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Seeing that the bearded Watts also ran to San Jose International Airport to pick him up, Tang Huan smiled and said, "Why are you so enthusiastic?" ”

"Pull donations for charity." Wozhan smiled and scratched his head.

"Just go to my office and get a check, you don't have to see me." Tang Huan shook his head with a smile, pulled the car door, and got into the car with Woz.

Although Tang Huan often flies around in airplanes, he has permanent offices in San Francisco, Xiangjiang, Paris and other places, and such trivial matters can be handled directly by the secretary.

"Spending money alone doesn't show the sincerity of participating in this charity event, and I want to collect some celebrity items for a charity auction. You're versatile, you won't be stumped, and anything like manuscripts or calligraphy and paintings are welcome. Wadsz explained in detail.

Tang Huan nodded again and again as he listened. Don't look at Woz, the founder of Apple, who is a little unprofessional, but it's not a good thing for him, after all, with his bad personality, he is increasingly unable to adapt to the contradictory Apple political ecology.

Wads tried to break out of Apple and set up a separate IT startup, but it was not good at management, and Jobs was angry and blocked it in every possible way, and finally it was hastily closed.

There is another point, although it is cruel, but it has to be faced. Because the crash has seriously affected Woz's memory, his genius who single-handedly designed the Apple I and Apple II is really no longer what he used to be. Silicon Valley has never lacked talented people, and it has been slapped to death by the waves of the Yangtze River on the sand of IT with rapid technological development.

In fact, Apple wanted Woz, the founder. Always become a legendary idol representing the myth of his own business. Instead of starting anew.

Therefore. This rotten good guy is kind of caught by a bear.

In this way, the San Francisco Music Festival, sponsored by Woz and Tang Huan, became the best event for him to spend time.

At the 3rd San Francisco Music Festival in September this year, Deng Lijun showed several photos of her visit to Africa with French First Lady Danielle Mitterrand, and told what she saw and heard with her personal experience.

Tang Huan is a nostalgic person. In the process of quickly gaining the billionaire halo by using Apple's power, Woz can be regarded as a nobleman, so he is happy to see the other party useful.

In fact, as long as Wads is given the right financial assistant to talk to, he can still play a lot of role as a mythical icon of Silicon Valley startups, and the San Francisco Music Festival is a clear example.

Now, Woz has begun to reach out to celebrities in the IT and music industries to promote charity activities to help the hungry in Africa, and he naturally wants to support it, so he nods yes. "No problem, I'm sure I'm looking for a few meaningful personal items. Contribute. ”

Woz nodded happily, and after getting something from Tang Huan, he happily said goodbye and moved on to the next target, without mentioning the recent situation of Apple, which shows the degree of distance between the two.

The current Apple company is almost to the point of fighting against the water, and the Lisa computer is almost zero in terms of product sales, and as for the MAC, which debuted at the beginning of this year, it can't even sell 10,000 units a month, and it has suddenly regressed to the level of 1980.

Because of neglect, AppleIIGS, the latest model of the Apple II, which provides a long-term stable financial source for Apple, has also begun to decline.

In order to get rid of the dilemma that the MAC is less popular due to lack of performance, Steve Jobs, who has merged the Lisa department into the MAC department, has recently made a desperate move, that is, to modify the unsalable Lisa computer, such as adding a MAC emulator, and then package it as an upgraded MAC model, MACXL, and sell it for nearly $4,000.

WITH ONLY 128KB OF MEMORY, THE PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECK IS TOO DEADLY; The less than $4,000 MACXL, which was remodeled from a Lisa computer that cost nearly $10,000, overcame this hurdle with 512KB of RAM and can be expanded to 2MB.

In this way, those users who don't know the truth and are obsessed with the functions of the graphical user interface really buy it, giving Apple a respite to improve the MAC.

Strictly speaking, Apple's practice of modifying the backlog of Lisa computers and selling them to users with new models of MAC computers is a kind of commercial fraud, after all, no matter how close the interface given by the MAC emulator is to the MAC, its core is actually a Lisa computer that cannot be sold.

On this point, Apple also had internal disagreements, but for the sake of the company's interests, it quickly returned to the surface of calm.

However, there is one thing, the Lisa computer is packaged as MACXL, re-introduced to the market, and it seems to have been successfully saved, but one fact cannot be changed, that is, Apple sells Lisa computers at a loss, and when the inventory is cleared, it is impossible to continue this practice of selling more and losing more, and the fundamental solution to the problem is to develop a real MAC upgrade model with strong enough performance.

Otherwise, Apple, which has already overdrawn its credit and the expectation of the graphical user interface, will be completely abandoned by users. AFTER ALL, THERE ARE OTHER GREAT PCS TO CHOOSE FROM BESIDES MAC.

Tang Huan has nothing to say about Apple's new tricks and confusion at this stage, and he has done his best to ask himself.

Tang Huan's first pot of gold, the spreadsheet software CGrid, was realized with the help of the AppleII platform. Later, the word processing software WordEasy, the database EBase, as well as hardware products such as display function enhancement cards and printing function enhancement cards, were released one after another, and even the price of the whole set was combined, surpassing the Apple II platform itself.

It is not difficult to see what role AppleII played in Tang Huan's original capital accumulation.

With the deepening of the cooperation between the two sides, it has reached the point of cross-shareholding. This allowed Tang Huan to take a ride on Apple's listing. It has been less than two years since he entered the IT field. won the title of billionaire and ranked third in wealth, even surpassing Woz, one of the founders of Apple.

