"What conditions? You said. James quickly entered the business negotiation mode, as long as Zhou Shuo said the conditions, it means that the business is sincere.

Zhou Shuo said solemnly: "Microsoft cannot change the authorship of the developer of this system, Microsoft can be the publisher, but we must state that the producer is us." ”

"That's all you need?" James blinked and hesitated.

"Of course, that's what I'm asking for." Zhou Shuo nodded.

James said worriedly: "If you specifically state that the software developer is from China, it will affect the software sales!" I'm afraid American companies won't be as open-minded as I am, and they all think that China can only produce socks, shirts and toys! ”

"Maybe." Zhou Shuo spread his hands and said, "But there must be a first time, and I think they will get used to it eventually." ”

If we succumb to the difficulty of opening up the market, then Chinese software will never be able to break out of the world.

"Okay, I'll put this requirement into the contract and ask the company to consider it carefully." James shook his head and said, "I'll come back when your software is done in October." But before that, I'd like you to give me a copy of the trial version. ”

Zhou Shuo made an OK gesture and said, "No problem, but you have to sign a confidentiality agreement and statement." It's formalities, protecting both of us, after all, business is business. ”

Hehe, he sneered in his heart, he just can't trust you Microsoft, Bill Gates has done too much soap picking.

James nodded innocently and agreed.

As soon as he got a copy of the trial software, James went back to Beijing non-stop. What he didn't know was that as soon as he left, Zhou Shuo couldn't wait to board the train to Beijing.

"Hey, you, yes, that's you. What are you doing, do you know where you are, running around? ”

Standing in front of the gate of the 173rd Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Zhou Shuo smiled and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to the uncle who guarded the door, and said, "You smoke, I'll find someone." Shao Shiming, do you know the way? ”

The uncle took the cigarette, pinned it to his ear, and nodded, "Oh, Zhilu Dao." Last year's intern, working in the software room. ”

Zhou Shuo nodded hurriedly and said, "That's right, I'm his classmate, and we were both students of Beijing Post when we were studying." ”

The uncle looked at Zhou Shuo in the window, probably seeing that he didn't look like a lie, nodded and asked, "Is there a letter of introduction?" ”

"A letter of introduction?" Zhou Shuo was stunned, who still needs a letter of introduction these days, and said hurriedly: "Uncle, I just want to catch up with old classmates, you can help more!" ”

Saying that, Zhou Shuo put a box of cigarettes in his pocket into his hand, he didn't smoke anyway, and he carried it with him for convenience. The uncle looked down and looked, yo, it was still a box of peonies, and he was a little happy in his heart. Only then did he show a smile and said, "Dengji, wait here, I'll find someone for you!" ”

After finishing the login, the uncle walked towards the courtyard step by step. After most of the day, I saw a tall figure running out of the research institute.

"Zhou'er!"

"Sea monster!"

Shao Shiming and Zhou Shuo hugged tightly, his height was more than 1.9 meters, standing together half a head taller than Zhou Shuo. When I played basketball in school, my favorite thing was to rampage with the ball, which gave me the nickname "Sea Monster".

Shao Shiming asked in surprise: "We haven't met since we graduated, but I miss death!" Why are you here today? ”

"Looking for your help, find a place to sit?"

"Come with me!"

Shao Shiming picked up Zhou Shuo and ran into the research institute, and walked to a red brick building covered with ivy, entered the building and walked a long corridor, and then entered an office.

There are four desks in the office, and a bookshelf against the wall, but otherwise it is quiet. A middle-aged man is sitting at a desk near a bookshelf drinking tea, holding a foreign-language journal in his hand, taking a sip of tea and reading a page of a book.

"Director, this is my classmate, from Xiucheng, hehe, ask me to do something."

Shao Shiming diligently refilled the director's teacup, the director seemed to be easy to speak, smiled at Zhou Shuo, nodded gently, and said, "You talk, don't worry about me." ”

"Zhou'er, come and sit. What do you need me to help you do? Shao Shiming brought a chair to Zhou Shuo, and the two sat down across the desk.

Zhou Shuo explained: "I wrote a set of software, which needs to be tested in the Internet environment. I heard you say that you entered the 173rd Institute, so I found it. ”

Shao Shiming was surprised: "Our country was only connected to the Internet in April this year, and now there are some users in major research institutes and schools, what do you do with this software, I'm afraid no one will use it when you write it!" ”

Zhou Shuo shook his head with a smile and said: "My software is not used in China, but management software for foreign companies." It can form a distributed office system in the form of a server/browser. ”

Shao Shiming looked at Zhou Shuo in surprise and said in disbelief: "Foreign countries are so advanced, can they still use us to write software?" ”

Zhou Shuo touched his head and said modestly: "The Internet is a new thing, in fact, the United States has not been around for a long time, and everyone is at the starting line." ”

"Well said the lad!" I don't know when Shao Shiming's director also came over, gave a thumbs up and said: "It's a bit of our ambition to catch up with the Premier League and the United States, and fight the heavens and the earth!" ”

Zhou Shuo just laughed and didn't speak.

