"The coexistence of studiOS and FreeDOS provides a very friendly platform transition mechanism. However, this also raises the question of whether studiOS is a real operating system and not an upgraded and enhanced version of the FreeDOS shell. ”

It should be pointed out that although Zheru did not make a big deal of it, FreeDOS in the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers was indeed upgraded to a 32-bit version. This is probably the most powerful DOS operating system in the industry, and it naturally brings many new features. However, our focus is on studiOS with a graphical user interface, which is what the average user is most interested in. ”

"The splash screen of studiOS is a simple animation, with a book composed of green lines slowly flipping on a black screen background, and progress bars moving from bottom to top on the left and right, like candles, quite a kind of civilization fire in it."

"You can see it, Zheru's design team. A lot of thought has been put into the details, which has been reflected in many subsequent user experiences. ”

"Actually, the splash screen of studiOS is much more than just nice and logo. In this process, the studiOS kernel checks whether the hardware, including CPU, memory, graphics card, etc., meets the operating system operating standards. If it fails, it means that the computer does not have the basic conditions needed to run studiOS. ”

"When studiOS is successfully launched, the interface in front of us is called WorkSpace, which is like a room with a lot of furniture, and there are a lot of things called icons for us to operate and interact with."

"The table-like bar at the bottom of the screen is called the taskbar. studiOS is likewise a multitasking operating system. This taskbar is used to help manage multiple tasks on the run. ”

"The leftmost element on the taskbar, called 'Start', is actually the menu that we're very familiar with. As the name suggests, users can find all the interfaces to control their computer's resources here. For example, File Explorer is a tool that graphically manages all the files on your computer. ”

"The Start menu is like a big locker, grouping together all the interfaces that control your computer's resources; The icons on WorkSpace represent a more concise and convenient way to operate. For example, double-clicking the 'My Computer' icon will directly call up File Explorer. ”

"Different from the single-button mouse used in Apple's personal computer product MAC, Fangyuan personal computer has always used a two-button mouse, so it has more operation combinations in the graphical user interface of studiOS, which is not as simple and clear as MAC, which is a bit of a test of the user's understanding."

For example, you can click the left mouse button to select a target, double-click the left mouse button to run the selected target, and right-click to invoke the action menu associated with the target. Double-clicking the right mouse button, haha......, doesn't seem to have any effect. ”

Zheru combined this set of mouse operation methods, collectively known as mouse gestures. It is said that in addition to the predefined mouse gestures built into the system, users can also define the mouse gestures that they are used to. In this way, the role of the mouse is clearly taken to a greater level, and the user may not be able to fully remember these dazzling mouse gestures. On the contrary, it loses the original purpose of the intuitive and simple operation of the graphical user interface. ”

"Of course, if the user is patient. Explore the mysteries of mouse gestures and discover a lot of interesting and useful features. Xiaobian accidentally found one such function, and now I share it with you. ”

"There's a document-like icon on WorkSpace called Software License Agreement. Double-click on it, and studiOS will automatically invoke the system's built-in text handler to open it with a whole bunch of copyright-related notices. Don't bother, we press the left and right mouse buttons at the same time, and the document will automatically turn the page, isn't it convenient? ”

"The mouse feature we really want to introduce is draganddrop – drag and drop, or drag and drop. Let's also take the software license agreement document as an example. Select it, and without letting go of the left mouse button, drag towards the trash can icon. We can see that the icon of the software license agreement document is moved with the drag of the icon, and after reaching the position of the trash can icon, release the left mouse button, put down the icon of the software license agreement document, and then an animation of the progress bar appears, and the file is thrown into the trash, that is, it is deleted. This operation is a process of mouse drag-and-drop function, isn't it simple, vivid and interesting? ”

However, this deletion is not a real deletion, just like the trash can in reality has to go through the process of emptying, we can completely delete the files inside by clearing the trash can. Now, studiOS gives us an opportunity to take regret pills, open the trash, select the deleted software license agreement, restore it, and the document is back in WorkSpace. ”

"Let's continue the demonstration, insert a floppy disk inside the floppy drive, open File Explorer, and easily find the floppy disk. Drag and drop the software license agreement you just restored, and this is a file copying process. From now on, users no longer have to go through the trouble of typing a line of commands in the DOS environment when performing this routine operation. ”

"If the file is being copied for too long, we can find a card game in the start menu and wait while we play."

"Behind this process, there is the multitasking feature of studiOS, which Apple's MAC does not provide."

"Running multiple tasks at the same time naturally puts a huge strain on memory. However, there is no need to worry too much, because another difference between studiOS and MAC is that it is a hard disk-based operating system that can use the space on the hard disk to make the four generations of Fangyuan PCs run more programs than they actually have with memory capacity support. ”

"I have been working tirelessly for 36 hours, and naturally I am not only dedicated to these things. Personal computers only have to make sense if they have a real purpose. To do this, we tested the mainstream apps in the market. to evaluate the compatibility of the new platform of the fourth generation Fangyuan personal computer. ”

"As a result, we found that the compatibility of 32-bit FreeDOS with older versions of the application was as expected, and the performance was indeed much improved."

