Chapter 69: Comprehensive Upgrade Plan
"Brenda, notify the software department, system department and hardware manufacturing department to come here for a meeting within half an hour, please be sure to be there!"
With Yao Fei's guiding light, and such a serious market competition problem, it can only be said that the research focus of these people is a bit biased, just like letting experts in agricultural production study the manufacture of agricultural equipment, although they are all in one field, but it is obvious that this requires a long-term accumulation process.
If we do not solve the problem of demand for market products, the company has no profits, where will the money come from for these people to continue to engage in research, and in the long run, a vicious circle will be formed under the idea of lofty ideals and disregard for reality.
Therefore, Yao Fei felt that it was very necessary for him to teach these people how to make their research plans more suitable for the development needs of the company, and with the help of Moore's information, he also planned to launch the second generation of SPC computers at the same time.
The second generation of personal computer products not only shows that they have a stronger heart, but also needs to be replaced with floppy disk drives, hard disk capacity and computer systems.
Today's Feiyue Technology has grown into a well-known technology company, and with the company's increasing reputation, it is much easier to recruit talents than at the beginning, not only for the very competitive salary level of Feiyue Technology, but also for the company's prospects with great development potential.
Looking at the more than 40 people sitting in front of him, Yao Fei's heart was full of emotion, you don't see how difficult it was to find a high-level professional talent when the company was first established, but now there are so many high-tech talents working under him.
"Cheng Gong, let's talk about the work of your department first......"
The reason why Cheng Gong was not sent to Hong Kong was that Yao Fei was trying to see how this guy would behave when the two big bulls Bentley and Hillis were away, and on the other hand, there really needed to be someone at home who could sit still.
"Okay, boss, according to the boss you sent back from Intel at that time, our three departments immediately held a meeting to analyze all aspects of their next-generation 80286 chips, and then enhance the system functions according to the analyzed data, among which our system department is mainly responsible for the development of multi-task operating systems.
I have to say that this is a huge challenge for our system R&D department, because we have never tried to parallelize programs, and because two or more parallel programs need to call computer resources at the same time when running, if we do not set up a processing mechanism, the operation of multiple programs will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Although this technique is relatively easy to implement and can achieve the effect we envisioned, it does not meet the boss's requirements for a multitasking operating system without pause, so this mechanism of allocating resources and letting go will be the focus of our next work! ”
The work idea of the system department controlled by Cheng Gong is very clear, that is, to work around the computer operating system, combine the performance of the CPU, the performance of the storage system, and the performance of the input/output system, and reasonably design the interrupt mechanism and system call mechanism of the computer.
"Your idea is correct, but you can expand on this idea, establish more such processing mechanisms and privilege mechanisms, and establish a set of corresponding operation processing mechanisms for the operation of the system itself, software operation, critical, important, high priority and low priority, etc.!
This can not only allocate limited computer resources more reasonably, but also increase the fault tolerance rate of the system when it is running, and improve its work efficiency!
In this way, although the workload will increase exponentially, I think we still have enough time to prepare for the next generation of products! ”
The exception handling mechanism is equivalent to the roadside road sign along the way for the first time to run a long distance alone, so that when he finds that he is taking the wrong road direction, he can find his mistake in a very short time, and then return to the place of the road sign in the right direction, and then continue on the road, which is very important.
"Zhilu said boss, we will do our job well!"
With Yao Fei's guidance, most of the rest is some quantitative work, although it still needs to be thought about from time to time, but the difficulty is much smaller.
"Mr. Gavin, Mr. Bentley is currently directing the work in the Hong Kong branch, please report on the progress of your software department!"
Although the company has a lot of personnel now, and Yao Fei is often in other places, he can still recognize the core executives of the company.
"Okay, sir, our software department is currently working on the development and improvement of a total of 31 programs, mainly to improve the office three-piece set of functions, and strengthen the relationship between them data communication, but also designed some new software ...... such as charts, business cards, calendars, notepads, clocks, reversi, etc."
Computer software, for which it is certainly essential for a computer system, the latter being the platform and the former being the performer.
"You're going in the right direction, and what we need right now is these more commonly used features that can make our computer systems more attractive.
But I also give you some advice, first of all, strengthen the security of the computer, when our customers leave the computer, they definitely don't want others to be able to use their computer at will, if there are some more important but need to keep the software on the computer, then they definitely want us to help them give the computer a security lock, so that they can leave the computer with peace of mind to do what they want to do.
Secondly, to enhance the icon design of the software on the computer desktop, the desktop is the first window for us to show our customers the product, I hope they can make our customers look pleasing to the eye, feel like they are looking at beautiful works of art......"
To some extent, the responsibility of the software development department is greater than that of the system design department, because the quality of their work directly affects the user's perception of the computer system and the company, so Yao Fei felt that it was necessary to make more stringent requirements for their work.
"Mr. Clark, it's your turn to ...... Computer Hardware Manufacturing Department."