Maybe it was because Zhang Lexing had a very good appetite for Mr. Yang when he met for the first time, or maybe his performance during this period of time satisfied the old man, in short, after Dr. Yu put forward the idea of starting a business in the United States, Mr. Yang seemed very open-minded, and did not use his authority to stay in trouble, and happily agreed to Yang Xinxin to go to the United States.

After the company's future CEO is determined, the next thing will require Zhang Lexing to work together. Dr. Yu flew to the United States to inquire about IBM's new machines, and then dealt with the transfer of software rights and was responsible for the preparatory work for the establishment of the company. Yang Xinxin stayed in Hong Kong to be responsible for leaving the country, in fact, the most troublesome thing to go to the United States was Zhang Lexing, a minor from China, but fortunately, the Yang family has a wide range of connections, and there are still some ways to solve it. And Zhang Lexing resumed his life at two o'clock every day, one point in the comic studio, and the other point in Yang Xinxin's house, in addition to making some preparations for going to the United States, Zhang Lexing's main energy is still on the comic studio, after all, there will be no energy to come over for a long time in the future. In order to make the Kunpeng Animation Communication Co., Ltd. in preparation have better development prospects, Zhang Lexing left the story drafts of several best-selling comics in his impression, and of course, more importantly, left a list of future Japanese comics industry.

In Zhang Lexing's nervous and excited anticipation, the procedures for going to the United States were finally completed. On Children's Day, June 1, 1981, Yang Xinxin and Zhang Lexing took a plane to the United States, and as soon as they walked out of the passenger passage of San Jose International Airport, they saw Dr. Yu and a tall foreigner pestle there like two dumb geese, holding a large sign with the names "Yang Xinxin and Zhang Lexing" written in Chinese.

"Doctor, do you have a car?" Zhang Lexing pointed to the mountain of luggage dragging behind him, and smiled bitterly: "It's not easy for women to go out. ”

Yang Xinxin couldn't help but pursed her lips and glanced at Zhang Lexing.

"The car is a little ahead," Dr. Yu looked at the height of the luggage mountain and sighed, "But it is not easy to fit like this." ”

While the foreigner was diligently helping with the luggage, I asked Dr. Yu, "What does this brother do?"

"Oh, this is the first employee the company hires, named Dennis. It's still too busy for a few of us alone, and it's better to have a local to help. Dr. Yu explained, "The company has been set up, and the name is VisualSystem, so we can go and see the office building we just rented later." ”

We were a group of four plus two cars (we had to rent another car because we had too much luggage to fit), and drove towards the company's office building. After driving for more than an hour, the car stopped in front of a small three-story building, which Dr. Yu said was the company's office building. From the outside, Zhang Lexing felt that the building looked a little old, but after following Dr. Yu in, he found that the inside was still very clean and tidy.

"This building used to be a student dormitory for a nearby university, and then it was converted into an office building for rent, and the rent is quite low, and we rented half of the first floor this time, which is enough for a while. I have already discussed with the school that in the future, when the company is bigger, we can rent the rest of the place, and when the scale is bigger, we can find a better place. Dr. Yu said, "At present, there are only four of us, and we have also found a janitor, but some technicians will come for an interview tomorrow, so it is better for you to take care of it." ”

Then the car was transferred to Dr. Yu's house, and Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin temporarily lived in the guest room downstairs, and then moved after finding a suitable house. After dinner, Zhang Lexing and Dr. Yu sat on the sofa and chatted, and the main topic was, of course, related to IBM.

IBM was first formed in 1911 by the merger of the International Time Recording Company, the Slide Rule Company and the Tabulating Machine Company, and was still known as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R Company). It was not until 1924 that C-T-R changed its name to International Business Machines, which became known as IBM. Since the 70s, IBM's development has begun to slow down, and it has suffered defeats in DEC (Digital Equipment Company) and Wang An, and IBM did not pay attention to it when the microcomputer rose. As a result, IBM's net profit grew negatively in 1979, which was the first time in IBM's history, and at the same time, the microcomputer, which was once regarded as a toy, developed rapidly, especially the popular Apple machine, which made IBM very covetous. In this context, IBM launched its own microcomputer research and development program, and IBM's president Kari also gave the program a code name - "checkers".

In fact, Dr. Yu did not have any acquaintances in IBM, and it was impossible to inquire about such a plan, but fortunately, Intel, which was responsible for providing the CPU in IBM's checkers program, was an important collaborator.

