Chapter 7: We Are the Legendary Founders
The man was a young man in a suit and leather shoes, probably in his early thirties, followed by a beautiful, neatly dressed woman, who was obviously his wife. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Alice was surprised, "Uh...... So to speak, who are you?"
The man smiled politely: "I take the liberty of it, my name is Leonardo Bossak, this is my wife Santi, we work in the computer department of Stanford University, and we just understand some of what you just said." Ah, yes, sorry for eavesdropping on the conversation between the two of you, but kid, what did you just say...... Is it the operating system?"
Although the other party introduced herself, Alice was still a little confused, she had just talked to her brother about the future, talked about computers, and immediately appeared a couple of computer science teachers at Stanford?
Wait, what's their name?
Which university are they teachers from?
Suddenly, a full hydrogen balloon swelled in Alice's heart.
If Heaven could give her a chance to be alone at once, Alice must shout and scream at the sky now.
It's really a feeling of being a dog.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Stepping on the trend of global Internet development, this company can be said to occupy all the time, place and people, and is a legendary enterprise!
It is precisely because of its remarkable achievements that after suddenly wanting to find something to do for herself recently, Alice immediately focused her thoughts on this field. After all, being idle is also idle, and the difficulty of making a router is still very low compared to making an operating system like Oscar's obsessiveness.
It's just that I didn't expect that I just made a related product last night, and now I will encounter ......
Who are these two?
Couldn't it be the legendary founder?
It shouldn't be so bloody, right?
Although I really don't know the founder of Cisco, I don't even know the exact time when the company was founded, so I can't visit the company with the same longing as I did for Bill Gates......
But there's no need to arrange a chance encounter between yourself and each other in a café, right?
God, that's a ......
"Oh, that's just Oscar's casual remark. ”
Can't wait, Alice hurriedly sat the couple, and it happened that this coffee table was prepared for four people: "I have computers from IBM and Apple at home, and I'm quite good at this field, so just now my brother joked, saying that I was planning to develop a computer's operating system by myself~"
Santi wore a beige trench coat, put her leather bag on her lap, and said with interest: "Buy two personal computers? God, it's a luxury, although computers have become miniaturized now, but the price is also quite high, and the Apple II computer is much more expensive than IBM's products." Could it be that your parents are computer enthusiasts?"
"They weren't, my sister was. ”
Oscar suddenly interjected: "When IBM first launched the first consumer user computer, Alice immediately pestered my parents to buy it. And then...... Anyway, she can understand what I do with the computer, and I don't understand what she types into the DOS system!"
Alice touched her nose silently, noncommittal to Oscar's emotion. For her, of course, playing with the DOS system is not a problem, not to mention that she has learned more advanced languages such as C+ in her previous life, and there are also Basic language teaching books on the market today. So, she doesn't have to be afraid to attract too much attention in this regard.
"What you can't understand...... Kid, you know how to code!?"
As an expert, of course, Bossak immediately realized what Oscar meant, and immediately looked at Alice in extreme surprise: "Have you written any qualified programs, such as an addition and subtraction calculator or something?"
Alice couldn't help but snort lightly, what a ridiculous thing in the world, the addition and subtraction calculator, was she bothered to write it?
"Actually, I'm working on a very advanced technology right now~"
She put her hands on the coffee table obediently, her fingers lightly clasped the tabletop, and the smile on her face was as sunny as spring flowers, not to mention the voice, which made Oscar shiver suddenly: "Did you know just now, I have two computers at home, so I'm now researching how to connect them together in the most convenient way." Well, you know what I mean?"
It can be said that Alice has done her best to put on the image of a normal twelve-year-old girl, so that her words do not seem so shocking. After all, her poor age is still too young, although Gates is not too big when he made the curriculum for his middle school alma mater, but he is still a middle school student.
But even so, she found that the listeners in their thirties were still frozen.
"Will ...... Multiple computers connected together?"