In other words, even third-party software developers don't have time to launch new products in the studiOS environment. Users can still benefit from the four generations of Fangyuan PCs. ”

"In fact, as the world's largest software company, how could Zheru make the newly released graphical user interface operating system studiOS alone, and its own office software spreadsheet CGrid, word processing WordEasy, database EBase, PowerPresenter and other heavyweight products have all launched new versions that support studiOS, and the performance is quite good."

"Third-party software developers are lagging behind, mainly because they still haven't adapted to the new programming architecture of studiOS. However, there are still some manufacturers that have launched beta versions, such as WordPerfect, another equally good word processing software. Just in the course of testing. I don't know if there is a problem with the floppy disk, when operating the floppy disk file, there is a blue screen of death. ”

"We have reported this situation to Fangyuan Computer Company and WordPerfect Company, hoping to find the cause of the Blue Screen of Death."

In addition, this evaluation is mainly from the perspective of user use, studiOS also includes OpenType fonts, TCP/IP networking, hardware acceleration OpenGL, ObjectLinkingandEmbedding - object linking and embedding or OLE and other new technologies, because it is mainly oriented to the professional field. I won't overstate. ”

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The so-called sleepless 36 hours of work of Byte magazine was launched. It was a great success, and it was still in short supply after being reprinted several times in the current issue, and the content in the review was quoted by many third-party media, which can be described as infinite.

"PCMagazine", which is one step behind, can't help but feel angry when he sees this scene. simply followed the trend and launched a sleepless 72-hour cohesive evaluation report.

In response to this phenomenon, many media colleagues have exclaimed, is the working environment of magazines in the IT field so difficult? I don't know if everyone is pretending to be confused to have fun.

PCMagazine's specialty in review reporting is in the hardware field, so it went to great lengths to get a license from Fangyuan Computer to open the main chassis of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computer prototypes. This makes its review report lose the advantage of timeliness, but the characteristics are very strong.

The main hardware configuration of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype includes: CPU is a 25MHz MC68020, memory capacity is 1MB, as well as a 40MB hard disk, 2D accelerated graphics card, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, 10MB transfer speed Ethernet card, etc.

PCMagazine has shown an exclusive unboxing photo in the report, and on top of this, more memory has been added, and the more powerful 2D accelerated graphics card has been replaced to challenge the performance limits of the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers.

In the end, PCMagazine excitedly came to the conclusion that some software that could only run on Fangyuan workstations before had the potential to be represented on four generations of Fangyuan personal computers.

This is good news, but it means that the user base of software developers is expected to expand.

In addition, "PCMagazine" has access to a variety of expansion cards on the slots of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computer prototypes, which can finally break the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers, and many drivers are defective, resulting in the frequent occurrence of the blue screen of death.

Fortunately, the reporting style of "PCMagazine" this time is not like the last time I found the quality problem of the third generation of Fangyuan personal computers, "everyone come and see, I have discovered the big secret", I am afraid that the world will not be chaotic, but actively feedback to Fangyuan Company, and analyze it rationally in the evaluation report.

At the end of the article, PCMagazine jokes about studiOS, a new graphical user interface operating system, arguing that its name is not only StandardUIOS, a variant of the standard user interface operating system, but also StudyOS, which requires a learning process for all groups, including vendors, developers, and users.

PCMagazine's coverage lagged behind, but with more exclusive results, it also achieved gratifying sales.

All in all, the media involved have made a lot of money from the theme of four generations of Fangyuan personal computers, and then created a momentum of "a new computer era is coming".

However, the experience of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers being played bad by the evaluation media also gave people with ulterior motives the opportunity to be sarcastic, so that the term "blue screen of death" began to become popular.

No matter how noisy and noisy the various voices are, Fangyuan's PC competitors are feeling the pressure created by "a new computer era is coming".

IBM is in an awkward position, because it has stockpiled a considerable amount of Intel 80286 before, and although the second suppliers are often more than a year behind in the research and development schedule, once they launch compatible products, they will exceed these Intel original CPUs in terms of performance, which in turn makes the IBM-PC compatible machine faster than the IBM-PC genuine machine.

As for the new personal computer platform PS/2 that IBM is developing, because it has a 32-bit mainframe that has to be maintained, it can only continue to revolve around the 16-bit platform represented by the large backlog of Intel80286, and it is simply impossible to raise its head in front of the 32-bit fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer that is about to come out.

But IBM had to endure it, and it needed to re-control the messy IBM-PC standard camp through a redesign of the personal computer architecture.

As for Apple's MAC, it is impossible to mention it, and the top management is busy with infighting.

After Steve Jobs' failed coup attempt, John Scully, with the support of the board of directors, began to restructure the company, putting his former best friend in the position of chairman and global technology architect, but the other party was alone in the company's power structure with no line of power to connect.

The founder of Apple has actually gone out of the game, and has even been completely reduced to a marginal role in the IT tide led by Tang Huan. (To be continued.) )