In fact, the Atari 400/800 series of personal computers was developed as the successor to the Atari 2600 for home game consoles.

Because the midway operators realized the rise of the personal computer, they temporarily turned to it and adjusted it to support more devices such as keyboards, and broke into this field.

The Atari 400/800 has some commendable features, such as AtariSIO, a bus interface for connecting external devices, which is somewhat similar to USB that will not be available until the future.

However, the water in the personal computer industry is very deep, and the Atari 400/800, which is bent on making a fortune, falls in two places.

Because the prototype of the Atari 400/800 came from a home game console, which was subject to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) electromagnetic emission regulations, it had some additional shielding in the circuitry, but it was not adjusted after the switch to a personal computer, making it uncompetitive in cost.

What's more, the Atari 400/800 suffers the same fault as the Atari 2600, and has been overestimating the trend of memory prices.

The capacity it is equipped with, at the time of design, the two models were 4KB and 8KB respectively, but when it was released, the memory price was greatly reduced, and it had to adapt to the trend to increase to 48KB, and the heat became a serious problem.

In the original time and space next year, Atari launched the next generation of the home game console Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, which was basically copied from the personal computer Atari 400/800 series. But it failed because it was not compatible with the games of the Atari 2600.

Thus. The Atari gang is opportunistic. It's just too amateurish.

When Tang Huan was developing Fangyuan Computer and Xiaobawang Game Console, he also adopted the same origin and branching method, but he did not make such a low-level mistake.

In addition, the homogeneity of the Atari 400/800 and the Atari 5200 shows that personal computers now have good gaming capabilities, such as the famous Cherrysan company has been developing games on the Apple II.

But on the other hand, it also shows how chaotic the video game console market is, and even personal computers are rushing to eat.

Commodore has just launched its latest personal computer, the Commodore64. It's such a-stirring stick, with its cost advantage, its product is priced at less than $600, and an advertising slogan like "Do you want a product that can only play games, or do you want a personal computer that doesn't delay learning and gaming", has fooled many customers who originally belonged to video game consoles.

After listing the most likely remaining survivors of this round of market competition, the participants' working ideas naturally became much clearer.

"Although the Osborne generation is now a newcomer to the PC market, its portability is eye-catching, so why isn't it favored?" Some people are deeply puzzled about this.

"Our hardware equipment. The failure rate is very low, and you should not take this for granted. It is the result of the cooperation and hard work of many people in many departments. ”

Tang Huan sighed, "But as far as I know, Osborne Computer Company has been stunned by huge orders, and only cares about how to deliver as soon as possible, but it is seriously lagging behind in quality management. This crisis will not break out too late, enough for them to scramble. Moreover, the Osborne generation machine does not set a technical threshold, and followers will soon appear. In the face of internal and external troubles, can its prospects be called optimistic? ”

After discussing for a while, Tang Huan saw that everyone had gradually reached a consensus on this analysis and prediction, so he continued: "There is no doubt that IBM is our biggest enemy, and the current battle is mainly focused on software and the so-called patent lawsuit. However, according to the development situation of the semiconductor industry, the cost of computer parts will be further reduced next year. At that time, the second-generation Fangyuan computer that has undergone price adjustment is bound to have a short-term handover with IBM-PC in the hardware position. ”

Mainstream PCs in the market, such as AppleIIe, generally have a memory configuration of 48KB, while the basic model of the second-generation Fangyuan computer starts from 64KB.

Originally, 64KB of DRAM was $50 per chip in 1981, and in 1982 it was $5 per piece.

The reason for such a big dive is naturally due to the aggressiveness of Japanese semiconductor companies.

Tang Huan has always been concerned about the Japanese side, and he is completely sure that this general trend will not change, and the huge demand for memory brought about by the emergence of Xiaobawang game consoles and Fangyuan computers has stimulated the ambitions of the Japanese people more and more.

In other words, the semiconductor war between Japan and the United States will become more and more tragic because of Tang Huan's fire.

For this excitement, Tang Huan is optimistic, the cheaper the memory, the more articles he can do on the personal computer platform.

"Since everyone is essentially competing for standards, then we should make more efforts in this area, in addition to promoting the authorization of the ISA bus, but also actively attract third parties to develop ISA cards. You must know that every time a new product appears, it means that the second-generation Fangyuan computer has one more application field. For example, after having some kind of factory information collection card, the second-generation Fangyuan computer can enter the production enterprise in a grand manner. ”

Tang Huanyang instilled his own ideas into the minds of his subordinates, so that the entire IT industry cluster could maintain a steady pace of progress while correctly responding to the current new market competition situation.

The role and significance of this meeting are very important, so it has been held for a relatively long time.

After that, Tang Huan inspected the progress of the various projects that the company was developing.

Since COMDEX has an additional spring exhibition this year, which will be held in New York next month, Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and EA, which have always been heavyweight exhibitors, must take each session seriously and come up with valuable products to showcase.

Among them is worth mentioning, although because of the calorific problem of the MC68000. As a result, the second-generation Xiaobawang game console cannot be launched to the market for the time being. But the optimization and improvement of the generation of Xiaobawang game consoles never stops. The video and audio effects have been significantly enhanced.

Since there is a concept of CentralProcessingUnit - the CPU that performs a general function in the microprocessor, it is natural that there will be their own proprietary concepts in the audio field and the video field: AudioProcessingUnit - the sound processor is the APU and GraphicsProcessingUnit - the graphics processing unit is the GPU.

