Andy Rubin rang the doorbell, and it was Zhang Chen, who was wearing an apron and white face, who opened the door.

"Andy, I'm sorry, I'm cooking, I can't shake hands, come in and sit. Zhang Chen naturally let Andy Rubin into the living room, as if the other party was an old friend for many years, but in fact, this was the first time the two met.

Zhang Chen's attitude made Andy Rubin also relaxed, although he did not have social phobia, he was not very good at dealing with people.

Andy Rubin looked around curiously, the house is not too big, and Zhang Chen's billionaire identity is not very matched, but the interior is very warm, the floor-to-ceiling windows are pasted with red stickers with openwork patterns, and there is also a small red sticker on each door, on which an unknown Chinese is written.

Oh, by the way, they all believe in communism, and the color of communism is red.

The TV is on, and it seems that a group of Chinese people are standing in a row singing, and they can't understand what they are singing, but the melody is not bad, but the rhythm is a little too slow, slower than a country ballad.

In addition to Zhang Chen, there was also a middle-aged Chinese man with an apron in the living room, who was also full of flour and looked at himself curiously.

Andy Rubin smiled slightly awkwardly and nodded, and the middle-aged man smiled kindly.

The Chinese are so weird, Andy Rubin said in his heart.

Zhang Chen glanced at the TV and said to Zhang Guoqiang: "It's unforgettable to sing tonight, I'm really not used to watching the Spring Festival Gala during the day, and it's still a live broadcast." ”

Zhang Guoqiang shook his head: "Your mother got up at five o'clock in the morning, just to watch the Spring Festival Gala." ”

Zhang Chen shook his head with a smile, turned his head to Andy Rubin and said, "Andy, today is the day before the Chinese New Year, and it is also the most traditional and grand festival in China. This is my father, he doesn't speak English, and I say hello to you on his behalf. Happy New Year!"

Andy Rubin suddenly remembered that he seemed to hear such a sentence when listening to the radio in the car this morning, saying that tomorrow was the Chinese New Year or something, but at that time, his mind was not on the radio at all, and he didn't pay attention.

Andy Rubin also smiled: "Happy New Year, your father looks young. ”

Zhang Chen laughed and translated Andy Rubin's words to Zhang Guoqiang, who was a little embarrassed to hear it.

Andy Rubin felt that Zhang Chen and Zhang Guoqiang were quite friendly, and the atmosphere of home also made him a little familiar, "Are you cooking? Chinese food? I like Chinese food, Zuo Zongtang chicken, tangerine peel chicken." ”

Zhang Chen laughed and said: "What we are making now is dumplings, do you know dumplings? In Huaxia, this kind of food is eaten every year on the day before the New Year and on the first day of the New Year. ”

Andy Rubin nodded: "I saw it when I went to eat at a Chinese restaurant, but I didn't eat it." ”

Zhang Chen said while rolling the skin: "Okay, you can eat here at noon today and try the real Chinese dumplings." ”

Andy Rubin grimaced.

Zhang Chen smiled: "Don't worry, there are no strange ingredients in it, the dumplings I ate today are vegan, I am making the skin of dumplings now, do you want to try it?"

Andy Rubin put his mind at ease, and saw Zhang Chen skillfully and quickly use a wooden stick to press the small dough into round sheets, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and said in surprise: "It's amazing, aren't these dumpling wrappers pressed out by a machine?"

Zhang Chen saw that the dumpling skin was almost rolled, and said to Zhang Guoqiang: "It should be about the same, right? There are few of us, and we can't eat if we roll too much, so I'll go to entertain friends and talk about something first." ”

Zhang Guoqiang nodded understandingly, "You're busy with yours, it's rude to let people wait here." ”

Zhang Chen smiled, washed his hands, and untied his apron. Hold out your right hand to Andy Rubin: "Hello Andy, I'm Zack." Let's go to the study and talk. ”

Andy Rubin followed Zhang Chen to the study, the layout was just as simple, the only special thing was the desk in the room, not the traditional boss desk, but a square table, boxy, about one meter eight in length, which looked very large.

