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Workstations in the true sense of the word, benefiting from the introduction of Motorola's 32-bit microprocessor MC68000, coupled with the various operating systems derived from UNIX without tightening the license of AT&T, together build the most critical underlying architecture of the product.

One of the earliest commercial successes in this field was Apolloputer, Inc., founded in Massachusetts in the eastern United States, Apollo Computer Company, which was even better than Fangyuan Computer Company, and everyone had many things in common.

For example, the first CPUs all coincidentally chose Motorola's MC68000. In terms of operating system, Fangyuan workstation adopts Zheru Vientiane, Apollo workstation adopts AEGIS and successor DOMAIN/OS, all of which form a closed ecosystem.

However, Tang Huan soon secretly developed his own RISC microprocessor holder, and quickly became a big killer to help Fangyuan workstation stand out. Apollo workstations have pioneered a dual MC68000 solution in terms of CPU.

This type of technology quickly spread, and even after Intel introduced the Intel80386, it was used in workstations, and Sun Microsystems has such a product line.

Of course, Fangyuan Computer Company also has multi-CPU parallel technology, but the dual MC68000 architecture is only used in low-end workstation and high-end PC models, while Holder's symmetrical multi-processor technology extends from Fangyuan workstations to Fangyuan servers and even Fangyuan supercomputers.

RISC was founded at IBM, but Tang Huan was the first person to really blaze the trail for business success. The great success of Fangyuan workstation made the industry realize the power of RISC, so they began to follow up.

IBM, which was a late aware, failed to catch up as late as SQL database DB2, and its RT, a workstation using RISC technology developed by multiple departments, ended in failure last year, once again proving that bureaucracy kills people.

Of course, this small failure was not enough to stop the Blue Giant, which learned its lessons and started working on new projects. Although Tang Huan has speculated, the specific situation still needs to be verified.

HP was not so tragic, and successfully launched the PA-RISC, which was successfully applied to the HP3000 series and HP9000 series computers. Originally, the PA-RISC was finally replaced by Itanium, which was jointly developed by HP and Intel.

DEC was not lagging behind in the development of RISC, but its PRISM plan and the company's current main product, VAX, caused conflicts and infighting, and like IBM, the project was ruined by human factors. As a result, there is no RISC microprocessor of its own for the time being.

Fortunately, DEC is not a dead brain, and another RISC product, MIPS-R2000 chip, developed by John Hennessy team of MIPS Technologies, is 6 times faster than Intel80386, so it was taken by DEC for emergency use in his workstation.

It is foreseeable that although established computer manufacturers such as IBM and DEC have temporarily encountered obstacles in the research and development of RISC, with their strong foundation, it is not a problem to finally break out.

After all, small fresh meat like Sun Microsystems has successfully launched its own RISC microprocessor, and there is no reason for the old-timers to lag behind.

The success of Sun Microsystems also shows from another perspective that the development of RISC is not only qualified by large companies, but also by small companies, supported by venture capital.

In the next few years, RISC will inevitably form a more fierce tide in the industry, and while fierce competition with each other, I am afraid that CISC manufacturers such as Motorola and Intel will not be able to stand alone.

Although the holder is in an absolute leading position at this stage, in the competitive situation where almost everyone can participate, there will be a tragedy of punching the master to death.

For example, Sun Microsystems, following NFS, is also open to its own RISC microprocessor SPARC, allowing partner companies to produce compatible products to expand its ecosystem and influence.

"This little thing is pretty lively." Tang Huan, who had never taken Sun Microsystems too seriously, shook his head with a smile, the other of the two workstation startups he personally invested in, Silicon Valley Graphics Company, was relatively honest and steadily specialized in graphics workstations.

Tang Huan was looking at the list of names on the document, thinking about the countermeasures of the workstation market in the next few years, and the assistant who was debugging the conference call system next to him reported: "Boss, it's ready. ”

"Let's get started." Tang Huan nodded and pushed away the document in front of him.

The content of this conference call is mainly to summarize the situation of the personal computer market war in the past three months, and many of the participants are middle-level backbones sitting on the front line.

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"The biggest feature of the market today is that 2MB of memory has become the mainstream configuration of personal computers. Fangyuan personal computers and compatible machines have occupied 66% of this range, and in the low-end market, Fangyuan personal computers have half of the share of compatible machines, and the high-end field is completely the world of Fangyuan personal computers. ”

"Affected by the Japan-US semiconductor trade agreement, coupled with Intel's withdrawal from the memory market, the current domestic supply of dynamic random access to memory in the United States is tight, prices are soaring, and even hoarding is occurring in circulation channels. The price of many ordinary models of the IBM-PS/2 has been raised to more than $5,000, which is obviously not selling. However, our compatible machine partners are also a little unbearable. ”

"Borland's recent launch of a set of C development tools for the IBM PC platform is very popular and inexpensive, and if it attracts enough developers, it will probably have a positive impact on IBM PC sales. However, Borland also launched a set of basic language development tools, and the conflict with Microsoft became more and more intense. ”

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Listening to the words of your subordinates, the chessboard in Tang Huan's mind kept falling.

