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On New Year's Day this year, 57-year-old Wilson was on the list of honors and was named a lifetime nobleman.

Of course, this honor is a great thing, who can really transcend fame and fortune in life, not to mention that it is also an affirmation of Wilsson.

However, an intriguing situation has arisen - originally according to normal circumstances, after the first term of office, the governor of Hong Kong usually gets the re-election of the British government~ as a sign of recognition of his political achievements. Wilsson, who is still a few years away from the 60-year-old retirement age set by the British Foreign Office, should have received this commendation for his re-election after the award, but 10 Downing Street announced that his term as governor of Hong Kong would end this year.

What makes people even more imaginative is that at the same time as this decision was made, the candidate for the next governor of Hong Kong was not announced.

In other words, Wilson was taken down by British Prime Minister John Major.

In the process of talking to Tang Huan on the phone, this old man's dissatisfaction and annoyance were simply uncontrollable.

It seems that the remaining years before the return of Xiangjiang will not stop after all-Tang Huan sighed secretly, and turned to comfort the last Hong Kong governor, Wilson whose dream was shattered, "The matter has come to this, so let's face reality." If you don't want to stay in public office, I have plenty of jobs in the UK for you to help with. For example, the chairman of Chelsea Football Club is not necessarily worse than the governor of Hong Kong. ”

was so teased by the richest man, Wilson finally didn't lose his temper so much, and after another conversation, he hung up the phone.

Tang Huan shook his head, the temple is small and windy, Xiangjiang doesn't need to worry about it for the time being, he still has to arrange the United States side first, and then talk about the rest.

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From Christmas in the West in 1991 to Lunar New Year in 1992, Feb. 4, Tang Huan focused on dealing with network resources, such as the activities of the "Committee of 100," an elite group of Chinese Americans.

Since March 24 of the previous year, 70-year-old Wang An died of esophageal cancer, the richest man in the Chinese circle inevitably lacks an equal IT partner with a common topic. Fortunately, Wang An Computer Company did not go bankrupt as in the original time and space, and operated remarkably in the fields of personal computers, workstations, and office equipment.

Taking the opportunity of the event, Tang Fa has advocated that starting from this year, it will provide guidance and assistance to Chinese businessmen who may encounter conflicts in their daily operations.

Of course, the richest man can't say this for no reason, there is a background to this.

On March 16 last year, Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African-American girl, was suspected of stealing by 51-year-old Korean-American female shopkeeper Dou Shunzi in a grocery store in Koreatown, Los Angeles, because she put a bottle of orange juice in her backpack, and the two sides clashed.

In the end, the female shopkeeper took out a pistol and shot Latasha Harlins in the head from a distance of about a meter, killing the black girl instantly.

During the Los Angeles court trial on November 15, 1991, the jury found Dou Soonzi guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced him to 16 years, but the presiding female judge, Joy Scallin, did not think so and reduced the sentence to five years of probation, 400 hours of community service and a $500 fine, and the California Supreme Court upheld Joy Scallin's trial on appeal.

The implications of this incident are clear, exacerbating tensions between African-Americans and Korean-Americans, and even affecting Asian-Americans as a whole — wishful thinking that everyone is a minority and will love each other as a matter of course. In fact, blacks, who have been enslaved by whites for a long time, still have a sense of superiority in front of Asians.

Tang Huan's starting point was based on this incident, which was quite in line with the actual situation and could be described as targeted, so it was successfully passed in a voice of approval.

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Just after the busy year, Intel CEO Andy Grove came to visit.

Intel80486's next-generation microprocessor R&D program is now in its fourth year this year and has finally entered the testing phase.

Originally, Intel planned to logically call this generation of products Intel80586, after all, naming with numbers is a long-standing habit in the entire semiconductor industry. Just like AMD, its corresponding x86 architecture compatible microprocessors are AM286, AM386, etc.

But the problem is that Intel wants to register these numbers as trademarks and use them for itself in the future, thereby kicking out the competitors who are hitchhiking.

As a result, purely digital trademarks were not allowed, and the plan fell through in vain, resulting in the new product not having an official name, and could only be temporarily called P5, Intel's fifth-generation microarchitecture codename.

Compared with the previous generation Intel80486, the most obvious improvement of P5 is that it supports superscalar architecture, which has made a breakthrough in parallel execution.

Intel, which completely presses the treasure on microprocessing, naturally attaches great importance to P5. Designed by the Santa Clara team that developed the Intel80386 and Intel80486, it started with a few dozen engineers and has grown to 200 engineers.

According to the plan, if the P5 is successfully tested, it will participate in the exhibition in June this year, and then officially launch it in September this year.

Andy Grove came this time, in addition to reporting the progress of the project to Tang Huan, who attaches great importance to the significance of the P5 to the Yuanyuan personal computer, there is also a more important purpose, that is, he wants to use the most advanced manufacturing technology mastered by the richest man - 800 nanometer process and 8-inch wafer to conduct a test.

You know, over the years, in the CPU products used in personal computers, Intel's microprocessor, its performance has been lagging behind Motorola's microprocessor, that is, at high operating frequency, it maintains a good performance-per-watt ratio, and P5 naturally continues this tradition.

