IBM's personal computer standards are so flawed that it is not considered to be the best, but it has relied on its monopoly advantage to achieve market success.

Tang Huan hated this, not because of the noble sentiment of complaining about the interests of consumers and the whole world, but because it influenced the layout he conceived.

For example, in Tang Huan's view, the manufacturing of high-end products for enterprise applications, such as servers/workstations, would best be similar to the model of the U.S. military industrial system - building the production of some parts in the civilian field, that is, getting the support of cost advantages from the personal computer industry with more manufacturers.

In order to achieve this goal, the personal computer standard must have a complete and professional system from the beginning, and it cannot be like the IBM-PC standard, which waits until the problem is found and then patches to deal with it, and is passively driven by the whip of market demand.

The Intel8086 branch of the second-generation Fangyuan computer, similar to IBM-PC, works in real mode, and the memory access range is only 1MB, but no matter the hardware or software, it can smoothly transition to the MC68000 branch only through parameter settings, and directly access more than 1MB of memory.

But here in the IBM-PC standard, the motherboard BIOS and the hard disk MBR are two obstacles that cannot be avoided.

Because of its traditional business such as mainframes, IBM is naturally worried that personal computers are too powerful and will threaten the profits of its high-end products, so various measures are relatively conservative.

And Tang Huan, who also considers it holistically, does not have the burden of similar high-end products, and is not afraid to wear shoes barefoot. This is an area that he needs to actively break through.

With such a huge divergence of interests. Tang Huan naturally wanted to knock IBM-PC into the dust. The square computer of his own design is arched to the throne of personal computer standards.

But this process is full of strength and power struggle, in the original time and space, the blue giant because of the need to weigh the profits of high-end products, led to IBM-PC's decision-making mistakes, and finally made a wedding dress for compatible manufacturers.

Now Japanese companies are so enthusiastic about fighting for authorization around the second-generation Fangyuan computer, if it is not well controlled, it will also end up in a tragic situation of being ridden by his son on Lao Tzu's shoulder. It's not impossible.

It is necessary to let go, but also not to get out of one's own control, in which the subtlety of the grasp of the scale is in one mind, even if it is a reborn who has the advantage of information asymmetry, he has to rely on his own efforts to figure it out carefully.

During the long voyage from Tokyo, Japan to San Francisco, USA, Tang Huan has been thinking about this question.

……

After the plane landed, Tang Huan got into the car directly and rushed to the Treasure Hospital.

"How are those old people from the mainland?" Tang Huan asked worriedly.

"Only some of them have completed the surgery, and the results are good. Others are still preparing. Tang Wenhuan handed over a statistical table, which listed the medical progress of each person.

To avoid trouble. They all used pseudonyms, and Tang Huan was confused.

"Everybody's in a good mood." Tang Wenmao added: "Walking, chatting, playing chess, etc., in his spare time, the activities are quite rich, and even the old Mr. Hu from Baodao has become one of the chess friends." ”

Tang Huan frowned when he heard this, the two sides really got together, and they didn't know how they got along.

However, Hu Yinmeng's father was basically a civil official during the Republic of China, and it stands to reason that there should not be too many contradictions and conflicts.

Tang Huan's idea was almost overturned when he walked across a lawn in the hospital.

I saw that Father Hu was pointing to the chessboard across the stone table, arguing with the old man opposite with a red face and a thick neck, and it seemed that the sequelae of the stroke were not so obvious.

It's really a pair of old children, Tang Huan walked over speechlessly, coughed lightly, and sat down.

Seeing Tang Huan, Father Hu's eyes lit up, and even his voice became much clearer, "Don't think that I am afraid of you if there are many of you, the entire territory, including this hospital, belongs to my son-in-law." ”

Tang Huan heard the black line in his head, and said in his heart that for a game of chess, are you so on the line.

Fortunately, the aunt that Hu's father found after the divorce rushed over and persuaded the person away.

……

"Datang, just now Old Man Hu said that you are his son-in-law, is there really such a thing?"

"That, still dating...... The relationship is not clear now......"

"Alright, don't hide it, I see. I said, how can this guy be so confident, and he has a big backer in his feelings. ”

"How do you feel now?"

"Yes, the date of the operation has been set."

"That's good. My father-in-law, just let it go, he just had a stroke some time ago. ”

"Datang, you young people don't understand the living habits of our old men, and you have been fighting all your life, your old father-in-law, when he first came to the hospital, he couldn't speak well, but do you see him like that just now, like a person who has had a stroke?"

"Okay, it's healthier to be noisy, maybe you can make friends without fighting."

"You're right, we're on good terms now."

……

As soon as Tang Huan got off the plane, he came to the hospital to visit everyone, and this gesture of respecting the elderly made these elderly people and the family members who accompanied them very appreciative.

In fact, in addition to attaching importance to this relationship, Tang Huan also because he will be very busy in the next period, so he has to come over early to take a look, so as not to be rude and make the little brother-in-law on the mainland embarrassed.

After greeting them one by one, Tang Huan was ready to get his master's degree certificate.

In order to graduate from graduate school, Tang Huan, who could not follow the regular coursework arrangement, made no effort to make up for it in other ways, such as in the Institute of ElectricalalandElectronics Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, and brushed his level to the fourth level.

IEEE was founded in 1963 by the merger of IRE, the Institute of Radio Engineers, founded in 1912, and AIEE, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, founded in 1884, and is headquartered in New York. It is one of the largest professional and technical organizations in the world. The standards defined by industry have a great influence.

Famous chairmen in the history of the IEEE have the inventor of the telephone, Alexander? Bell, Frederick, the father of Silicon Valley? Emmons? Terman and Hewlett-Packard founder William? Hewlett et al.

