The world in 1980 was a world of the Cold War and a world of turmoil. However, the new technological revolution has begun to sprout, and in the Silicon Valley of the United States, all kinds of high-tech enterprises open almost every day, and of course, there are also enterprises that fail every day.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft will also usher in its pivot in 1980, when IBM chose Microsoft to write key operating system software for its PC, but Microsoft did not actually complete the task, but instead started a company named Tim Brown in Seattle. Patterson bought the rights to an operating system, QDOS, and provided it to IBM with appropriate rewrites.

However, it was not until July 27, 1981 that Microsoft released the MS-DOS operating system.

Seattle, which is not known at first glance, is the same as San Francisco, in the western part of the country, except that one is in the north and the other is in the south. In the future, Seattle is famous for three things, the first is Boeing, which was the headquarters of Boeing until 2001; The second is Starbucks, and Seattle is the birthplace of Starbucks; The third is Microsoft, where nearly 60,000 of the 68,000 software engineering professionals in Seattle later worked at Microsoft, taking 10 billion yuan in salaries from Microsoft and other companies every year, and generating more than 25 billion yuan in sales.

It was late March 1980, and the temperature was still a little cold in Seattle, near 48 degrees north latitude, which corresponds to Harbin in northeastern China, but in a hotel called Knoxde, Yang Xia and Liu Yuesheng were enjoying a steaming breakfast and coffee.

Liu Yuesheng is the legal counsel engaged by Hantang (Xiangcheng Port) Investment Co., Ltd. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, one of the youngest lawyers in the Hong Kong government, good at economic contracts and tax matters, this is exactly the talent Yang Xia needs.

In fact, Liu Yuesheng is really capable.

Liu Yuesheng came to Seattle three days in advance and sent Redmond's Microsoft Bill. Gates and Paul. Alan was contacted, and preliminary negotiations were held; Meantime. Also found named Tim. Patterson's Programming Engineer.

At this time. Taking advantage of the breakfast time, the two discussed what to say to Bill and Paul when they went to see Bill and Paul later, Microsoft, the development is not good or bad now. Last year. Microsoft sold $500,000 in products. Among the many small companies, Microsoft's life is underdeveloped, but it has more than enough food and clothing.

From the impression of preliminary negotiations. Bill is not very interested in venture capital, but Paul feels that he can accept the limelight, because after venture capital, the company can become bigger and stronger faster on a bigger and higher platform.

Of course, IBM had not yet found Microsoft at this time, otherwise, with the shrewdness of Bill and Paul, they would not have lost sight of Microsoft's future.

However, Bill and the others met at 4 p.m. in Redmond for a meeting, and at this time in the morning, the two decided to meet with programming engineer Tim. Patterson.

In this era, freelance programming engineers are not mixed well, and many people initially embarked on this road because of personal interest, because the PC has just begun to sprout, the market has not yet opened, and the IT road has not yet been smoothed.

Sometimes, programming engineers make up a good piece of software, but it is difficult to find a buyer; Sometimes, a large company makes a programming request, which is often beyond the strength of the programming engineer or software company; For example, after receiving a commission from IBM, Microsoft eventually bought Tim. Patterson's software was refined to complete IBM's target.

Tim didn't understand where this Chinese named Liu Yuesheng learned that he had written the QDOS operating system, and actually made a special trip from Xiangcheng Port to visit him, saying that their company was interested in buying the copyright, right to use QDOS and a related right to do so.

At that time, Tim was a little excited, and asked Liu Yuesheng about the knowledge of computer operating systems, but Liu Yuesheng was born in liberal arts and was really a layman for computers, so Liu Yuesheng had to leave words such as "If Mr. Tim intends to transfer, his boss Mr. Yang Xia will make a special trip to negotiate three days later".

Yang Xia came to talk about QDOS operating system? Yes, Yang Xia at this time can even be said to be a first-class computer software programming expert in China, large programs may not work, but some small applications are not a problem at all.

Is it another miracle? Of course not.

Strictly speaking, Yang Xia did not learn computer knowledge in his previous life, he could use computers, and he was just like ordinary liberal arts students, who could use computer codewords, typesetting, printing, and at most adding tables and drawings.

Yang Xia remembered Microsoft because he had a book of "Chinese High-Tech History" in his mind, which recorded Microsoft's turning point in 1980 when talking about the background of industrial development.

It was also because of this record that Yang Xia decided to intervene.