Shao Shiming happened to borrow the light and said: "Director, do you see if you want to talk to the director, haven't we installed the Internet!" ”

Zhou Shuo hurriedly said: "It's not in vain, I can pay for it!" ”

The director smiled, sat back in a daze, and said, "I'll see okay, Xiao Shao will take your classmates there, and my old bones won't run around." ”

After speaking, he picked up his journal again, took a sip of tea and read the page.

Zhou Shuo shook his head when he saw it, the research institute in the early nineties was really similar to a pension institution. Even if there is an occasional burst of passion, it will fall silent in an instant.

However, it seems that Shao Shiming's blood is not cold, he patted Zhou Shuo with his big hand, and said excitedly: "Let's go, I'll take you to our director." ”

Shao Shiming took Zhou Shuo upstairs, inquired all the way, and arrived at a computer room. In a row of 386 old machines in the computer room, several researchers gathered in front of a monitor, and were busy operating under the command of a thin old man.

"Oops, it's still wrong, it's too hard to get it."

"Shouldn't I have just entered a parameter?"

"What about you as a DOS, with command arguments?"

"Okay, okay, stop arguing. Let's do it again and try to understand the meaning of each step. ”

Seeing the chaos in front of him, Shao Shiming spread his hands helplessly and gave Zhou Shuo a waiting look.

Zhou Shuo stood next to Shao Shiming, watched them operate in front of the computer for a while, and finally figured out what this group of people were doing.

1994 was not only the first year of China's Internet history, but also a year of great development for Cisco, a network equipment manufacturer. This year, Cisco introduced the Catalyst 1200, the first Catalyst series switch for client/server workgroups.

This milestone product opened up an entire family of Cisco switches, and it can even be said that it established the supremacy of Cisco Internet switch equipment in one fell swoop.

However, since it is a first-generation product, of course, there will be many flaws. These people were clearly setting up the Catalyst 1200 and had a very famous design flaw with the Catalyst 1200.

Seeing that they were going to do it again, Zhou Shuo hurriedly coughed lightly and said, "You can't do this, Cisco's switch has a time limit of 30 seconds when setting the password." ”

"Time limit?" The thin old man asked suspiciously.

Zhou Shuo nodded and said, "That's right, and when setting the password, the prompt message returned by the switch is wrong." The first time you are prompted to enter your password, you need to press enter directly, and the second time you repeat the confirmation, it will still be an empty enter. In these two steps, the message will tell you 'sorrypasswordincorrect', which means sorry that the password is incorrect. But don't worry, you can change your password by using the setenablepass command. And this operation process can't take more than 30 seconds, and it's completely a sore design. ”

The thin old man patted the researcher sitting in front of the computer and said curiously, "Try it and see if that's the case." ”

When the researcher operating the computer heard this, he quickly typed on the keyboard. After a while, he cheered and excitedly exclaimed, "Oh, it worked, it's true!" ”

The thin old man turned his head and looked at Zhou Shuo curiously, and asked, "Who are you?" How come I haven't seen you. ”

Shao Shiming hurriedly said: "Director, this is my classmate Zhou Shuo of Beijing University of Posts, he came to test a set of Internet software under our conditions." After he finished speaking, he introduced Zhou Shuo again: "This is the director of our 173 Institute, Professor Zhao Xia'an. ”

"Hello Professor Zhao!" Zhou Shuo hurriedly reached out and shook his hand.

Professor Zhao said with a smile: "The young man's skills are good, have you ever been in contact with Cisco's switches before?" ”

No wonder Professor Zhao is curious, the 173 Institute is a network communication research institute, which can be said to be almost the first echelon of China's network equipment trial. The equipment they were still tinkering with was actually broken by a young man, which was also too shocking.

Zhou Shuo touched his head and smiled: "My software is designed for Microsoft, and I have been in contact with some from them. ”

Professor Zhao nodded slightly, it is not impossible to explain like this. Even in previous years, their research was similar. I don't even have the actual equipment, I just have a manual, and I take the manual to simulate the operation process of air-to-air, and I am not familiar with a lot of foreign equipment?

"If you want to test the software, let Xiao Shao help you......" Speaking of this, Professor Zhao suddenly came to his senses, his eyes widened and said, "Who do you say you designed the software for?" Is that the Microsoft company that wrote DOS? ”