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Estlic was the head of the checkers project, but now he didn't have the same spirit as when he first took over the team, and all that was left was anger in his heart, and he had to force his anger to tune the damn DOS operating system, just hoping that the shit would run reliably for a few more minutes. At the thought of this, Estlic couldn't help but slam his fist on the desk, and then he immediately began to rejoice - fortunately, the desktop was not too hard.

At first, Estlic even considered using IBM's own 801 processor and the operating system from the Highland Research Institute, but the chilling "high efficiency" and extremely tight design cycle of IBM's bureaucrats made him quickly abandon this idea. Due to the tight pressure from the top and the inability of IBM to provide it on time, Estlic had to take extraordinary measures, a method that violated IBM's tradition - to use accessories that could be bought directly from outside as much as possible, and even the operating system had to be outsourced.

Initially, Estlic was very optimistic about the popular CP/M operating system, and of course he was interested in the Kylin system, which became popular with VisualForm, but he couldn't find a developer at all, so he had to pin his hopes on CP/M. The group rushed to the Digital Institute in Monterrey to talk to Gary Kildare and try out his CP/M system. However, when IBM's negotiators came to the door, they learned that the boss of the digital research company had gone out to run errands, and it was unknown when he would return. IBM's negotiators were so angry that they had made an appointment, but Kildare had run away! In desperation, they had to talk to Gary's wife, the assistant to the boss of the digital research company at the time.

It's just that the checkers plan is top secret at IBM and no one is allowed to leak it, so IBM's negotiators asked Mrs. Gary to sign a non-disclosure agreement before the conversation, promising that the contents of the conversation would not be leaked in the slightest. Mrs. Gary naturally didn't have a good temper when she didn't know anything, because as soon as she signed this agreement, she agreed to keep everything the IBM people said confidential, and the IBM people also had the right to use any information that the signatories said, and she immediately refused to sign it.

Luckily, Kildare returned and decided there was no need to delay business over a non-disclosure agreement, so he reopened negotiations with IBM. However, due to IBM's urgent request, Kildare was not sure that it would be able to complete the deadline, but he still introduced the overall functions and scope of application of the CP/M-86 (a 16-bit version of CP/M) under development to IBM. IBM was very interested, but he didn't expect Kildare to go on vacation with his wife again, and Kildare, who was having a lot of fun, actually forgot to contact IBM again. IBM just can't wait. Coupled with the experience of this time, they were very skeptical of the sincerity of the digital research company, and IBM, who had no choice, had to find another way.

In this way, IBM's operating system acquisition plan failed completely, and he had no choice but to find another way out, and it was at this moment that Bill came to the door. Estlic still remembers the seemingly harmless smiling face of the liar Bill, who swears that his friend has a unique operating system that can run on any machine with a slight modification, and that it can be very cheap as long as IBM promises to make him a supplier.

In fact, Estlic is still a little uneasy about the small company of the hairy boy Bill, but Ax, the new chairman of the company, said: "Isn't this the company opened by Bill, the son of Mary Gates?"

With IBM's procurement commitment, Bill Gates was ecstatic, although he didn't even have a shadow of the operating system in his hand now, but it didn't matter, he didn't have anything to go out and find. Not to mention, maybe Microsoft is going to run for time, the company's No. 2 person, Paul Allen, really found an operating system in Seattle that imitates CP/M, QDOS, and it looks good, so he paid $75,000 for this operating system, and by the way, he also kidnapped the developer Patterson back.

When the IBM prototype came out, Bill Gates led a group of students to adapt the system, and a few weeks later came up with a set of programs that were generally operational, named DOS. Just a few weeks is not enough time to complete any innovation, so that the system is almost a copy of CP/M, and even the commands are plagiarized. What's even more annoying is the endless BUGS, so that Estlic has to personally lead a group of people to help Microsoft catch bugs, so that the checkers project team is about to become Microsoft's development team.

Estlic was puzzled that Microsoft's DOS system was not very big, but when he used it, it was like a treasure chest of bugs, and whenever he thought he had almost caught the bugs, his desk would be filled with new bug reports. Looking at the BUG report, which had reached 333, Estlic's heart was only helpless. In fact, Estlic did not want to postpone the date of the hardware launch, but the officials of IBM disagreed, and repeatedly emphasized that the completion date of the plan could not be changed, and the products of the checkers program must be launched on time, and he had no choice but to do so.

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