Yang Xia doesn't want to destroy, he just wants to get a piece of the pie, after all, the future of Microsoft is indeed a big cake, Yang Xia will share some, and it will not affect the interests of Bill and Paul, after all, their later companies are also on the market, and others have also shared the cake, but it is just a matter of dividing it first and then dividing it, and many people will share it or a few people will share it.

When he was on the front line in Annan, Yang Xia remembered this incident, but at that time, Yang Xia was unheard of and penniless, not to mention injecting money into Weijiao, that is, he didn't even have the money for a ticket to the United States, and he couldn't even go through the procedures for going abroad.

Later, Yang Xia arrived at Xiangcheng Port and was also worried about this, but Yang Xia worked hard to code words, and only produced an output value of 80,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, all of which added up to only tens of thousands of meters.

Originally, Yang Xia was ready to give up on this matter, or, after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war in September 80, he would go to Microsoft after getting money from the oil market, but Yang Xia did not dare to guarantee that there would be no effect on finding Microsoft at that time, if IBM had found Microsoft, even if Microsoft had not found Tim. Patterson, wouldn't a smart man like Bill understand that he had good luck and that Bill would still divide the cake that had already reached his bowl?

Of course, it's not impossible to divide a piece, but the price may be ten times and a hundred times.

However, Taizong gave him 10 million US dollars, so that Yang Xia suddenly found a fulcrum, what did he say, if you give me a fulcrum, I can pry the entire earth.

However, this alone will not work, forced investment is unjustifiable, and coupled with his Chinese identity, it is likely to arouse the disgust of white people. Therefore, Yang Xia took advantage of Song Mingzhao's establishment of Hantang International in Xiangcheng Port and recruited people for more than a month, starting from the simplest BASIC language, and devouring computer knowledge, especially the knowledge of computer software design, in about 40 days, which forced Yang Xia, a computer idiot, to become a computer software expert.

Forty days, from scratch, to generate an expert, for others, may be incredible, but for Yang Xia, the speed can only be said to be not slow. After all, a computer language is a completely different language and thinking.

Meet Tim and be at Tim's house.

People who are engaged in computer software don't seem to be very handsome, and they don't pay attention to image, Tim is also like this, Tim's wife saw a guest coming, and immediately went to make coffee for Yang Xia and the two, but Tim's three-year-old child seemed to like Yang Xia very much, and always jumped up and down on Yang Xia, which made Tim a little annoyed.

"Come, Jason, Uncle has a gift for you." As a reborn, Yang Xia pays great attention to some details, and wherever he goes, he will place a small number of rare and suitable items in his bag.

"Thank you, uncle, this, how to play?" Jason has a rattle in his hand, and while content, he won't play.

"Come, uncle, teach you." Yang Xia holds the drum handle in one hand, and as the fingers rotate, the drumstick constantly hits the drum surface and forms a drum sound with a strong sense of rhythm.

In the early days, the rattle was not a toy, but a musical instrument.

The talks went very smoothly, but instead of buying out Tim's operating system directly, Yang Xia invested $200,000 to set up a company and hire Tim. Patterson is the technical director, specializing in software development, and his name is Hantang (米国) Software Co., Ltd., as for the QDOS operating system that Tim now owns, he sold it to Hantang Software for $30,000. In addition, it is Hantang Software that pays Tim an annual salary of 80,000 yuan every year.

At this time, the income of software engineers is really not high.

Yang Xiatong's divine memories of "The History of High Technology in China", combined with some memories of his previous life, coupled with his own understanding of the future computer industry and services, provided Tim with a forecast for the development of the computer industry before leaving Seattle to guide the research of Hantang Software at a macro level.

In fact, from the perspective of the development trajectory of software companies, most software companies, from the beginning of their establishment, have been supported by talented computer professionals, but most of them have fallen on the road to the final victory, and the most important reason is the lack of investment.

Hantang software, just a test of Yang Xia, but also Yang Xia's first investment outside the port of Xiangcheng, after all, the future of the computer industry is too huge, Yang Xia does not ask how much money this company makes, as long as they can keep track of the most advanced software design concepts, can gather a group of computer talents, especially to provide domestic computer talents with an internship or show their talents, Yang Xia is content.

But is the future of Hantang Software really just like this? If that's the case, then Yang Xia, a genius reborn, should definitely be beaten! (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter was written last night, but I didn't think it was good, so I reversed it and started over, and it was written very slowly in the morning, so it's good.