It's just that because of the problem of vision, people haven't paid attention to it now.

The reason why Tang Huan has maintained the continuous enhancement of the first generation of Xiaobawang game consoles is mainly to take advantage of its demand, drive the research and development of APUs and GPUs, and test the actual results of their conversion into products, until finally expanded to personal computer platforms.

Such a height is naturally beyond the reach of Atari, Nintendo, Sega and others. And they can only watch EA unknowingly suck money like crazy and jealous.

In terms of the second-generation Fangyuan computer, there is a special ultra-high-end new model has been launched, its motherboard is equipped with two MC68000 microprocessors, through a special chip in the middle for communication and collaboration, and the operating system it uses FreeDOS, which needs to be loaded with an additional driver to exert the power of dual CPUs.

Obviously, this kind of personal computer with multi-processor architecture will be the highest-end product of the entire product line of the second-generation Fangyuan computer, and at the same time, it means. Desktop publishing systems have a more powerful hardware platform.

However, even if it is equipped with two CPUs. The execution performance of the entire second-generation Fangyuan computer will not be doubled, and can only reach about 150%.

It seems to be a long way from the perception of "1+1=2", but this achievement has been hard-won, and it can be called a perfect technical attempt.

Zheru's new product is more professional, it is a new set of programming language development tools - C++, and its research and development power comes from meeting the needs of its own large-scale software development.

C++ supports object-oriented programming, by Bell Labs' Biyani? Dr. Strausstrup invented and realized.

In addition to the new products used in COMDEX, Tang Huan also focused on the telecom switch project.

After being processed by Yi Peng/Holder of RISC architecture, the long-awaited technicians soon launched an official sample of the telecom switch and placed it in the R&D center building for testing.

In addition, they found two hotels that were willing to be guinea pigs to try out the equipment.

Tang Huan personally experienced some new features, such as the caller ID that he was accustomed to in time and space.

In fact, compared with other traditional telecom switches, the biggest difference between this telecom switch is that in addition to transmitting sound, it has thoroughly supported the transmission of data.

In other words, the speed of data communication via the public telephone network with a modem will be significantly improved.

Of course, the premise is that the line passes through this kind of telecom exchange.

Tang Huan, who was very satisfied, praised the entire project team and said bluntly: "Your product will be the next gold-absorbing monster." ”

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In fact, although the IT industry is extremely risky, Tang Huan, as an expert, can always make the most beneficial layout for himself, so Zheru and other affiliated companies in the center of the storm are much more peaceful than outsiders guess.

After Tang Huan let these Silicon Valley elites finish their intentions, they began to deal with the affairs of the Shennong Foundation.

The first phase of the Treasure Hospital project was completed and began to be put into use.

To this end, Tang Huan held another dinner party and invited various dignitaries and celebrities to celebrate.

According to the usual practice, the treasure hospital naturally also needs to realize the information office, and Zheru has developed a medical record management and other systems for it, which can be regarded as opening up a new application field.

The Wang family of Baodao had already opened the famous Chang Gung Hospital earlier, so from the beginning of the preparation of the Treasure Hospital, it has received professional staff from there, coupled with the abundant financial support of the Shennong Foundation, its formality has far exceeded Tang Huan's expectations, and it has attracted many elites in the American medical field.

In Tang Huan's view, the treasure hospital is mainly to let the Shennong Foundation spend more money, so he used the excuse of "professional work and professional people are responsible", he did not express any opinions, and just visited it casually.

However, with the exception of the acupuncture department of Treasure Hospital, Tang Huan made it clear that under the framework of relevant laws in California, clinical research in traditional Chinese medicine should be encouraged.

In addition, the HIV laboratory has since had its own building, and research results such as rapid diagnosis have also received great attention from the US government.

It is not difficult to see that Tang Huan is busy in this field, and he is throwing money outside, so he has always been curious about Viagra, a project that should be crazy about attracting money.

How is the Viagra project progressing? Men all over the world are looking forward to you.

However, it is a pity that even if the ingredient sildenafil is known, the necessary and rigorous clinical research process cannot be crossed.

In other words, Viagra still has some way to go if it wants to enter the market.

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In the meantime, James, who hasn't seen him for many days? Cameron came to visit.

Seeing the other party's depressed look, Tang Huan couldn't help but be very curious.

The Wang family of Baodao had already opened the famous Chang Gung Hospital earlier, so from the beginning of the preparation of the Treasure Hospital, it has received professional staff from there, coupled with the abundant financial support of the Shennong Foundation, its formality has far exceeded Tang Huan's expectations, and it has attracted many elites in the American medical field.

In Tang Huan's view, the treasure hospital is mainly to let the Shennong Foundation spend more money, so he used the excuse of "professional work and professional people are responsible", he did not express any opinions, and just visited it casually.

However, with the exception of the acupuncture department of Treasure Hospital, Tang Huan made it clear that under the framework of relevant laws in California, clinical research in traditional Chinese medicine should be encouraged.

In addition, the HIV laboratory has since had its own building, and research results such as rapid diagnosis have also received great attention from the US government.

It is not difficult to see that Tang Huan is busy in this field, and he is throwing money outside, so he has always been curious about Viagra, a project that should be crazy about attracting money.

How is the Viagra project progressing? Men all over the world are looking forward to you.

However, it is a pity that even if the ingredient sildenafil is known, the necessary and rigorous clinical research process cannot be crossed. (To be continued......)