Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 17 Gates Allen Comes to Visit and Study

Tang Huan really valued Simeone, a technical expert. He even drove him from his office in Cupertino to Xerox Palo Alto in order to express his thirst for talent. Multiple research centers.

Standing on the side of the road and looking at the PARC office, Tang Huan wondered how Jobs got in touch with Xerox after he listened to his suggestion on the computer GUI, and when he would be able to visit it.

But there was no rush for this matter, Tang Huan shook his head slightly, pressed the thought, and drove to Deng Lijun's residence. He hadn't cooked for a long time, and today he had to prepare dinner himself.

When the meals were almost ready, Deng Lijun came back, followed by a little tail, Celine Dion.

"It smells so good." As soon as Deng Lijun finished praising with a smile, he complained, "It smells so strong of oil fumes." He covered his mouth and quickly entered the bathroom, and then there was a sound of retching.

Seeing this scene, Tang Huan was thoughtful, walked over slowly and asked softly: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's a bit disgusting." Deng Lijun waved her hand, indicating that she was fine.

"Looking at your reaction, don't you have it?" Tang Huan asked with a smile.

Hearing Tang Huan's temptation, Deng Lijun was startled, and muttered angrily, "Is there anything in this world that you don't understand?"

Tang Huan beamed with joy, "So it's true."

"It may have been more than two months, and even my mother didn't dare to tell." Deng Lijun punched Tang Huan angrily.

Grabbing Deng Lijun's little hand, Tang Huan, who was full of joy, said affectionately: "Since we have already achieved crystallization, then we should simply ignore the red tape and pick a good day to register."

While talking, Tang Huan started humming, "Hold me, give me a hug, hold that Li Jun on the sedan chair..."

"I'll think about it for a while." Deng Lijun was teased and smiled, but then the smile faded, she bypassed Tang Huan, walked to the dining table and sat down.

"There's no reason to hesitate." Tang Huan was a little confused, but then he thought about it, marriage proposal is a sacred thing, it is inevitable for the woman to be reserved, and he has not even prepared tokens such as diamond rings.

Sitting down opposite to Deng Lijun, Tang Huan glanced at Celine who was staring at the dishes on the table with a greedy face, Tang Huan said with a smile: "Stop watching, hurry up and taste the chef's craftsmanship."

As he said that, Tang Huan also helped the little girl who couldn't use chopsticks to pick up food, "Where's your brother?"

"He went to the open-air concert tonight." Celine answered vaguely with her mouth full of food.

Tang Huan nodded and turned his attention to Deng Lijun.

Deng Lijun has delicate feelings, and now that she is pregnant, she has to be more attentive and caring.

At this time, my aunt Tang Yun called to remind myself that Zhuang Menghua's flight will arrive in San Francisco the day after tomorrow, so don't forget to pick up the plane when the time comes.

Zhuang Menghua is the granddaughter of Tang Huan's grandfather's friend Zhuang Yinuo. She was originally commissioned to find Tang Huan on the mainland, bring him to Xiangjiang, and finally send him to the United States. The entire process was handled by Mr. Zhuang.

This year, Zhuang Menghua received the admission letter from Harvard University, so she came to the United States in advance to get used to it.

Tang Huan rubbed the center of his brows, feeling a little headache. When he was in Xiangjiang, he didn't deal with Zhuang Menghua, a little pepper, so he might be squeezed out again when he met the day after tomorrow.

Celine, a little lolita, is quite annoying. After the meal, she imitated what she had seen and heard in the past few days, and sang two songs for Tang Huan to give some advice. Although the performance was a little immature, it did show the future superstar talent.

Deng Lijun was a little sleepy and yawned a few times. Seeing this, Tang Huan quickly advised her to go back to the bedroom to rest, while he continued to stay in the living room to give advice to Celine, while doing brainwashing and vaccinations so that the future girl who is 26 years old would be prevented Brokers pick up a ready-made bargain.

Perhaps because of the generous help she received, and the fact that, besides her brother, Tang Huan was the most trustworthy person in San Francisco who could communicate and communicate with her. Celine was very close to Tang Huan and did not have the common rebellious psychology of teenagers. For Tang Huan All opinions are listened to carefully.

Seeing that it was getting late, Tang Huan summed it up, "Your foundation is French songs, accumulate it well, and try to find a suitable manager in Canada next year to help you enter the music scene. Let's go rest now."

Regardless of her young age, Celine is very eager to become famous. After receiving Tang Huan's promise, she jumped up and down excitedly to the guest room.

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The next day, Tang Huan came to the office early to prepare for Gates' visit. This uninvited guest also surprised Tang Huan. He actually brought his entrepreneurial partner Paul Allen.

Don't say anything, first take a group photo and leave an archaeological archive.

Although Gates and Allen were not used to this kind of welcome, they still stood beside Tang Huan very cooperatively, with smiles on their faces, as if they were close friends.

