"And when will our mainframe program begin?" Sanders asked suddenly.

Catherine was stunned for a moment.

"Mainframe? Supercomputer? ”

Sanders nodded.

"Without supercomputers, we would never have been able to enter the mainstream...... The configuration of the personal computer is too weak. ”

Catherine nodded, indeed.

"Look, what if we're going to dig Seymour Clay over?"

Sanders was stunned for a moment, this matter seemed to be a little inappropriate with himself. Seymour Clay is better than Sanders in terms of prestige and social fame, and he really doesn't know how to answer.

But after thinking about it, he said, "No problem, but now is not the best time." I can see that Seymour Clay has a fanatical passion for supercomputers, and I don't think there's anything wrong with giving him enough permissions. It's just that if you want to poach him, it's probably better to wait until the end of the year or next year. The contradiction between him and his own company is getting worse and worse, and we just need to wait until the water is done. ”

Catherine nodded in satisfaction.

"Sanders, so be it...... You'd better start with a mainframe plan, uh...... Don't be like IBM, the mainframe must run smoothly, especially when compiling, which is the most important thing. ”

She thought for a moment and said, "Regarding the operating system, maybe we can work on the mainframe as well...... Of course, this is not the main thing, and Seymour Clay may be able to shed some light on this. In this case, I will leave it to you for the time being. ”

Seymour Clay is great, but it's only in the supercomputer area. Catherine originally wanted the other party to become the president of Apple, but she knew that the future trend was personal computers, and vector computers were also a dead end in the end.

In particular, it is very likely that he will develop a personal system terminal for American GIs in the future.

"Whew~"

Back inside the house, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she picked up a copy of Peter Drucker's "Managing for Results," which was published just last year, and began to flip through it.

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, is known as "the master of masters", "the prophet of capitalism", and a group of outstanding rich people such as Bill Gates are deeply influenced by him.

At this time, Peter Drucker was an advisor to General Electric, but a few years later, he would be teaching at Claremont University.

Catherine wondered if she could ask him over for a few lessons to her subordinates, or hire them as consultants at a high salary.

At present, the ARK Group as a whole is expanding rapidly, and in terms of management, it is just in need of supplementation. If the other party can really make up for the deficiencies in the management of ARK?

It's just a pity that the other party is obsessed with education. It would be great if he could poach the other party to be the president.

Catherine thought for a moment, then opened her notebook and wrote the name "Peter Drucker" under the Phoenix operating system.

"That's it."

In the next few days, Catherine personally got on the horse and squatted at Apple's headquarters all day and all night to start the development of this Phoenix operating system similar to DOS.

And while Catherine was immersed in writing the operating system, at the headquarters of IBM, Thomas John Watson Jr., was looking at the report about Intel in his hand at the moment, and then frowned, he seemed to have a headache.

His father was the pioneer of IBM, Thomas Sr.

In 1961, IBM's annual revenues reached $2 billion. The value of the stock has increased fourfold compared to 5 years ago. At that time, there were 6,000 computers in operation in the United States, and IBM accounted for 4,000. People began to refer to IBM as the "Blue Giant". Watson Jr. was promoted to chairman and chairman of the board of directors and began directing the production of the prestigious "IBM 360 system." ”

Watson Jr. spent a full $5 billion to develop the 360 series of mainframe computers with three times the company's annual revenue. Using the latest integrated circuit technology, Watson Jr. is full of confidence and wants to lay the foundation for IBM's dominance in mainframe computers.

However, man is not as good as heaven.

Seymour Clay's vector machine was launched, ahead of the 360, and at a cost of $7 million, it also played with IBM's big stupid elephant.

5 billion vs. 7 million, the huge gap makes little Watson a little out of shape. But he deserved to be the leader of IBM, and soon, he cheered up. ,

At this time, IBM found that Seymour Clay was at odds with the company, and although a new generation of machines was being developed, the pressure on IBM was much reduced.

At this time, Watson Jr. suddenly found that another company that rose like a comet had become his opponent.

――Intel。

To be precise, it should be the ARK Group, that is, Catherine's Ark Group of Companies, whether it is Intel or Apple, which is its subsidiary.

At a time of rapid expansion, ARK is full of vitality and a variety of products are emerging one after another, which is really impressive.

The most important thing is that Watson Jr. got the news that the other party already has plans to enter the mainframe.

It's hard to imagine what their entry will bring to the mainframe market as a whole.

And more importantly, according to the information he got, the concept of the other party's mainframe has obviously avoided many of the current shortcomings, which IBM has not even considered before!

But as soon as Catherine said these questions, little Watson realized that the problem was strict, and that it was serious.

Even, many of IBM's future plans may need to be cancelled!

For example, IBM's latest concept machine is currently available.

This kind of host, all programs also run on the host, and the terminal only has a monitor and keyboard.

Such a machine does not limit the number of users, and can dynamically allocate time according to the number of users, but the "time slice" allocated by each user is relatively large. If it's only one person using it, it doesn't feel like anything.

When there are many people, you can feel a noticeable pause every once in a while, such as when compiling a program. The old Pascal compiler, with each line scanned, a dot was printed on the screen as feedback. If there are more people, you will find that every dozen lines of dots are played, they will stop moving, and then it will be the turn of the other users to execute. After a while, all the other users took turns to do it, continued to dot, typed a dozen more rows, and stopped moving...... And so on until the compilation is complete.

Catherine, however, restricts the users on the one hand, and prepares to adopt a separate operating system in order to keep the system running smoothly.

IBM also has a DOS (not DOS) operating system, but it is too far from the concept of the "Phoenix" operating system!

As a result, IBM was completely left behind by the other party!

Watson Jr. fell into deep concern......

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