After listening to Spielberg's reminder, Tang Huan nodded thoughtfully.

His subordinates naturally don't think that they have too much money and think that their side has made too much money in Hollywood this year, so they consider the feelings of others; Spielberg, on the other hand, expressed his views from the perspective of a third party, who are also stakeholders, can more objectively reflect the subtle changes in the mentality of the outside world.

"This summer's Lianmei and MGM's unbeatable ride, Paramount's accompaniment, and the onlookers of other companies just show how far the overall development of Hollywood has fallen compared to the glorious situation of decades."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan accentuated his tone, "But it is precisely because of this that the American film industry may have hit the bottom and is about to usher in a new development opportunity." Las Vegas' gambling tycoon Cork? Kirkrian, Roberto of Coca-Cola. Steve Kuo, Warner. Ross should have also seen the signs of this, which is why he has made so many names. ”

Tang Huan looked at Spielberg and smiled, "I've only been in Hollywood for a few years, even if I want to monopolize, do you have this capital?" It's a ridiculous trick made up by someone with a will. As for being involved with Columbia Pictures and Coca-Cola, it can only be said to be a coincidence, who made me, a Silicon Valley nouveau riche lenient. Of course, I do have a little idea about Columbia Pictures for film rights reasons. Did you know that the business of video recorders and video tapes is not the usual boom. ”

"It can only be said that you are too discerning in terms of investment, and the resulting late-mover first-comes-first-served trend has been formed. It has made some old forces jealous. "The benefits I got from Tang Huan. Spielberg, far more than any film company he had worked with before. Heartily complimented: "Now, your name as a lucky person in Hollywood has been confirmed." ”

"Whether it's the Silicon Valley nouveau riche or the lucky Hollywood people, the sourness in this is too obvious, and it doesn't reflect the recognition of my personal ability and hard work." Tang Huan sighed, "Maybe my ascent speed is really too fast, and there are too many factors that make people think that they are lucky." ”

Seeing Tang Huan's face showing a lonely look. Spielberg sincerely comforted: "Many people only see the scenery of Silicon Valley One, but they don't understand how hard it is for you, a trapeze, to travel around the world frequently. Perhaps human society is inherently so complex, and I often encounter such distress. ”

Although there were no two-pot heads and peanuts, there was red wine, and Tang Huan and Spielberg, the "confidants", had a drink.

……

It was confirmed from Spielberg that Warner was still tirelessly digging the pit of "E.T. Extra-Terrestrial" for himself, and Tang Huan pressed down the depression in his heart and waited for a few months to play.

As for the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust investigation, it is natural that there will be subordinates to deal with those investigators. If he's serious, he's losing.

This kung fu is freed up. Tang Huan used to accompany Intel's Andy? Grove, and Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law. Moore, visit the Intel80286 prototype of the Intel CPU branch of the third-generation Fangyuan personal computer taken out by the Zheru R&D Center.

This year, Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have jointly launched a price war against their American counterparts, and Intel has complained bitterly. The price of the 64KB dynamic random access memory chip, which should be the main product on the market, has fallen from tens of dollars all the way, and it seems that it is going straight to the single digits.

Commodore's MOSTechnology, which is part of Commodore, and Texas Instruments, have also been impacted, but they have both directly entered the personal computer industry, taking advantage of this vertically integrated industry, not only are they worried about the sales of the chips they produce, but they also have the spare energy to fight each other's price wars in the low-end personal computer field, trying to kick each other out.

Intel does not have this convenience, in order to win the trust of customers, it has set a rule for itself - the company's business does not enter the field of competition with customers.

In other words, Intel, which produces semiconductor memory chips and microprocessors, will not enter the field of computer manufacturing.

As a result, up to now, the thigh of memory, the main business on which it depends, has been crippled by the partnership of Japanese semiconductor manufacturers, but the microprocessor part of the business is still in order.

In order to compete with Motorola's quasi-32-bit microprocessor MC68000, Intel has painstakingly upgraded its CPU product line from Intel8086 to Intel80286, adding features such as support for error handling, virtual memory, and more.

After the Intel 80286 was officially introduced to the market at the beginning of this year, Intel had been hoping that the CPU would quickly get into the main chassis of personal computers, but there were few responses.

Fortunately, Fangyuan Computer and IBM-PC have given a positive attitude and will develop personal computers based on Intel80286.

In view of the fact that IBM-PC only uses the Intel8086, a reduced version of the Intel8086, and the fact that the technology and market are weaker than the Fangyuan computer, Intel pays more attention to the performance of the Fangyuan computer.

In fact, Tang Huan's speed is much faster than IBM, and it took about half a year to come up with the prototype of Intel80286, which undoubtedly gave Intel, which felt a haze on his head, a ray of golden sunshine.

Tang Huan and Andy? Grove, Gordon. When Moore walked into the conference room, the presenter was running the new game "Monopoly" launched by EA on the personal computer platform on the Intel80286 prototype, which made the eyes of the two Intel bigwigs light up, and a thought flashed in their hearts, "Is the maturity of the Intel80286 prototype already so high?" ”

You know, running this type of video game is a test of the full range of personal computers.

When you see the game at a certain rendezvous, there is a picture of the character entering the simulated stock market trading, Andy? Grove and Gordon. Moore glanced at each other, and his heart was shocked. A few more months. Fangyuan Computer is about to go public. Of course, new products are needed to fuel the fun.

These irrelevant thoughts quickly flashed by, Andy? Grove and Gordon. Moore was intrigued by the powerful performance of the Intel 80286 prototype.