Leonardo Bossak looked at his wife, and Santi looked at him with the same surprise, and a brilliant golden light suddenly rose in their eyes.
Wouldn't the girl's little research in front of them coincide with their current topic?
Posack earned a bachelor's degree in 1973 and worked for a computer company before moving to Stanford University in 1979 to earn a master's degree in computer science, where he went straight to teaching. It was here that he met his former graduate student, his current fellow teacher, and his wife, Santi.
It's just that since the beginning of their relationship, there has been a trouble bothering them.
Bossak manages the computer science department at the school, while Santi manages the computer systems for the graduate school of business, and the two work on opposite ends of the spectrum at Stanford. They can send and receive email messages to each other through the school intranet, but their computers cannot be directly connected because they use different operating systems.
"At present, the network relay we use in the school intranet is an independent dedicated computer, which is huge in size and very expensive. ”
After giving a brief account of his situation, Bossak emotionally told Alice, "So we were thinking about how we could come up with a new device that could connect different types of networks, and in the simplest and cheapest way possible." If you really study this kind of relay, I think you should be able to think that this will definitely usher in a revolutionary change in the development of computer networks!"
Before Alice could speak, Santi followed up and said, "I really didn't expect you to be interested in this field. By the way, we don't know yet, are you?"
“…… Alice, Alice-Vivi-Wang, my father is Chinese, and my mother is of mixed English and French descent. ”
Alice took a deep breath: "Then may I ask Mr. Bosak, has there been a qualified product developed at ......present? Have you set up a company?"
Just when Alice's brain was a little confused, listening to her question, Bosak shook his head again and again, and said with a smile: "How can it be so powerful, this is not a simple job." As for the company, since our products have not yet been made, of course the company has not been established. ”
"But if we can make an instrument that can connect to different types of networks, and it's cheap and small enough, then we're going to have to start a company," Santi interjected. After all, if this kind of product really spreads, it can even bring huge changes to the whole world!"
"I agree with that. ”
Alice is 100% sure of this, the effect of the global Internet on the world's productive forces, which is obvious to all future generations: "Then Mr. and Mrs. Bossak ......"
"Just call us Leon and Santi, Alice. ”
"Well, then Leon, since you are a faculty member in the computer science department at Stanford, and you happen to be studying this, I have to tell you something......
Alice looked at her brother first, and sure enough, Oscar was smirking "I'm already a millionaire", and his eyes were staring at him eagerly.
It's still a kid after all, isn't it?,I just quarreled with myself this morning.,I was beaten up by the thugs again.,Now it seems that you've forgotten everything.。
sighed inwardly, and then, Alice looked at the curious Mr. and Mrs. Bossak and smiled shyly.
"I just made a small instrument a few days ago, and the functions you mentioned, it may have been realized!"
In her heart, Alice no longer knows how to describe her excitement, but she admits that the reason why she made a router at this time of year is not unrelated to knowing that Cisco will be established at the end of this year. She also had an idea, since she had made the router, shouldn't she also take some time to go to Stanford to meet the couple?
But who would have thought that God would send them to Himself by such coincidence!?
And the Posacks were completely stunned.
"Y-You're not kidding?"
Santi subconsciously said: "Do you know what you're talking about? This is computer network interconnection technology, and Iger, as a pioneer in this field, has been studying with us for so long, and it is only a half-finished product...... You actually say that you have made a similar product?"
Alice blinked.
Iggy, what, Iger, which Iger, is there a genius for Bill Gates?
Definitely not.
That's good, no matter who he is, he must not be a threat to himself.
"Our family lives in Culver City, Mrs. Posack, just ten minutes from this coffee shop. ”
Alice smiled with extreme ease, after all, the truth was in front of her, and the couple, although talented, was no threat to her.
"Opportunity is only reserved for those who can seize it, even if you doubt it in your heart, can't you spare ten minutes to confirm the authenticity?"