Of course. The status of IEEE can only be understood by insiders, and it may not be as well-known as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organizer of the Academy Awards.

There are five levels of membership in IEEE: AssociateMember, StudentMember, Member, SeniorMember, and Fellow.

With the achievements of technical papers such as floating point algorithm specification, local area network, etc., Tang Huan is currently mixed up to the level of senior member.

In addition, Tang Huan vigorously funded the construction of the university's BBS, and poured water at every opportunity, making his ID synonymous with technical masters in the West Coast university circle.

Tang Huan also cooperated with his teacher Cai Shaotang, and carried out considerable research on ChuasCircuit, Cai's circuit, and Memristor memristors.

The former is a simple nonlinear electronic circuit design that can exhibit standard chaos theory behavior.

Due to how easy it is to make this circuit. making it an example of a ubiquitous real-world chaotic system, spreading so fast and wide that some have even praised it as a "model of chaotic systems".

Originally, Cai's circuit was published by Cai Shaotang in 1983 when he was a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Japan, and now it has come out in advance, bringing Cai Shaotang a higher academic reputation.

Compared with the simplicity and practicality of the Chua circuit, complex memristors are currently only suitable for theoretical and laboratory research.

As early as 1971, Cai Shaotang, who was already working at the University of California, Berkeley, based on the theory of electronics. In addition to resistors, capacitors, and inductive elements, it is predicted that there is also a memristor as a fourth basic element of circuits

As a passive electronic component. A memristor is similar to a resistor in that it generates and maintains a safe current through a device, but unlike a resistor, a memristor can "remember" the amount of charge that has previously passed through it when the power is turned off.

The two sets of memristors produce the same function as transistors, but are much smaller, so their significance to the computer industry is self-evident.

Originally, HP developed a new generation of non-volatile memory, ResistiveRandom-AccessMemory, which is considered a form of memristor.

In other words, the memristor is too advanced, and now EEPROM - electric erasable programmable read-only memory is in the ascendant, and the FlashMemory used in USB flash disk - flash memory has not yet come out, and the next generation of RRAM is naturally in the past.

Tang Huan researched memristors just for the master's course, and the goal was achieved, so he naturally refused to continue to spend energy on it.

Cai Shaotang didn't ask too much about this, and the student he brought with him, whether it was academic attainments or business achievements, made him have nothing to say.

"Teacher, you've been staying at the University of California, Berkeley, so it's better to go out and share your research results." After getting the master's certificate in hand, Tang Huan ran to Cai Shaotang and agitated.

"I have plans to become a visiting professor, and I'm in touch with Japan." Obviously, Cai Shaotang has already planned for a long time.

"Teacher, with me as a student, you are reluctant to go far." Tang Huan smiled slightly, "Soon after, I will have a trip to Chinese mainland, and one of my plans is to cooperate with local universities." There is a thirst for talents, and if the teacher goes over, he will definitely get more R&D resources. ”

"Go to China!" Cai Shaotang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he was already moved.

"Then it's decided, teacher, you wait for me to reply." Tang Huan struck while the iron was hot and trapped the other party.

"Look at you're in a hurry." Cai Shaotang shook his head with a smile, and asked after a while: "After completing the master's degree, do you have any plans to continue your studies and study for a doctorate?" ”

"I don't want to work so hard anymore, this master's degree was only studied at the request of my aunt." Tang Huan simply expressed his position.

"Many of your subordinates are PhDs from famous universities, so if you stop now, won't there be any pressure?" Cai Shaotang quipped.

"I'm their boss, barely an exception." Tang Huan laughed, and was determined not to go to school anymore.

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After Tang Huan returned to Cupertino's Zheru headquarters, the first subordinate he recruited was Owen, the lawyer in charge of copyright? Rabaport.

This loyal dog of Apple in the original time and space is also very professional in Zheru at present, and he is naturally deeply respected by Tang Huan.

"Recently, IBM has been in frequent contact with us for the copyright of Hanka's Chinese technology, and the lawsuit initiated by its personal computer department, IBM-PC and the second-generation Fangyuan computer, has stopped." Irving? Rababot introduced the current situation while handing Tang Huan the main legal model that had been drafted.

Thanks to the powerful typesetting function of his word processing software WordEasy, Tang Huan can easily see the important terms marked on them, but the interlocking legal logic still makes his head like a fight.

However, this kind of document should have been made together, and Tang Huan couldn't make a decision in one word, so he let it go if he couldn't stand it.

"In addition to Hanka's Chinese technology copyright, there is also the copyright of the second-generation Fangyuan computer, the Japanese company is very interested, but I only plan to release the Intel8086 branch, but this set of technology is a whole, how to try to ensure that the copyright of the MC68000 branch is not exploited by others, it depends on you to design a defensive fortress." Tang Huan vs. Owen? Rababot was entrusted with the task.

"Boss, don't worry, no one wants to take advantage of us." Irving? Rababot's tone was scrappy.

"You're going to be attending the most recent high-level meetings, and it's important to understand the huge business stakes involved." Tang Huan stood up and motioned for the other party to go to the meeting with him, which was invisibly elevating Owen? Rababot's status.

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With the gradual adjustment of the factory, the cost of the IBM-PC has been optimized, the production volume has increased significantly, and the memory capacity of its benchmark model has increased from 16 KB to 32 KB, while the price has been slightly reduced.

Simeone sarcastically quipped about this: "IBM is not suddenly very kind to users, but only because one of the so-called troikas on the IBM-PC platform, the spreadsheet VisiCalc, has a memory capacity of 32KB to run all its functions." (To be continued......)

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