Chapter 42 To the Beer Lid
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When receiving the express this morning, as the nanny of all the company's eighty percent employees and the "mother" of more than 50 programmers, Lu Bao routinely took over all the trivial matters, including the unpacking of the express.
Only this time the delivery was a little different, it was not a breakfast milk ordered on a regular basis, and it was not a bundle of toilet paper or office supplies, but a box of tapes.
Anyone who knows anything about computers knows that computer data is stored on tape. Although four years ago, two former IBM employees founded a company called Seagate to develop a 5.25-inch 5MB hard drive, which made this kind of guy the size of two refrigerators practical when it was originally born. But until now, tape has remained the mainstay of storage.
So, after realizing that it was just a cassette tape, Lubao was surprised that it was only one box, and not a bulk purchase for office supplies, but still routinely put it with other tapes.
It stands to reason that things don't happen too quickly, because although the tape is "in stock" now, since it is treated as office supplies - no one will wait for them to run out - it will not be used immediately.
But coincidentally, it was Paul Allen himself, and the computer tape he was using had a malfunction, so in order to save time, he casually stuffed the tape into the computer.
Then, as one of the top programmers in the world, he was completely shocked.
The contents of the tape were apparently encrypted, and only Alan was presented with an executor, and when he opened it, he found that it was actually an operating system installer!
"Yes, an operating system, Bill, you see for yourself. ”
I saw that on Allen's computer screen, the familiar, pitch-black, and white English letter DOS interface was not there, and what I saw was an extremely beautiful color pattern interface. With the intuitive feeling brought by the pattern, Gates instantly understood the function of several of the icons at a glance.
"Program Manager, Calendar, Business Card, Notepad, Terminal, Calculator, Clock, Control Panel, PIF Editor, Print Spooler, Clipboard, RAM Driver, WordPad, Paint, Hmmm...... And the Othello game game!?"
It's not just the novel interface, but at the same time as it is used, Gates has noticed that this "operating system" obviously needs to be operated with a mouse. It's also thanks to Apple's 'Lisa' launched last year that comes standard with a new type of mouse, and Microsoft, as a research on competitors' products, of course bought some, otherwise now, I'm afraid I won't be able to use this "operating system"!
"It's an operating system, that's right, Paul, it's an operating system!"
After just a split second, Gates immediately realized the strength of this product. Just like Windows 1.0, which they are working on, using GUI technology, that is, the interface of a graphical interface system, the average user has reached the level of part-time operation of the computer.
An icon is a function, and the function name is displayed below the icon, and the icon itself can more intuitively indicate its own function. It can be said that unless the user is a brain-dead child with a low IQ, anyone can use and master them as quickly as possible!
Fortunately, Gates is still a sane guy, and after a moment of surprise, he immediately came back to his senses: "You just said that others have researched ...... Isn't that the name of our own product? What do you mean?"
Alan didn't speak, first looked at his colleagues with strange expressions, Gates noticed everyone's strange expressions, seemed to understand something, and immediately operated the mouse not very skillfully and opened the system page.
Microsoft-Windows1.0-by-Alice-Wong
The snow-white characters were displayed on the blue background screen, and Gates blinked violently, his face twitching. Around him, everyone in the audience remained silent, waiting to see how the company's CEO would react.
Gates pulled off his glasses: "Who is this Alice-Wang? Have any of you heard of her?"
"I haven't heard of it, but the other party is in the system information...... Left a letter for you, boss. Yes Bill, it's signed to you. ”
This is okay, Gates quickly found the so-called letter in the computer. At this moment, the new operating system once again showed its superiority, Gates only tentatively opened the notepad, and sure enough, an icon in the shape of a letter appeared in the dialog box.
"A Letter to Bill Gates?"
Seeing the name of the file, Gates couldn't help but laugh and cry, which reminded him of an interesting story from his middle school days.
