"I understand ......," Motoyasu replied to the editor-in-chief's question.

"Well, let's start writing a popular science article about video games. Be quick, before next month's magazine is published. The editor-in-chief said, and after he saw Motoyasu nodding, he said, "Okay, let's talk about the next issue......

Motoyasu didn't listen to the editor-in-chief's next words, and the last thing he heard was that the editor-in-chief asked him to write a popular science article about video games.

Although Nebula is a website that mainly publishes science fiction novels, it also plays the role of popular science. Each issue has a column dedicated to emerging products or scientific concepts. Generally, there will be some works in the current issue, which interact with the content of popular science, which is probably like this.

What made Yuankang excited was that the editor-in-chief asked him to write such a popular science article. It's not that this popular science article is important, but that the functions he performs in the editorial department have changed. He used to be a review editor, and if he finishes writing this popular science article, it's no surprise that he will transform into a content editor. Although they are both editors, content editors and moderation editors are not the same.

Yuankang is really a little grateful for video games from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't expect that this small game console that can control the movement on the TV screen has really changed his fate.

Lin Yan didn't know what was happening in the editorial office of Nebula magazine, and it was developing in the direction he expected. If he still has a good relationship with the video game league, he will be very happy to hear that Nebula magazine is going to do a video game column. Because, although this kind of column is not an advertisement that costs money, the publicity effect is much stronger than that of an advertisement that costs money.

As Japan's largest science fiction magazine, Nebula has a circulation of more than 300,000 copies per issue, and although it is far less than the manga weekly, which sells millions of horrors at every turn, it is also a relatively heavy magazine in Japan. The number of people it influences, to say the least, is millions, and an advertisement with a publicity range of millions of people, as long as the product is passable, it will definitely get a publicity effect similar to an explosion. Of course, this explosion refers to the previous thing, which is not well known to the general public.

Video game arcades, as well as video game portable machines, cannot be said to be completely unknown, and no one knows about them. But it's still the kind of time that needs publicity, and it's better to have publicity than not to have it.

Lin Yan was busy preparing a company at the moment, a company that didn't seem to be necessary for its existence.

The things he put on those floppy disks have received great praise from Chiba Yuki's side. In order to have a more "equal" cooperative relationship with Chiba Yuki's family company, Lin Yan asked his father to register a company. His products will then work together in a company-to-company collaborative manner. It is not the kind of cooperation between individuals and companies that I used to do with Kakiya Tori. Although it is said that there are more taxes and fees to be paid in this way, it is undoubtedly slightly more reliable than that kind of personal cooperation.

What surprised the people of Chiba Yuki the most was not those ambiguous typing games. "Frog Crossing the River" and "The Octopus Family", as well as "The Police Catch the Thief" produced by Lin Yan in order to make up the numbers, it is not very difficult to actually produce. As long as a reliable programmer ape, with a certain amount of effort, write code well, you will definitely be able to write it.

What really surprised them was that it was Lin Yan who put the graphics operating system in the floppy disk at the request of Yuki Chiba. said that it was a graphics operating system, but in fact, in Lin Yan's opinion, it was really simple. It's so simple that it's not worth mentioning. But people outside of him don't think so.

In fact, considering that it is now the middle of 1980, the concept of a graphical operating system should have been born. However, the concept is only popular in a very small circle. No one wants the concept to spread too far until it's out there.

Because, when it spreads widely, it means competition. Graphics operating systems, although they require a lot of programming skills, are still a creative problem in the final analysis.

At this point in time, the program apes who are working on the graphics operating system hope that their ape peers have always thought that the computer interface is black and flashing with a cursor.

In fact, for these programmers, the black cursor interface is actually much better than the early graphical operation interface.

The purpose of the birth of the graphics operating system is not to use it for program apes, but to serve those users who have not been exposed to computers before.

Although, in this era, there are few people engaged in ecology, saying that I have a set of computer systems with a large enough number of machines to make my company's software used by tens of thousands of people in the world. However, if you simply calculate the number of computers you have at the moment, you will know whether a graphics operating system is feasible. Sell one and get one for the money, and you can realize that Chiba has the family business of the Nozomi family, and I feel so happy that I am dizzy.

Chiba Yuki didn't tell Lin Yan much about their family's decision, and he didn't mention everything in the family very tabooly. She has a good mentality, and she doesn't treat her family background as a burden like some people, and she can't wait to hide it and throw it away. Everything depends on your own "efforts". This is not self-improvement, but stupidity. Since the family can already provide a big stage for tens of thousands of people for one person, why should you force yourself to give up everything and participate in a grass stage team of several people.

Lin Yan also has some scruples about cooperating with the Chiba family, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to register a company. He is not like those decision-makers of the Chiba family, who don't know what a magnificent treasure the graphics operating system is. This treasure is so big that Micro Hard has been the world's most cash-rich technology company for I don't know how many years.

However, Lin Yan didn't expect to make a graphics operating system by himself and reach the level of micro-hard. Because, he has no relevant connections. The reason why the micro-hard operating system can become the mainstream. It's because it's bundled with Dark Blue Giant's computer.

In other words, for every computer sold by Deep Blue Giant, Micro Hard also sold an operating system. The reason why we can cooperate like this is, of course, not because of how good the micro-hardware operating system is. It's because the mother of Bill Gates, the boss of Micro Hard, is a director of Deep Blue Giant, and to a certain extent, she can influence Deep Blue Giant to choose a system provider.