At the subsequent high-level meeting, which was greatly reduced, Tang Huan said: "It is very commendable that everyone can pay attention to the lurking crisis while maintaining their advantage. ”

"The low-end market can't be abandoned. Since Fangyuan's PC compatible partners in the U.S. also suffer from excessive fluctuations in DRAM prices, we will provide proportional support according to their shipments and allocate the past batch of memory modules at an affordable price. ”

"Good feedback on the situation with Borland's new products. After a short handover, the price war on pure hardware has begun to enter a stalemate stage, and the next step is to see who provides the platform with greater added value, and it is time to let all kinds of killer software enter the battlefield and officially participate in the war. ”

"At least in the first half of the year, IBM is difficult to adjust the procurement cost of dynamic random access." After John Chambers made a firm judgment, he moved on to another matter, "The Fangyuan handheld computer we launched last year began to be unsalable after the freshness of the market, and now it is basically distributed as a gift to thank customers for their large purchases, and the resulting book loss is estimated to reach 100 million US dollars, which has attracted criticism from Wall Street observers." ”

This is not a surprise. It seems that the problem is still in the functionality and portability. Tang Huan waved his hand disappreciatively, "No director dares to guarantee that his film department will be a big hit." In the same way, it is impossible for Fangyuan Computer Company to make a steady profit every time it invests. ”

"Today, Fangyuan Computer Company is qualified to meet the occasional business failure for the sake of ideals." John Chambers and others agreed.

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.

……

Workstations in the true sense of the word, benefiting from the introduction of Motorola's 32-bit microprocessor MC68000, coupled with the various operating systems derived from UNIX without tightening the license of AT&T, together build the most critical underlying architecture of the product.

One of the earliest commercial successes in this field was Apolloputer, Inc., founded in Massachusetts in the eastern United States, Apollo Computer Company, which was even better than Fangyuan Computer Company, and everyone had many things in common.

For example, the first CPUs all coincidentally chose Motorola's MC68000. In terms of operating system, Fangyuan workstation adopts Zheru Vientiane, Apollo workstation adopts AEGIS and successor DOMAIN/OS, all of which form a closed ecosystem.

However, Tang Huan soon secretly developed his own RISC microprocessor holder, and quickly became a big killer to help Fangyuan workstation stand out. Apollo workstations have pioneered a dual MC68000 solution in terms of CPU.

This type of technology quickly spread, and even after Intel introduced the Intel80386, it was used in workstations, and Sun Microsystems has such a product line.

Of course, Fangyuan Computer Company also has multi-CPU parallel technology, but the dual MC68000 architecture is only used in low-end workstation and high-end PC models, while Holder's symmetrical multi-processor technology extends from Fangyuan workstations to Fangyuan servers and even Fangyuan supercomputers.

RISC was founded at IBM, but Tang Huan was the first person to really blaze the trail for business success. The great success of Fangyuan workstation made the industry realize the power of RISC, so they began to follow up.

IBM, which was a late aware, failed to catch up as late as SQL database DB2, and its RT, a workstation using RISC technology developed by multiple departments, ended in failure last year, once again proving that bureaucracy kills people.

Of course, this small failure was not enough to stop the Blue Giant, which learned its lessons and started working on new projects. Although Tang Huan has speculated, the specific situation still needs to be verified.

HP was not so tragic, and successfully launched the PA-RISC, which was successfully applied to the HP3000 series and HP9000 series computers. Originally, the PA-RISC was finally replaced by Itanium, which was jointly developed by HP and Intel.

DEC was not lagging behind in the development of RISC, but its PRISM plan and the company's current main product, VAX, caused conflicts and infighting, and like IBM, the project was ruined by human factors. As a result, there is no RISC microprocessor of its own for the time being.

Fortunately, DEC is not a dead brain, and another RISC product, MIPS-R2000 chip, developed by John Hennessy team of MIPS Technologies, is 6 times faster than Intel80386, so it was taken by DEC for emergency use in his workstation.

It is foreseeable that although established computer manufacturers such as IBM and DEC have temporarily encountered obstacles in the research and development of RISC, with their strong foundation, it is not a problem to finally break out.

After all, small fresh meat like Sun Microsystems has successfully launched its own RISC microprocessor, and there is no reason for the old-timers to lag behind.

The success of Sun Microsystems also shows from another perspective that the development of RISC is not only qualified by large companies, but also by small companies, supported by venture capital.

In the next few years, RISC will inevitably form a more fierce tide in the industry, and while fierce competition with each other, I am afraid that CISC manufacturers such as Motorola and Intel will not be able to stand alone.

Although the holder is in an absolute leading position at this stage, in the competitive situation where almost everyone can participate, there will be a tragedy of punching the master to death.

For example, Sun Microsystems, following NFS, is also open to its own RISC microprocessor SPARC, allowing partner companies to produce compatible products to expand its ecosystem and influence.

"This little thing is pretty lively." Tang Huan, who had never taken Sun Microsystems too seriously, shook his head with a smile, the other of the two workstation startups he personally invested in, Silicon Valley Graphics Company, was relatively honest and steadily specialized in graphics workstations. (To be continued.) )