Woz's design of the Apple II is indeed eye-catching in terms of display features, but there are still many shortcomings, and the traces of his personal skills are too obvious, limiting the possibility of it becoming a standard.

Due to the variety of PC hardware standards at this stage, the implementation methods of display functions are correspondingly different.

For example, the display standard adopted by IBM-PC at the beginning is called MonochromeDisplayAdapter - Monochrome Display Adapter or MDA. It supports up to 720x350 resolution, and can display 80 lines × 25 columns of text on one screen, which is twice as many as the 40 lines × 25 columns in the Apple II era.

However, MDA has an obvious shortcoming, that is, it does not have the ability to draw, and it is suddenly compared to its peers.

For example, the monochrome graphics card HerculesGraphicsCard developed by the American Hercules Graphics Card - Hercules graphics card is HGC, which supports a resolution of 720x348 and can display clear text and graphics.

HGC not only provides the function of displaying graphics at a higher resolution at a relatively low price, but also opens up the underlying interface, allowing users to give full play to the functions of the hardware with greater flexibility. Great for game development.

But success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He, this kind of underlying method is very difficult to master. In particular, the resolution of 720x348 is too special, and it is quite different from the common 640x480, 640x350, and 640x200 standards in the industry.

In order to equip its IBM-PC with drawing capabilities, Big Blue quickly launched the ColorGraphicsAdapter, or CGA.

As the name suggests, CGA is the first graphics card on IBM-PC to support color.

The standard is to provide two standard text display modes: 40 lines× 25 columns× 16 colors, and 80 lines×25 columns×16 colors; As well as two commonly used graphic display modes: 320 rows× 200 columns× 4 colors, and 640 rows×200 columns×2 colors.

Of course, game programmers can also simulate the display of a wider variety of colors on CGA through special techniques.

It has to be said that the conservative style of the blue giant has also been fully demonstrated in product design, and the CGA that it thinks is in line with the times has not actually kept up with the changes in the personal computer market.

The display implementation designed by Tang Huan for Fangyuan computer is called VideoGraphicsStandard, or VGS.

The first generation of Fangyuan computer uses VGS version 1.0, which supports the highest resolution of 640×350, and can display 4 colors in this mode.

As for the text mode, there are also two types, which are 80 lines× 25 columns× 16 colors, and 40 lines× 25 columns× 16 colors.

The second-generation Fangyuan computer uses VGS version 1.5, which supports a maximum resolution of 640×480 and can display 8 colors in this mode.

In terms of text mode, VGS version 1.5 is the same as version 1.0, with 80 rows× 25 columns× 16 colors, and 40 rows×25 columns× 16 colors, but there is an enhancement that it also supports 4 background colors for text at the same time.

In addition, VGS has a complete set of assembly language function interfaces for more precise control by programmers.

The compatible machine manufacturers of Fangyuan Computer will make various trade-offs in the common standards of Fangyuan Computer, but basically will not shrink in VGS.

This makes the display function of Fangyuan computer obviously better than that of its competitors, and it has a set of system call interfaces, which in turn attracts more and more developers to develop games on this platform.

The third generation of Fangyuan computer uses VGS version 2.0, which supports a maximum resolution of 640×480 and can display 16 colors in this mode.

In terms of text mode, in addition to 80 lines× 25 columns× 16 colors, and 40 lines×25 columns×16 colors, the background color of the text has reached 8.

It is worth noting that version 2.0 of VGS can display 256 colors in 320×200 mode.

Of course, the entire VGS standard is backwards compatible, and VGS 2.0 supports simulating the resolution of VGS1.0 and VGS1.5.

It can be said that the VGS2.0 graphics card used by the third generation of Fangyuan computers began to have the shadow of the personal computer graphics card in the original time and space, and the heat generation rose sharply, because it used the 256KB video memory produced by the French FAB1 semiconductor factory, and the display core running at a frequency of 25MHz.

Tang Huan estimates that when the standards of the third generation of Fangyuan computers are opened to compatible manufacturers, the VGS2.0 of the display part is likely to be shrunk to VGS1.5.

In addition to the VGS2.0 standard graphics card, this Intel 80286 prototype has a CPU running at 12.5MHz, 1MB of memory, and a 20MB hard disk, which undoubtedly pushes the performance of mainstream PCs to a new level.

The running effect of the game "Monopoly" is compared with the Intel8086 second-generation Fangyuan computer that is also the Intel microprocessor series as a reference, and you can see an obvious gap.

Next, the demo will be to run two programs at the same time, the spreadsheet CGrid and the word processing WordEasy, which is obviously a demonstration of the Intel 80286 features in terms of multitasking support, which is implemented by the latest version of the operating system FreeDOS.

At this stage, only the high-end model of Fangyuan computer supports multitasking, and it is the part of the product that uses Motorola microprocessor MC68000.

From this aspect alone, Intel and Motorola's CPUs are superior, which has made Intel, which has always been technologically advanced as its selling point, linger for a long time.

Well, now that Intel80286 is launched, the two sides are considered to be tied.

Actually, this multitasking

At this stage, only the high-end model of Fangyuan computer supports multitasking, and it is the part of the product that uses Motorola microprocessor MC68000.

From this aspect alone, Intel and Motorola's CPUs are superior, which has made Intel, which has always been technologically advanced as its selling point, linger for a long time.

Well, now that Intel80286 is launched, the two sides are considered to be tied.

Actually, this multitasking (to be continued......