Programmers in the early days of the Republic, such as Yan Yuanchao, were not even from professional classes, after all, in the 70s, the country's higher education was almost chaotic, and it was difficult for college students at this time to have the opportunity to learn programming-related knowledge.

Looking at the legendary resume, in 73 years, he went to Huazhong Institute of Technology as a worker, peasant and soldier student to study mechanical and electrical engineering, and in terms of this higher education experience alone, it is impossible to be on the side of software and operating systems in any case.

However, the reason why the cow man is a cow is because his experience is not something that ordinary people can do, people can get started in the software industry and gradually become proficient only through self-study, and complete the research and development of the most landmark CCDOS Chinese character operating system in the personal computer industry of the Republic in 83 years, this alone is enough to laugh and integrate the industry.

Later, the so-called Qiu Bojun, Lei Monkey, and Ma Zhai Owner, these actually began to emerge in the 90s, and people usually think that this is the first generation of programmers in the Republic, but this is really the case, and I am afraid that it is still a little inappropriate to say.

The above statement does not seem to have calculated a great god like Yan Yuanchao in place, perhaps because these older generations are mainly pioneers, rather than heroes created by the current situation during the great development of the industry, and naturally many people are forgotten.

But in any case, those programmers of the Republic in the early 80s, such as Yan Yuanchao and Wang Yongming, were the real older generation, and the Great Wall, Ziguang, Sitong, and Jinshan at that time were the old software and hardware companies in the computer industry.

It is also very interesting to say that Boss Yan, as the god who developed the first Khan Xian operating system in the Republic, chose to make the program completely public, that is, he chose open source, which is the fundamental reason why many programmers hugged their thighs in the mid-to-late eighties to change CCDOS.

Wang Zhengguo doesn't know why he chose open source, maybe he thinks there is no need to make money from this, or maybe because CCDOS is funded by national ministries and commissions, and it should be shared by the broad masses of people across the country.

Anyway, CCDOS is open source, and the result is so awesome, and the boss is so open-minded. Thinking of these, Wang Zhengguo felt that it was still necessary for him to successfully find this person to talk to, and maybe he could gain something?

"The school should also have a related program development major, and the faculty can get by, right? Can you directly make the design on the basis of the program idea?"

At the end of the day, it is also a faculty of telecommunications engineering, even because it is located in the southwest, but it should have some ability related to program development.

Professor Bai naturally nodded in recognition of the requirements in this regard, and said directly: "The situation is probably like this, as for what kind of operating system our computers use, I think the professor should have heard of the CCDOS that was publicly exhibited in the imperial capital in August this year, and I think Mr. Yan Yuanchao, who developed this system, will definitely be able to solve the problems we are currently encountering." ”

The CCDOS operating system has been finalized as early as 83 years, and it has been publicly displayed in the imperial capital.

Knowing that Wang Zhengguo had this idea, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "I have heard of CCDOS you said, and there have been articles reporting on it before. ”

The operating system can only provide the most basic software running environment, and the computer should be able to achieve the predetermined functions, and after all, it is still a variety of professional software that plays a role.

A new operating system, which means that a variety of supporting software is needed to keep up, in this regard, there are almost few related supporting facilities in China to keep up, and in the end, I am afraid that we will have to cover the supporting software.

"On the problem of software, when the time comes, we will solve it together, our project is mainly for the office processing market, the software needed is not much, as long as it is professional and convenient, everything else is easy to say. ”

Wang Zhengguo plans to make this teaching computer for the office processing market, this is not hot-headed, considering that the personal computer market is almost pitiful in this year, even if this cheap computer is under development, it is expected that the terminal price will be about 1,000 oceans, such a sum of money, it is almost difficult to come up with a private person, even if it can be taken out, it is generally not ruthless to buy.

After all, this private person has money, and the traditional concept is that it is better to buy a TV, which is much more practical than a computer, at least in the eyes of ordinary people, and computers in the 80s are really not as entertaining as TVs.

Only for the enterprise and government markets will there be a way to live, these units have money, and there is an urgent need to simplify cumbersome office procedures.

General text and table processing, this will be the most cumbersome area of office tasks at present, and it is also the place where the most standardized office is needed.

To put it bluntly, the positioning of this educational computer is simple office processing, computer education science, and the hardware requirements are relatively low in some places, if you really want to do a lot of data processing, industrial auxiliary software operation, then you must lie down.

"How are you going to design the hardware? Integrate the relevant devices directly under the keyboard, or use the main chassis, keyboard, and display separation like IBM-PC?"

Two different solutions represent different development routes, integrating all devices into the keyboard, which is a compact route, slowly developing to the extreme, it will continue to become smaller and thinner, plus the power supply, LCD screen, it will naturally become a portable laptop.

The separation of equipment will be exchanged for more space to arrange more equipment, bringing naturally a larger volume and powerful performance, and will slowly develop into the desktop field.

According to Wang Zhengguo's expectations, he thinks it is more appropriate to take the laptop route, after all, it is office processing, and it is naturally portable-based, but it still depends on the meaning of the technical staff.

It was not Professor Bai who was responsible for the overall design of the 6502 computer, but another middle-aged man in his thirties, who had already planned for the industrial design of the computer.

"Personally, I think it's better to be able to do it directly according to the overall solution, the energy consumption of the 6502 is low, it can be used for compact design solutions, and the computer we plan to use does not need a dedicated monitor, when the time comes, it will be directly connected to the TV, which means that our computer can be used where there is a TV, so the design must be compact and portable. ”

It is foreseeable that with the listing of 6502 computers, it will inevitably bring great changes to the traditional office model, and the price of a thousand yuan may not be so easy to roll out in large quantities, so a computer must be used in multiple places, and portability requirements seem to be essential.

Perhaps the designers didn't consider the portability requirements of the computer's users, and they were just trying to take advantage of the hardware's inherent advantages, but Wang Zhengguo still thinks these developers are very good.

"If that makes sense, then do as you say, and design it with the requirements of compactness and portability. As for other aspects, I don't have much to say. If you think about any problems, raise them quickly, and I will start to solve them. ”