Chapter 0766 Will it be the next IBM
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The 32-bit PC war, which began in full swing in the second half of last year, has lasted for almost a year now.
All parties have evolved from the earliest simple hardware cost performance to the overall value of today's competition platform, which in turn makes the position of third-party manufacturers more and more important.
IBM's painstaking PS/2 personal computer is a new architecture that is overturned and rebuilt, closed and licensed, and the existing series of products from Intel8088, Intel8086 to Intel80286 have been thoroughly sorted out, and the flagship product supporting the latest microprocessor Intel80386 has been launched.
According to the blue giant's consistent step-by-step and mastery of the idea, the first step is to clean up the previous IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers that suck their own blood, and then enjoy the territory laid down by the IBM-PC standard; Then the second step is a matter of course, and you will have to compete with the Fangyuan PC.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven.
The IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers led by Compaq Computer did not dare to copy the PS/2 architecture computer, but they were unwilling, and the tenacious vitality that broke out made the originally confident IBM a little caught off guard.
It not only took the lead in launching a personal computer that supports the latest microprocessor Intel 80386, but also tried to develop a new generation of open bus technology comparable to the PS/2 microchannel architecture on the basis of the IBM-PC/AT, which has been abandoned by Big Blue. According to the latest disclosed information, this achievement will be ripe next year at the latest.
If successful, this upgrade plan will not only be a serious blow to IBM, but also a great irony - after all, the blue giant is touting the superiority of the PS/2 architecture while lobbying customers to abandon the IBM-PC/AT architecture, which has been judged to be old and has no future.
As a result, Compaq Computer, a member of the "six doors" of the IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturer's camp, has made the old IBM-PC/AT architecture sprout new sprouts and rejuvenate.
In contrast, IBM, which tries its best to fool customers into paying more money to buy PS/2, can be said to have lost a lot of money and smeared its own golden signboard.
At the same time, the IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers who went to the black on the road of cost performance really used the slogan of "the computer is enough" to stabilize many customers, and did not let IBM, which thought that "PS/2 came out, all the thieves of IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers were the heads" had an absolute upper hand.
It must be pointed out that another major contribution to the success of IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers is that the high quality and low price of the products have attracted many programmers to develop a large number of utilities for the platform of IBM-PC and MS-DOS, including applications with decent functions and video games with good playability.
IBM's PS/2 is a newly designed personal computer platform, and its operating system is OS/2, which has powerful features including multitasking, and MS-DOS cannot catch up.
However, OS/2 is not perfect. It is often criticized for its high hardware requirements, and for smooth operation, it is best to have a personal computer with a capacity of 2MB or more.
According to the rumors released by Microsoft, the co-developer of OS/2 and the contradictory IBM, the reason why OS/2 is not efficient is because IBM places too much emphasis on the rules and regulations of software engineering management, which in turn leads to unsatisfactory code execution efficiency written by both parties.
But in any case, the combination of PS/2 and OS/2 is technically better than the combination of IBM-PC compatible machines and MS-DOS. However, the former suffered from an embarrassing situation similar to Apple's graphical user interface, personal computer MAC, and no third-party software support in the early stage.
In fact, the prosperity of rich software support on the IBM-PC platform did not exist from the beginning, but was supported by the head of IBM's personal computer department at the time, Don Brown. Estlic has made great efforts to attract and support Lotus Software's spreadsheet software Lotus1-2-3, DBase's database software Dbase and other ace applications, and has developed and accumulated step by step.
Bill Lowo, the current head of IBM's personal computer department, although he is also talented, his work style has a typical IBM bureaucratic gene, not as good as Don? Estrich put down his body and went to the grassroots level, and then there was a shortcoming in the layout supported by third-party software.
It's never too late to make amends. The conservative IBM has never lacked the background of being a latecomer. Bill Lowo, who realized what was wrong, was confident that he could quickly improve the situation with third-party software support.
But the tragedy is that this is a time of global DRAM prices, and the memory-sensitive PS/2 and OS/2 combination platforms have a market price of at least $5,000 or more to achieve smooth and practical specifications, and they are simply losing out to the combination of IBM-PC compatible machines and MS-DOS.
What's even worse is that IBM, which is unable to quickly unify its internal territory, has a growing gap with Fangyuan Computer Company.
The clearest evidence of this is that the global stock market is now almost bullish. Compared with Fangyuan Computer Company, whose market value continues to climb in the range of more than $100 billion, IBM's performance is sluggish, and its market value is only about half that of its young rival.
Some observers have pointed out that IBM may be losing money for the first time this year.
In such a dire situation, IBM's scrambling management can only hope to cover up its incompetence and make excuses for the company's losses by exposing the unethical methods of its competitors.
According to the blue giant, Fang Yuan, Zheru, and EA are really guilty of a lot.
First of all, the manufacturers of the standard camp of Fangyuan computer, led by Fangyuan Computer Company, have hoarded Juqi and almost monopolized the 256KB dynamic random access memory market in the United States, making the mainstream products of other computer companies almost to the point of no rice cooking.
Secondly, the high-end semiconductor factory controlled by Tang Huan has the world's leading 1.5nm and the latest 1nm process level. It is Intel foundry microprocessor Intel 80386, and all the 20MHz, 25MHz, and 33MHz operating frequency versions of the finished products are detained for their own use, while computers made by other companies can only be equipped with Intel80386 running at 12.5MHz.