The last time he came with Jobs, Gates only saw a project team, CGrid and supporting printers, and there were not many employees. But just over two months later, the scale of Zerone company has expanded several times, and the project team has also become Four, this made him both envious and jealous.

In order to prevent being stolen, Tang Huan asked the engineers to be careful not to disclose key technical details, but he did not limit the technical exchanges on the surface, because the technical barriers are only temporary and relative. The two in front of him are geniuses in the industry. They realize that the most fundamental solution is how high the technical threshold is. Too obvious cover-ups will appear petty, which is not conducive to the great cause of being friends with local tyrants.

Gates found that the functions of CGrid and WordEasy on the Mac were significantly more powerful than those on the CP/M platform. He was puzzled and raised questions.

Tang Huan smiled slightly, "This is because the expansion card I designed is installed on the Apple computer, so it can support more functions."

Of course, this is also Apple's request and its own interests, but there is no need to say this reason.

When they came to the MA project team area, both Gates and Allen stopped and watched solemnly.

Only then did they realize that if Microsoft wanted to enter the spreadsheet software market for a piece of the pie, it had to be ready for Zerone to strike back.At present, MA is already a mature and stable macro assembly language development tool. If Tang Huan takes a fancy to the BASIC field, wouldn't it be that there will be an extra hungry wolf scrambling for food.

At this time, Tang Huan spoke slowly, "There are still many blank areas in the application of microcomputers, which are enough for Microsoft and Zerone to run freely. But it is precisely because of this that it is destined to attract companies like IBM and Hewlett-Packard." The ferocious crocodile, we will sincerely cooperate and support each other in the future."

Allen, who was silent, didn't bother to pay attention to Tang Huan's superficial articles. He was evaluating the threat of MA to the BASIC he created. Better execution efficiency, after all, this issue has always been a shortcoming of BASIC.

Gates responded with a smile, with a look of deep approval, but his heart was bleeding secretly. Zerone's products are already very good and mature, which can raise the entry threshold for latecomers like himself. Even if the software is developed, it will not achieve the same function. It seems that Jobs will find an excuse to delay it.

But when he came to the fourth development project area, Gates suddenly felt moved.The tone of the engineers here is obviously much stricter than those in the previous office area, and they can't see the appearance of database products at all.This is not surprising, after all, it is still under development, he doesn't care.But Zerone has launched so many projects at once, and must have invested huge resources, and the company's management will become correspondingly complicated. Maybe Tang Huan will fall into extremely inflated self-confidence like all careerists.

Naturally, Tang Huan didn't know what was going on in Gates' mind. He just felt a little emotional when he saw Alan and Gates appearing together.

Microsoft, Apple, and the upcoming rival Oracle in the database market, these last IT giants in previous lives, have so many similarities in their early stages of entrepreneurship. They are all an elite genius paired with a technical genius. Gates There is Allen, Jobs has Woz, Larry Ellison has Bob Miner, and Allen and Woz are amazingly sympathetic to each other. When the company started to take off, one suffered from Hodge. King's disease, a man who encountered a malfunction while driving a private jet and survived the catastrophe left the startup company and lived the rest of his life as a billionaire relying on the shadow of the stock market.

After Gates made a preliminary mental assessment of the resources required for database product development, he seemed to be concerned and asked: "Don, what type of database is this?"

"A relational database developed according to the relational model proposed by IBM, this technology is definitely the future direction of industry development." Tang Huan did not hide anything and answered truthfully.

Gates praised repeatedly with admiration on his face, and an idea flashed in his mind, the more advanced the better, use up your resources, so that my Microsoft can have hope of catching up.

According to the original arrangement, after the visit, Tang Huan was going to entertain Gates and Allen at a high-end restaurant, but the two brothers insisted on leaving, saying that the return tickets had been booked long ago and the flight time was too tight.

Seeing the enthusiastic Tang Huan full of regret, Gates, who regarded Tang Huan as his opponent, couldn't stop his black belly. "Forget it this time. When you come to Seattle, we will have dinner together again."

"Then it's settled. I'll visit your place then." Tang Huan readily agreed.

Gates rolled his eyes in his heart, this guy really can climb up the ladder, and he found an excuse for a return visit so easily.

"I am very yearning for personal computer pioneers like Microsoft. I have long wanted to have a look at them. I also believe that Microsoft will definitely develop into a company that people look up to like Boeing." Tang Huan continued to chatter on. .

Smiling and waving goodbye, Gates got into the car and snorted in his heart. He is so arrogant and confident. It is very rare to have a Boeing company in Seattle. I dare not expect Microsoft to develop to that level.

Gates put his face up again and started the car, but he was thinking unconsciously in his heart, but why did Tang Huan's words make him yearn so much after savoring them carefully.

(End of this chapter)