenient and can effectively improve work efficiency.

Li Xuan and Hopper exchanged many topics about local area networks, such as two very popular non-public network standards in the industry, Token Ring and aRneteT, such as the famous Ethernet technology.

"The reason why I went to NETG when I was studying for my Ph.D. was because of the influence of Mr. Metcalfe. His essay on "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching Technology for Local Area Computer Networks" in the 76th Century gave me a lot of inspiration!

"Do you know why Hauzer poached me to Aikang?"

Hopper pointed to his friend and asked Li Xuan. Li Xuan shook his head cooperatively.

"At first, I thought he was taking a fancy to my skills and was very happy to come to work at Aikang. Unexpectedly, after he recruited me to the company, he asked me to be a sales manager!"

Hopper deliberately looked at Hauser with disdainful eyes, "The first thing this guy asked me to do was to go to the computer lab in Cambridge and sell System1 to my mentor and colleagues!

Li Xuan had a very pleasant communication with the two.

Elkan is a very young and dynamic company, and the eldest of the company's three shareholders, Hauzer, is only thirty-two years old, and Currie and Hopper are both only twenty-seven. The majority of the company's employees, including the three shareholders, are alumni of the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Aikan, Hopper was a PhD student at the University of Cambridge.

After Curry's attitude began to soften, Dongfang Electronics' acquisition of Aikang was officially launched. Li Xuan specially invited Standard Chartered Bank as the financial advisor for the merger and acquisition. After several rounds of verbal negotiations between the two sides, Dongfang Electronics finally bagged the computer company, which had just been established for a year and a half, with a price of 2.15 million pounds.

The first thing Dongfang Electronics did after completing the acquisition was naturally to appease its employees. Fortunately, the scale of Aikang is not large, even if Corporal Li Xuan Lixian personally had a deep conversation with every employee, it would not take much time. Combined with the policy of a 10% salary increase, the hearts of the people who were originally floating within Aikang quickly stabilized.

Among all the research engineers, Li Xuan undoubtedly paid the most attention to Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson. These two are the real designers of the aRm architecture, but now they are being preempted by Li Xuan. Naturally, he wanted to convince these two bulls to rejoin the work of Dongfang Electronics' eRm architecture.

Sophie Wilson is a somewhat special lady, well, she's actually transgender. Li Xuan also worked hard to speed up the research of the eRm architecture, although there was a trace of strangeness in his heart, he looked like nothing happened, and communicated with the other party amiably.

The new company needs to have a new atmosphere, and after being acquired by Dongfang Electronics, Aikang is not going to continue to squeeze into the two-story attic of the store pù along the street, but will look for a new office address in Cambridge Town. The new company will focus on the research of personal computers, and at the same time, Dongfang Electronics will set up a technical research center in Cambridge Town to focus on research in the fields of eRm architecture and LAN technology.

The Atom computer will continue to be on the market, and Akon will open a new personal computer based on the Atom. Because Dongfang Electronics' eRm architecture directly skips 16 bits, it is a 32-bit instruction set architecture.

After the eRm research is mature, Dongfang Electronics will directly start the 32-bit personal computer development plan. But in order to bridge the gap between 8-bit computers and 32-bit computers, there will be a compromise in the next step of Aikang's research plan.

Develop an 8-bit computer with great scalability to fill the gap in the company's 16-bit computer. The new PC will still use the 65O2 processor as the main CPU, but will add a dedicated interface that can expand the second processor. The main CPU does the work on the Io side, while the other processing tasks are left to the extended netbsp; At the same time, Dongfang Electronics began to communicate with the BBc broadcaster, hoping to cooperate in computer sales. In my previous life, it was because after the broadcast of the documentary "Powerful Microprocessing" that the BBc received a large number of calls from viewers asking about personal computers.

This gave the senior management of BBc the original intention of selling a suitable computer equipment to domestic PC enthusiasts. Initially, BBc set a sales target of 10,000 or 20,000 units for the computer, so it chose a small and unknown company as a partner. But no one guessed that the BBcmicro personal computer, which was specially customized by Akon, sold 15o million units throughout the eighties.

Since Li Xuan knew this story, he naturally would not give up this low-hanging fruit. Now that the BBc company's documentary has just been broadcast, and its influence has not yet spread, Dongfang Electronics has rushed to talk about cooperation.

Dongfang Electronics reached an agreement with BBc after reaching a series of cooperative promotion plans and giving BBc a good share of sales. Dongfang Electronics will launch a dedicated PC with reasonable configuration and low price within six months, and BBc will fully cooperate with the promotion of this new PC in the UK.

Of course, the name of the new computer will definitely not be BBcmicro anymore, and Dongfang Electronics will naturally not give up the opportunity to promote its brand so well. The name of the new computer will definitely be anet-best, which is a good name.

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