When Gates was still at Lakeside Middle School, the school already had the opportunity to give students the opportunity to play with computers. But at the time, it was definitely a niche pastime, and the boarding fee in the computer room was not usually expensive, and even if Gates had a good family, he didn't have that much money to spend on it.
Therefore, in order to be able to play with Allen to his heart's content, Gates had to do a hacking act himself, successfully hacked into the core part of the computer, and modified the user payment list!
Of course, when the school found out, he was naturally punished......
Seeing the title of such a letter now, it really can't help but remind him of his younger self.
Then he began to read.
"To the beer lid. ”
Seeing the first line, Gates was a little confused. His real name is William Henry Gates, and Bill is a nickname, which many people know, so if someone calls himself by any nickname, he is not unacceptable.
But he couldn't figure out how his name had been changed to "Beer-Capsule", and what was the basis for the person who gave the nickname?
Let's read on.
"When you read this letter, you must have felt shocked now, shouldn't Microsoft-Windows 1.0 be by-Bill-Gates?
That's because, of course, these dozens of engineers at Microsoft are too stupid, too inefficient, and too poor, and they are simply otaku who don't work on a salary and wait for six o'clock to go home and hug their wives. No, few of you programmers have wives, so ...... Ahem, okay, that's a long way off, let's get down to business. ”
In the first two paragraphs, Gates clearly found two words that he didn't quite understand. One Otaku seems to be in Japanese, and you can look it up when you look it up, but the other program-ape (program ape) is really inexplicable.
Ignore and keep looking down.
"Anyway, because you're too stupid and I'm too smart, I made Windows 1.0 for you. The one you're seeing now is a trial version, and it's automatically uninstalled after 24 hours of installation, and I'm sure you won't be able to get much source code in that amount of time at the level of dozens of fools.
So, Mr. Capsule, call my Royal-Hotline in Los Angeles. On behalf of all employees of Cisco Systems, we are willing to have a cross-era global strategic cooperation alliance negotiation meeting with Microsoft Corporation. Now pick up the phone and call the hotline, and there will be a beautiful gift worth $999, so fast~"
At this point in the content of the short letter, Gates sat stupidly in front of the computer, for a long time, but could not say a word.
"The other party shouldn't be joking. ”
In the end, it was Paul Allen who broke the peace: "But the person who left the message should not be of a big grade, otherwise he would not use this way of speaking, I estimate that he should not be more than twenty-five years old, and he is very childish." ”
A programmer said, "Paul, do you mean that there is a genius girl who is better than all of us and has invented an operating system by himself?"
"Yes, yes, this is a computer operating system, and it already comes with a lot of features, it's not just a single program. If only there was a young man as powerful...... Are we really idiots?"
"No matter how talented you are, there must be a limit, right? Our Microsoft is also the top computer company in the industry, and more than 50 engineers have not solved problems for several months, but they have been solved by one person, isn't this a joke!?"
For a time, the whole company was boiling, where did everyone accept this situation? And the programmer didn't know for what purpose, he really put the name of Microsoft on the system, is this an infringement?
Cisco Systems...... A name I haven't heard of. ”
Finally, Gates spoke, and the moment he spoke, the audience suddenly fell silent: "Ballmer, you immediately check the situation of this company for me, if you can." As for everyone's opinion......"
A smile hung up on the corners of his mouth, and Gates lifted his glasses again.
“…… Don't forget, at the age of thirteen, I was able to hack into my school computer computer with the completely self-taught Basic language. Computers have always been a field of geniuses, as long as you have enough IQ, excellent scientific thinking, and superb mathematical ability, let alone compare to you, even if you are more powerful than me, what can't you not?"
"I remember the call, I'll call, Alice-Wang, yes, I really look forward to it. ”
Looking at the white font on the blue screen, Gates smiled confidently, and a handsome evil aura seemed to emerge from him.
In silence, Ballmer patted Allen on the shoulder.
"Look at what he just said, our boss is really narcissistic. ”
Alan smacked his lips.
"You just know?"