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The main reason why Bob Gucione and Donald Trump hit it off at Pebble Beach Golf Course Club is that the latter also has investments in the gambling city of Atlantic City, which runs a project called the Trump Plaza Hotel, which naturally provides a casino for tourists.

The Trump Plaza Hotel was built at about the same time as Bob Guccone's Loft Hotel, but because it was stuck in the gambling license, the former opened early, and Bob Guccone could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

However, Donald Trump is not satisfied with the profitability of the Trump Square Hotel, and is taking the rest of the shares from his partners and intends to go it alone, and one improvement is to expand the scale, and the Bob Gucioné project not far away has come into his eyes.

This pick-up man is very much in line with Bob Guccone's heart, so his gratitude to Tang Huan is also a little sincere, at least he recognizes that the deal to suppress Madonna's photo is worth it.

"As long as everyone has something to gain, this event I organized will be meaningful. After Tang Huan smiled and congratulated, they separated, and continued to do whatever they wanted.

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After changing into the equipment sent by Masako Wada in the hotel room, Tang Huan went to the stadium to socialize with the club members there - to put it bluntly, he used the aura of the richest man in the United States to raise the gold content of the event.

It just so happened that Earl Woods, whom Tang Huan specially ordered his subordinates to invite, was also there, so he met him by the way.

He is now a defense industry contractor agent and previously a U.S. Army Special Forces officer who served in the Vietnam War and learned to golf in 1972 while stationed at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York. And obsessed with the sport. And then he became an amateur player with a pretty good level.

Of course. Regardless of his status or level, Earl Woods is not qualified to participate in such high-end club activities, he borrowed the light of his son, that is, the famous little genius, Tiger Woods, who is ten years old this year.

Tiger Woods, who grew up in the Los Angeles area, was a true golf prodigy who knew how to play golf at the age of two, and at the age of three he appeared on the TV show "The MikeDouglas Show" with comedian Bob Hope Bob Hope At the age of 5, he began appearing in prestigious golf magazines, and in 1984, he won the World Championship in the junior category of 9 to 10 year olds at the JuniorWorld Championships. At that time, he was not yet 9 years old.

In such a well-dressed adult world. The addition of Tiger Woods, a very talented little kid, definitely adds a lot of color.

For this reason, Tang Huan also competed with Tiger Woods with great interest, which can be described as having a lot of fun.

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After a brief break at Pebble Beach Golf Course, Tang Huan was greeted by several important meetings, with the issue of the yen's appreciation, which has been the subject of much discussion this year.

Fangyuan Computer Company's supply chain is all over the world, and the market layout is also focused on the world, so it naturally attaches great importance to the impact of this possible change on the financial situation.

I have to say that this is a major manifestation of Tang Huan's leadership. In fact, he didn't specifically instruct his subordinates to investigate this issue at all. It is entirely a spontaneous act.

After all, Fangyuan Computer Company is a listed public enterprise, and there are many people staring at it. Tang Huan's little ninety-nine mainly fell in his private territory.

Listening to his subordinates discussing and assessing the impact of possible changes in international currency exchange rates on the company at the meeting, Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows and waved his hand: "Since I have said this, then I will show my attitude." Prepare for the worst and always buy yourself more space. First, we were prepared, second, the PR team was careful to gather relevant intelligence, and finally, the minutes of the meeting were classified as top secret. ”

In this way, Tang Huan, who felt that there was no need to waste too much time arguing, decisively made a decision and made a decision.

This kind of situation also happens to EA, and the situation is even more special.

Gaine: At this stage, the center of the global video game market has shifted from the United States to Japan, and EA's business is also in place there.

Tang Huan made a smooth deal with this, that is, to maintain the status quo, such as not busy withdrawing the earned yen back to the United States on a large scale, and wait and see for a while.

As for the Zheru lineage, since it is not listed, it basically belongs to Tang Huan's private territory, and it is much easier to fiddle with.

From the product level, Zheru mainly exports technology, patents, software and other intangible intellectual achievements to companies such as Fangyuan and EA, and there are not many physical products that are sensitive to changes in international currency exchange rates.

In addition, the members of the Zheru family, such as Zheru America, Zheru Xiangjiang, Zheru Treasure Island, Zheru Japan, Zheru Singapore, etc., are very independent of each other, focusing on localized operation, and there is no problem of difficult U-turn like Fangyuan Computer and EA.

Therefore, Tang Huan directly issued a confidential order to these superficial industries to "do the worst is right", which can be regarded as solving the debate and quarrel caused by the subordinates' dedication to their duties of "the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry".

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What Tang Huan really pays attention to is that the smell of gunpowder in the field of personal computers has become stronger and stronger recently, and a compatible machine war has almost kicked off.

With the successful release of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers, especially the United States Internal Revenue Service followed up with the large orders for mobile fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computers, the market has lit up a signal, a new round of personal computer upgrading is unstoppable, and whoever is left behind will only be eliminated.

Compared with the consistent and orderly pace of the Fangyuan computer standard camp, the situation of the IBM-PC standard camp can only be described as centrifugal and detached.

Many features represented by 32-bit and graphical user interface operating systems on the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer platform have pointed out the way forward for future personal computer applications, and also put a cap on the current IBM-PC.

The third and second generations of Fangyuan PCs can smoothly transition to the next generation of fourth-generation Fangyuan PCs. And the corresponding IBM-PC and compatible machine products. But there is no such rush.

IBM is working on the next generation of personal computers. But except for the project code name of "PS/2", other aspects are very secretive, and it is not at all like Fangyuan Computer Company, which communicates frequently with authorized compatible machine partners.

But IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers can't complain, who let them belong to the blue giant's flesh without asking, people have too many reasons to choose to ignore you.

It is precisely because of this cold relationship that IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers are beginning to realize. The next-generation personal computer platform "PS/2" that IBM is developing is probably a completely new system, and the name is more or less suggestive, and the purpose is to kick these bloodsuckers out of the game.

As a result, there is an imminent problem in front of the IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers, and the two major categories of products that the entire IBM-PC camp is currently competing for in a disorderly manner - 8-bit IBM-PC/XT and 16-bit IBM-PC/AT, may have no successor.

This is simply a catastrophe, you know, in the midst of all the discussions, the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers have successfully debuted. Aside from being slightly more expensive, it's almost a perfect product. The attraction is not ordinarily large. You can't just sell low-end IBM-PC/XT and IBM-PC/AT, otherwise, it will be eliminated in two years.

In just a few years, those successful IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers have achieved annual sales of hundreds of millions of dollars. They began to get used to the delicacy, and they were also tied to this chariot, and they really didn't want to bother to change their ways. After all, he has already occupied a place in the IBM-PC standard camp, and if he switches to the opposite Fangyuan computer standard camp, he will be a newcomer, and no one can say how far he can develop.

Since IBM, the original creator, is unwilling to develop the next generation of models for IBM-PC to help this series of products continue to live, then we will do it ourselves.

In this way, six of the most influential and successful IBM-PC compatible computer manufacturers announced an alliance to jointly develop the next generation of IBM-PC/AT compatible computers, that is, the 32-bit IBM-PC/AT corresponding to the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers.

This job is not as simple as replacing an Intel 80386 CPU, there are also many supporting functional chips that need to be redesigned.

The confusion of the IBM-PC standard camp is not only reflected between the compatible machine manufacturers and IBM, but also the compatible machine manufacturers are fighting each other.

One of the manifestations is the keyboard used by IBM-PC, in order to ensure that its own keyboard is not replaced, compatible machine manufacturers even specially designed their own unique keyboard interface to establish barriers.

The document on the conference room table listed the details of the IBM-PC-compatible machine manufacturer, which was so ambitious that it simply called the "PC Standards Group."

"What a big breath. Tang Huan, who felt that he had been robbed of the best lines, couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and snorted coldly, "Even if IBM's big stupid elephant has no opinion, we won't agree." ”

Shi Chongtang quipped: "I think it's more appropriate for their alliance to be called Six Doors." Compaq, NEC, Zenith Data System, Holly, Huizhi Technology, and Hongzhi Computer are exactly 6. ”

Tang Huan was amused, he glanced at the members of the "Personal Computer Standard Group", sure enough, there were no more, no less, exactly 6.

"Let's start with the so-called 'PC Standards Group'. Tang Huan waved his hand to the department executives opposite, and then the lights in the conference room dimmed, and everyone looked at the slides.

There is no doubt that the initiators of these six "personal computer standards groups" are the most successful of the many IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers, and naturally they are also the most hated vampires of IBM.

Some of these companies were founded a few years ago specifically for IBM-PC, the standard for free personal computers, while others were established companies that saw an opportunity to make quick money in the PC space and achieved unexpected success.

Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer is one of the former, which saw the gap in IBM's portable computer field and launched the mobile IBM-PC compatible machine "CompaqPortable", which became an instant hit, and in 1984, it took advantage of the situation to launch the real desktop personal computer "CompaqDeskpro".

These products have brought hundreds of millions of dollars in sales to Compaq Computer, and it has become one of the few successful start-up companies.

If at the beginning, Compaq Computer still had the idea of switching to the Fangyuan Computer camp, then now that it has tasted the sweetness, it is reluctant to get off the IBM-PC compatible machine, and it has become an advocate to kick IBM. The main force of the 386 model developed by IBM-PC.

NEC's own personal computer PC-9800 series was wiped out by Fangyuan personal computer manufacturers, mainly Sharp, Sony, Panasonic and other Fangyuan personal computer compatible machine manufacturers, and it turned its attention to IBM-PC without being convinced.

Zenith Data Systems is a subsidiary founded in 1979 and is part of Zenith Electronics. It is a veteran electronics company in the United States, with a history dating back to 1918, and saw the unlimited business opportunities in the personal computer industry, so it plunged into it.

Hollyland is also a long-established company, starting in 1908 as a typewriter in Turin, Italy, and expanding since then, expanding to more than 20 countries in the 1930s, entering the computer business in the 1940s, and in 1982 focusing on the IBM-PC compatible machine business.

Founded in 1981, Huizhi Technology's initial product was a high-quality and inexpensive character terminal, which was quite successful, and successfully went public and financed, so it naturally did not want to let go of the technology-free IBM-PC compatible machine.

Hongzhi Computer is a little special, and two of its founders, Huang Chaohong and Yuan Zhikun, are immigrants from Hong Kong. Founded in 1980 in Irvine, California, the company initially started producing expansion cards before moving on to personal computers.

Because Hongzhi Computer is also building a factory in the Hsinchu Science Park on Baodao Island, taking advantage of the preferential conditions there, Tang Huan has an impression in his mind, but he didn't expect the other party to come to join in the fun.

In addition to launching a-for-tat R&D plan for the next generation of personal computers, the "Six Doors" also took advantage of the situation to emphasize that the current IBM-PC compatible machine has a clear future upgrade direction, and then fought a price war in the summer vacation and set off a new round of sales offensive.

"You can't let it go. Tang Huan pointed to the sales data histogram on the slide, "Since IBM has more than enough heart and less power, then we will discipline these IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers for Big Benxiang." (To be continued.) )