Read the full article tomorrow morning. If you accidentally click on the mobile phone client, you can press and hold the chapter name on the directory interface to download it again.
……
The 32-bit PC war, which began in full swing in the second half of last year, has lasted for almost a year now.
All parties have evolved from the earliest simple hardware cost performance to the overall value of today's competition platform, which in turn makes the position of third-party manufacturers more and more important.
IBM's painstaking PS/2 personal computer is a new architecture that is overturned and rebuilt, closed and licensed, and the existing series of products from Intel8088, Intel8086 to Intel80286 have been thoroughly sorted out, and the flagship product supporting the latest microprocessor Intel80386 has been launched.
According to the blue giant's consistent step-by-step and mastery of the idea, the first step is to clean up the previous IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers that suck their own blood, and then enjoy the territory laid down by the IBM-PC standard; Then the second step is a matter of course, and you will have to compete with the Fangyuan PC.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven.
The IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers led by Compaq Computer did not dare to copy the PS/2 architecture computer, but they were unwilling, and the tenacious vitality that broke out made the originally confident IBM a little caught off guard.
It not only took the lead in launching a personal computer that supports the latest microprocessor Intel 80386, but also tried to develop a new generation of open bus technology comparable to the PS/2 microchannel architecture on the basis of the IBM-PC/AT, which has been abandoned by Big Blue. According to the latest disclosed information, this achievement will be ripe next year at the latest.
If successful, this upgrade plan will not only be a serious blow to IBM, but also a great irony - after all, the blue giant is touting the superiority of the PS/2 architecture while lobbying customers to abandon the IBM-PC/AT architecture, which has been judged to be old and has no future.
As a result, Compaq Computer, a member of the "six doors" of the IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturer's camp, has made the old IBM-PC/AT architecture sprout new sprouts and rejuvenate.
In contrast, IBM, which tries its best to fool customers into paying more money to buy PS/2, can be said to have lost a lot of money and smeared its own golden signboard.
At the same time, the IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers who went to the black on the road of cost performance really used the slogan of "the computer is enough" to stabilize many customers, and did not let IBM, which thought that "PS/2 came out, all the thieves of IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers were the heads" had an absolute upper hand.
It must be pointed out that another major contribution to the success of IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers is that the high quality and low price of the products have attracted many programmers to develop a large number of utilities for the platform of IBM-PC and MS-DOS, including applications with decent functions and video games with good playability.
IBM's PS/2 is a newly designed personal computer platform, and its operating system is OS/2, which has powerful features including multitasking, and MS-DOS cannot catch up.
However, OS/2 is not perfect. It is often criticized for its high hardware requirements, and for smooth operation, it is best to have a personal computer with a capacity of 2MB or more.
According to the rumors released by Microsoft, the co-developer of OS/2 and the contradictory IBM, the reason why OS/2 is not efficient is because IBM places too much emphasis on the rules and regulations of software engineering management, which in turn leads to unsatisfactory code execution efficiency written by both parties.
But in any case, the combination of PS/2 and OS/2 is technically better than the combination of IBM-PC compatible machines and MS-DOS. However, the former suffered from an embarrassing situation similar to Apple's graphical user interface, personal computer MAC, and no third-party software support in the early stage.
In fact, the prosperity of rich software support on the IBM-PC platform did not exist from the beginning, but was supported by the head of IBM's personal computer department at the time, Don Brown. Estlic has made great efforts to attract and support Lotus Software's spreadsheet software Lotus1-2-3, DBase's database software Dbase and other ace applications, and has developed and accumulated step by step.
Bill Lowo, the current head of IBM's personal computer department, although he is also talented, his work style has a typical IBM bureaucratic gene, not as good as Don? Estrich put down his body and went to the grassroots level, and then there was a shortcoming in the layout supported by third-party software.
It's never too late to make amends. The conservative IBM has never lacked the background of being a latecomer. Bill Lowo, who realized what was wrong, was confident that he could quickly improve the situation with third-party software support.
But the tragedy is that this is a time of global DRAM prices, and the memory-sensitive PS/2 and OS/2 combination platforms have a market price of at least $5,000 or more to achieve smooth and practical specifications, and they are simply losing out to the combination of IBM-PC compatible machines and MS-DOS.
What's even worse is that IBM, which is unable to quickly unify its internal territory, has a growing gap with Fangyuan Computer Company.
The clearest evidence of this is that the global stock market is now almost bullish. Compared with Fangyuan Computer Company, whose market value continues to climb in the range of more than $100 billion, IBM's performance is sluggish, and its market value is only about half that of its young rival.
Some observers have pointed out that IBM may be losing money for the first time this year.
In such a dire situation, IBM's scrambling management can only hope to cover up its incompetence and make excuses for the company's losses by exposing the unethical methods of its competitors.
According to the blue giant, Fang Yuan, Zheru, and EA are really guilty of a lot.
First of all, the manufacturers of the standard camp of Fangyuan computer, led by Fangyuan Computer Company, hoarded Juqi and almost monopolized the 256KB dynamic random access memory market in the United States. (To be continued.) )