Further, compared with the original time and space, in the personal computer ecological chain composed of microprocessor manufacturers, other chip manufacturers, personal computer manufacturers, operating system manufacturers, application software developers and other roles, Intel, which provides microprocessors, is no longer irreplaceable.

In other words, although Fangyuan's personal computer standards have become industry standards, Fangyuan's personal computers and their compatible machines have become the mainstream of the market, and even IBM has surrendered in a timely manner, but Tang Huan did not relax the control of Fangyuan's personal computer standards.

In this case, the market's acceptance of P5 depends on the operating system.

"Let's wait for other platforms to test it first. "The richest man poured cold water on Andy Grove, who was on the rise.

Due to the increasing complexity, Intel's x86 family microprocessors, especially since Intel80286, have never been smooth in the birth process, and basically will "skip the ticket" of the planned official release because of an intolerable bug.

Mr. The richest man, who didn't want to keep his highest-end device busy in vain, asked with a little dissatisfaction: "Why didn't P5 add native command support for multimedia?" ”

In addition to the implementation of the software system, the complete set of digital multimedia standards developed by Tang Huan also needs hardware support from the underlying architecture to provide the best performance.

"P5 is a completely new microarchitecture, and we plan to wait for it to be refined and stabilized before adding support for multimedia commands. Andy Grove carefully explains: "Israel's Haifa R&D team is working on this. ”

"This shows that you didn't design with native instruction support for multimedia in mind. Market share is not something that can be seized just by launching products early. Tang Huan unceremoniously criticized.

In the end, Intel's CEO left in disgrace.

However, Andy Grove's trip reminded Tang Huan of an invitation sent by Gates a few days ago.

Following its release in 1990, this year Microsoft has introduced an upgraded version that mainly adds support for basic multimedia devices with sound input and output——, such as providing a CD audio player.

That's not the point, it's interesting to note that Microsoft has announced that it will support the intel_x86 microprocessor branch of the Radius PC for its own operating system from the beginning.

It is not difficult to understand this move, the market share of IBM-PC compatible machines is shrinking day by day, and if Microsoft does not adjust, it will lose the job of operating system. What's more, the current threat of competition from Novell, the developer of the network operating system, is making its head bigger.

It will be released on March 18, and Gates invited Tang to attend, mainly because of a kind of flattery of the pier - Windows can't pose a threat to Zheru's studios at all, just to make a living, begging for food.

Tang Huan's forbearance of Gates has never really relaxed his vigilance, how he was to welcome IBM at the beginning, how he will entertain himself now.

It's just that after Fangyuan's personal computer standards dominate the world, users really need to be given one more choice in terms of operating systems to reduce the pressure from anti-monopoly.

As long as Windows is still this 3.x architecture, it will still be a "toy", so let it play a foil role for the time being.

Tang Huan put down the invitation card and looked at the itinerary, before that, he first needed to attend the relevant activities of the American Online IPO.

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Thanks to the rise of the Internet concept promoted by people from all walks of life, AOL, a money-burning company, is very optimistic about investors, and the preparations for the IPO are very smooth, and the listing time is finally set for Thursday, March 5.

AOL's management has changed a little bit in the last year. Tang Huan hired a helper for Steve Case, Robert Pittman, and made him the chief executive officer, and Steve Case was the chairman of the board.

Robert Pittman was a market genius, and it was in his hands that MTV, the music television network, began to shine.

In a way, AOL is a media business, and it really needs an executive who is comfortable in this field.

On the other hand, Steve Case, a workaholic, is not good at strict corporate micromanagement, and as the company grows, it needs an experienced partner to work with.

Not to mention, after these two people got together, a subtle chemical reaction occurred, and they tacitly matched each other at work, which greatly satisfied Mr. Mangy.

On March 5, AOL went public on schedule with an offering price of $17.25, easily raising the planned $120 million.

There's a reason why investors are so sought-after. In their view, what makes AOL unique compared to other similar online service companies is not the technological advancement, but the unprofessionalism of the users - many people who still don't know much about personal computers are attracted to AOL's virtual community, and this kind of person is the real consumer.

Steve Case's ambitious statement about the use of the financing is to expand AOL's network capacity so that all Americans can access the benefits of AOL's Internet service.

At the internal meeting to celebrate the success of AOL's IPO, Steve Case, who already has a paper fortune of more than $3 million through the company's stock, couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, jumped on the chair at once, and thanked everyone excitedly, saying that today is the most meaningful day, and wishing it to be one of the many good days in the future.

"If you are energetic, it's good!" Tang Huan, who enjoyed this lively scene and took a sip of red wine comfortably, thought with a smile: "AOL finally doesn't have to throw money into it by himself, but has begun to become a rake that can hold money." ”

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Next, Tang Huan put on a gentle posture again, and showed up at the press conference, saying very selflessly that Microsoft's software products have brought more choices and more freedom to users of Fangyuan's personal computer platform, which is a positive signal for the development of the industry.

Of course, under the smiling faces of blessings, the true thoughts in everyone's hearts are unknown.

In addition, Tang Huan also got a message at this product launch that a Chinese Simplified version will be launched. (To be continued.) )