The aura of a billionaire brings convenience in terms of social status, bank loans, financial credit, etc., which is really difficult to calculate exactly.

Tang Huan started his business from a poor student to his rapid rise to become the richest man in the United States, and the whole process was fair and innocent. Not only has countless people regarded as an idol of struggle, but also attracted the research of many experts, even if it is not authorized, all kinds of biographies are still flying all over the sky.

In all the descriptions, it is unanimously agreed that among the success factors of Tang Huan, the trick of laying eggs by chickens is perfect, and Apple is the chicken in the process of Tang Huan's accumulation of wealth.

With little value left, coupled with conflicts from the board of directors, Tang Huan quickly moved away from Apple. But through Marcura, Jobs, Woz's stake in Zheru. and long-term support for the development of the AppleII platform, he also repaid Apple.

This is also a major basis for the outside world to comment on Tang Huan's kindness. To know. Wall Street, in the cycle of raising pigs and killing pigs, is also ironically fond of those who are of good character. When Apple drove out the first CEO Michael Scott, the founder of the company, he was criticized for sharing hardships and hardships.

However, in the view of some key members of Apple's board of directors, especially Steve Jobs, who is fascinated by having his own products like Woz, Tang Huan's support for the AppleII platform is to change its lineage step by step, and eventually become a member of the Fangyuan Computer Standards Alliance, which will harm Apple's long-term interests, so they focus on the MAC and Lisa computer projects.

Since Apple insists on this idea, it is impossible for Tang Huan to stick a cold ass with a hot face, after all, the other party's use value is really to the point where there is not much left.

After listening to John Chambers and others talk about the recent situation of Apple caused by Watts' visit, Tang Huan nodded and asked instead: "How is the 32-bit architecture technology of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer being implemented by partners?" ”

"There are no accidents out of our control." John Chambers handed over a document, "The most recent highlight was the Fall Developer Conference, and later on COMDEX was the release of several expansion cards that meet the technical specifications for 32-bit PCs, but can be used on the current 16-bit third-generation Radius PCs. These two events can be regarded as the prelude to the official debut of 32-bit personal computers. So everyone wants you to be there so that you can give us a clearer direction for the future. ”

Originally, in the personal computer industry dominated by IBM-PC, IBM, the leading leader, had no interest in developing a 32-bit system of personal computers. When Intel, which turned to the CPU business in an all-out way, released the Intel80386 32-bit microprocessor, it was Compaq that preemptively launched the first 32-bit personal computer, the Compaq Desk Pro 386, and thus began to have the opportunity to dominate the market.

However, Compaq started by copycat IBM-PC after all, and technically with IBM-PC compatibility as the primary goal, there are only a few original things. For example, the system bus used by CompaqDeskPro386 is still the old-fashioned IBM-PC/AT bus, and Compaq does not have the ability to carry out the overall layout like the blue giant.

As the personal computer cake gets bigger and bigger, there are more and more participants, and IBM loses its monopoly position, and various new technologies are gradually joined by various manufacturers or industry alliances.

After entering the era of Pentium computers, the technical standards of personal computers began to be determined by organizations such as IEEE, rather than by a certain manufacturer.

At this stage, Tang Huan naturally has the absolute right to speak in the standard kingdom of Fangyuan computer built by himself, and the new generation of 32-bit personal computers is technically many times more perfect than CompaqDeskPro386...... Even the top-level applications responsible for driving consumer demand will have an overall layout.

Although this is far from a one-time battle, it is also a process of integrating several years of technological development into a product development process, and the complexity can be imagined.

In the early media briefing of Fangyuan Computer for the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers, the overall design goal was disclosed to attract capital markets, users and partners.

IBM, which has valuable experience in mainframe System/360 development, is not optimistic about Fang Yuan's ambitious 32-bit PC project, believing that Tang's company is too young to match the ability to successfully manage a project of this scale.

The reality seems to be as IBM expected, with the media reporting from time to time on the stumbling side out of the 32-bit PC project, which makes Big Blue's predictions even more plausible.

In fact, the media has always been good at exaggerating and exaggerating, how can the R&D plan led by Tang Huan really become a headless fly, but this kind of attention is also a kind of momentum, and it can also make the old rival IBM fall into confusion and contempt for the enemy, he did not rush to argue, but clarified with a rational academic attitude.

Tang Huan first published a paper titled "No Silver Bullet" to show that he had studied the classic anthology "The Myth of the Human Month" written by Fred Brooks, the father of the IBM Sysstem/360 system, and had a clear understanding and sufficient preparation for the complexity of large-scale project management; He then introduced a set of management systems called CapabilityMaturityModel (CMM) that his company has been implementing for a long time to prove its ability to control large-scale projects.

The reason why Tang Huan is so patient to discuss project management with a rigorous attitude is not only to cheer for the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers, but also to show military customers such as the U.S. Department of Defense that he is mature and stable in terms of technology research and development strength.

Judging from the results of the feedback from all sides, this coping strategy is very successful, at least it can shut up the opponent and lead the partner out of the confusion.

After reading the document, Tang Huan smiled: "The driving effect of video games on personal computers is really becoming more and more obvious, and it has become a hot spot at this autumn developer conference. I participated in this link, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the release of "Three Kingdoms". ”

Seeing Tang Huan say this, Charles Simeone complained: "Don, you are too partial to EA. ”

In the midst of everyone's laughter, Tang Huan recommended: "If you have free time, you might as well play this game, I believe the experience will definitely be very fresh." ”

? (To be continued.) )