There was a laptop on the table, and in the middle of the table was a small tea tray made of bamboo and wood, with two glasses on it, and a small electric stove next to the tea tray with an iron kettle on it.

Zhang Chen turned on the electric stove, boiled water and made tea.

Andy Rubin took a sip of the teacup as Zhang Chen did, slightly bitter and sweet.

Zhang Chen put down the teacup, "Andy, you used to develop an operating system for a while when you were at Apple, right?"

Andy Rubin was a little nervous: "Yes, I worked at Apple for four years as a system developer, developing an operating system for one of Apple's mobile devices, but then the project was terminated. ”

Zhang Chen nodded: "What do you think of the NeXTstep system that Jobs is developing?"

Andy Rubin thought for a moment: "I saw the first version of this system in '93, and I wasn't very impressed at the time. The system is too bloated, the underlying code is too complex to design, and it runs inefficiently, as if to deliberately bypass Intel support. It is said that in 95 Jobs stopped the development of this version, and the current NeXTstep has only been rewritten in the past two years, and it should be rebuilt with netBSD as the underlying core, and it is said that it will be released at the end of August this year, but I am not very optimistic. ”

Zhang Chen asked, "Why?"

Andy Rubin explains, "netBSD hasn't been around for long, and NeXTstep itself has rewritten its core code because of netBSD. Now that Apple has acquired NeXT, it is not possible to complete the NeXTstep system into its own Mac OS in a short period of time, although the workload of this part is less than writing a system by itself, but it will take at least a year to convert the data interface, adjust the UI, and convert the code. So, the chances of Apple being able to launch a new MacOs this fall are low. ”

Andy Rubin didn't understand what Zhang Chen meant by asking him questions about the operating system, and the only thing he cared about now was how much money Artemis would get paid in Matrix after it was acquired by Matrix.

As for what kind of work he does, Andy Rubin doesn't care at all, anyway, his interest is not to work, as long as he has a salary, it would be best to be able to support the research he is interested in.

Andy Rubin thought that this was an interview with Zhang Chen, so he tried his best to show his professional ability and gave detailed answers to several questions asked by Zhang Chen.

Although he didn't care much about what he would do in Matrix in the future, Zhang Chen's series of questions about the operating system still aroused Andy Rubin's strong interest.

Could it be that Matrix wanted to develop the operating system himself? As soon as the idea came up, Andy Rubin himself vetoed it.

No way, how can there be a company doing research on operating systems? As long as the managers of this company are not crazy, it is impossible to do this kind of useless work.

But after this thought appeared, it was like a small hand that kept stirring in Andy Rubin's heart, making him unconsciously full of hope and began to suffer from gains and losses.

This is an operating system, the ultimate dream of programmers.

Just when Andy Rubin couldn't help but want to ask Zhang Chen why he asked so many questions about the operating system, Zhang Chen said: "Andy, if you are asked to be responsible for the development of a desktop-level commercial operating system, pay attention, it is a commercial operating system, tell me your ideas." ”

Andy Rubin's heart was shocked, and he lost his voice: "Really? Matrix wants to develop its own operating system?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "Before answering you, you need to sign a confidentiality agreement. With that, Zhang Chen took out a piece of paper from the folder that had been placed on the desk and handed it to Andy Rubin.

"All the conversations we have here today are protected by non-disclosure agreements, and you will only know the details after you sign them, but if you leak any of the conversations, you will also be subject to severe sanctions, you take a closer look. Zhang Chen said.

Andy Rubin's curiosity has swelled to the limit, and it's just a non-disclosure agreement, and he signed a lot when he was at Apple.

Therefore, Andy Rubin only glanced at it a few times, and then took the pen on the table and signed his name.

(End of chapter)