This is also the reason why the micro-hard operating system, although it is not easy to use like a sieve, although it is not easy to use, it can always be carried on the Deep Blue Giant computer.

Moreover, Microhard's success lies not only in the connections it has, but also in the place where its company was born. It is the birthplace of the electronics industry, where almost all new technologies and all talents are born.

With the micro-hard of money accumulation, the ability to hire the best technicians, and access to the latest information, it has all the conditions needed to become a ruler.

And where is Hayashi Hiko, he is in Japan, although it seems to be the most developed country in Asia. However, on a global scale, it is still only in the second echelon. Some American manufacturers do not like to use parts from Japan, because although these parts are cheap, the quality is not so good, which will always affect the quality of their products to a certain extent. It is equivalent to smashing one's own brand.

In this context, it is an unlikely possibility that a graphics operating system from Japan can be popular all over the world.

Because, when the outside world thinks that this place produces cheap and questionable quality products. If you don't rely on the entire industrial chain to work hard, a single product is working hard, and you can't get rid of the title of inferior products in any case. If you want a group of people who have strict needs for top-notch products and are not short of money, it is really impossible.

Therefore, in general, Lin Yan's attention to the personal computer graphics operating system is not as high as his attention to those typing games.

Lin Yan didn't meet the person who was really in charge of decision-making in the Chiba Yuki family, and all his exchanges were with Chiba Yuki, the president of this unreliable game club.

The two of them reached an initial agreement that several typing games would be sold in a package, and that the graphics operating system would be sold separately. The Typing Game Bundle and the Graphics Operating System, combined to buy together, will have a certain degree of discount.

After deciding to cooperate in this way, Lin Yan went to apply for a patent for the graphics operating system. With the help of the Chiba family, it was not delayed by the reviewers, and it was quickly submitted and entered the patent protection period. This is not because Lin Yan applied for a patent because he was afraid of plagiarism from others.

Instead, he was afraid that after the "well-intentioned person" registered a patent for his things, he would use the patent to trouble him. It's not like this hasn't happened before. There have really been a lot of such things in the entire history of patents.

There are many silly white sweets, thinking that this world is particularly simple and beautiful, and they have developed a product and publicized it all over the world. But I didn't want to be sampled, and the company that quickly copied the registered patent got the patent first, and then turned around and was sued by the company that prevented the product to the point that I couldn't take care of myself.

Regarding Lin Yan's concerns, the people behind Chiba Yuki are also very understanding. In fact, they also learned about the current cooperation dilemma between Lin Yan and the video game alliance, that is, the persimmon family and Dongli.

This kind of situation, which is almost devastating for Hayashi, is happening all the time in the world, even in Japan. There are many things in this world that are nothing more than a balance.

This is true for politics, and it is true for business. It's like Lin Yan originally planned to cooperate with the persimmon family and Dongli. The idea is sales, hardware, software, such a model.

If, the strength of the three has always been very even. Or Lin Yan's software ability is unique and cannot be used by others. Then we can continue to work together.

However, how can software be unique? Lin Yan just has a few more games in his head.

Whether it's Space Invaders, or Bomberman, or Tank Wars, or the rest of the animatronic pet machines, they're just a piece of code. No matter how concise Lin Yan's writing is and how efficient his execution is, there are people who can achieve the same height.

Because, the reason why Lin Yan can be so concise and efficient is because he remembers the contributions of his predecessors.

However, Lin Yan is still very grateful to Persimmon and Dongli, two companies that are definitely not small in Japan and can be called behemoths. Because after cooperating with them, Lin Yan understood a truth, in this world, although there are some times to talk about feelings, but most of the time, he still relies on strength to speak. Without strength as a foundation, without the most basic chips, no matter how powerful the friendship is, it is a rootless duckweed. Therefore, now his cooperation with the Chiba Yuki family is much more cautious than last time.

Everything is done in the most formal way. You can't ignore something else just because you have a good relationship. Relationships can go bad, but a good system cannot. It is much better to be a villain first and then a gentleman than a gentleman to be pit into a beggar.

In the final analysis, Lin Yan was just a technician in his last life. I don't know much about other places. What he is doing now is not so much on the way to the top of his life as it is about accumulating experience. He has suffered all the losses he should have suffered, and he has almost grown.

In this world, there are a few people who have not suffered too many losses, and they have successfully succeeded.

Chiba Yuki's grandfather, who is also the current leader of the Chiba family group, has only one son, and his one son, Chiba Yuki's daughter.

Although his son and granddaughter can be described as intelligent. However, he did not dare to let his son take the helm of the entire family group. Because, controlling a huge group is really not as easy as imagined. It's not that you can take it for granted, you can do it.

He always felt that he had a son, although he was quite powerful, but his ability had not yet arrived. Moreover, there is an almost paranoid overconfidence in his own abilities. The source of this overconfidence, which is actually very easy to explain, comes from him, who is a father.

This is also very easy to explain, just like a prince who has lived in a palace since he was a child, his ears and lips are familiar with his father, that is, the king, how to run the country, he will also think that he has the ability to rule the country. But what about the facts? History continues to advance, and there are not too many stories of Lao Tzu's heroes and bears.

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Today, it's time to get off work, and instead of working overtime at the magazine, Motoyasu has come to Akihabara, the birthplace of video games, and he wants to do a survey here. (To be continued.) )