Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 312

IBM's personal computer standards are so full of holes that the world recognizes that it is not the best, but it has achieved final market success by relying on its monopoly advantage.

Tang Huan hated this deeply, but it was not driven by the noble sentiment of complaining for the interests of consumers and the whole world, but because it affected the layout he conceived.

For example, in Tang Huan’s view, the manufacturing of high-end products such as servers/workstations for enterprise applications should best be similar to the model of the U.S. military industry system—building some parts and components in the civilian field, that is, personal computers from more manufacturers. The industry is supported by cost advantages.

In order to achieve this goal, the PC standard must have a complete and professional system from the very beginning. It cannot be like the IBM-PC standard, which waits until a problem is discovered and then applies a patch to deal with it, passively being whipped by market demand, Take a step forward.

The Intel 8086 branch of the second-generation Fangyuan computer is similar to IBM-PC. It works in real mode, and the memory access range is only 1MB. However, no matter whether it is hardware or software, it can smoothly transition to On the MC68000 branch, directly access more than 1MB of memory.

But in the IBM-PC standard, motherboard BIOS and hard disk MBR are two stumbling blocks that cannot be avoided.

Because it has traditional businesses such as mainframes, IBM is naturally worried that personal computers are too powerful and will threaten the profits of its high-end products, so various measures are relatively conservative.

Tang Huan, who also thinks about everything, does not have the burden of high-end products. He is not afraid of wearing shoes with bare feet. This is the field he needs to actively break through.

With such a huge difference in interests, Tang Huan naturally wanted to knock the IBM-PC out of the dust, and put the Fangyuan computer designed by himself on the throne of personal computer standards.

But this process was full of power and strategy struggles. In the original time and space, Big Blue had to weigh the profits of high-end products, which led to IBM-PC's decision-making mistakes, and finally made wedding dresses for compatible manufacturers.

Now that Japanese companies are so enthusiastically striving for authorization around the second-generation Fangyuan computer, if the control is not good, it is not impossible to end up in a tragic situation where the son rides on the shoulders of the father.

It is necessary to let go, but also not to break away from one's own control. The subtlety of the scale lies in one's heart. Even the reborn person who has the advantage of information asymmetry has to rely on his own efforts to figure it out carefully.

During the long-distance voyage from Tokyo, Japan to San Francisco, USA, Tang Huan has been thinking about this issue.

……

After the plane landed, Tang Huan got into the car directly and rushed to Baozang Hospital.

"How are the old people from the mainland?" Tang Huan asked worriedly.

"Only some of them have completed the operation, and the effect is good, while others are still preparing." Tang Wenhuan handed over a statistical form, which listed the progress of each person's medical treatment.

In order to avoid trouble, they all used pseudonyms, which made Tang Huan confused.

"Everyone is in a good mood." Tang Wenmao added: "When you are free, you can walk, chat, play chess, etc. There are quite a lot of activities, and even Mr. Hu from Baodao has become one of them. friend."

Tang Huan frowned when he heard that, the two sides really got together, and they didn't know how they got along.

However, Hu Yinmeng's father was basically a civil servant during the period of the Republic of China. Logically speaking, there should not be too many conflicts.

Tang Huan's idea was almost overturned when he walked across a lawn of the hospital.

Father Hu was pointing at the chessboard across the stone table, arguing with the blushing old man opposite him. It seemed that the sequelae of the stroke were not so obvious.

They were really a pair of old children. Tang Huan walked over speechlessly, coughed lightly, and sat down.

Seeing Tang Huan, Father Hu's eyes lit up, and even his voice became clearer, "Don't think I'm afraid because you have a lot of people. The entire site, including this hospital, belongs to my son-in-law."

Tang Huan heard a black line on his forehead, and thought to himself, for a game of chess, why are you so up to date?

Fortunately, the aunt Hu's father found after his divorce rushed over and persuaded him to leave.

……

"Da Tang, old man Hu just said that you are his son-in-law, is that really the case?"

"Well, we are still dating...the relationship is not clear yet..."

"Okay, don't hide it, I understand. Let me tell you, why is this guy so confident, and he has a big backer for his relationship."

"How are you feeling now?"

"Yes, the surgery date has been set."

"That's good. My father-in-law, you just give way. He just had a stroke a few days ago."

"Da Tang, you young people don't understand the living habits of us old men. You have been fighting all your life. When your old father-in-law first came to the hospital, he couldn't speak well, but look at him just now, like he had a stroke. Has anyone ever been?"

"Okay, it's healthier to be arguing, maybe you can make friends without acquaintances."

"You're really right, we have a good relationship now."

……

As soon as Tang Huan got off the plane, he came to the hospital to visit everyone. This gesture of respect for the elderly made these elderly people and their accompanying family members very grateful.

In fact, Tang Huan, apart from attaching great importance to this relationship, also because he will be very busy in the next period of time, he had to come over early to meet up, so as not to be rude and embarrass his little uncle on the mainland.

After greeting each other one by one, Tang Huan was ready to receive his master's degree certificate.

In order to be able to graduate as a graduate student, Tang Huan, who was unable to follow the regular course schedule, made great efforts to make up for it in other ways. The level has been brushed to the fourth level.

IEEE was formed in 1963 by the merger of IRE - Institute of Radio Engineers, founded in 1912, and AIEE - American Institute of Electrical Engineers, founded in 1884. Headquartered in New York, it is one of the largest professional technical organizations in the world. Standards defined in industry have great influence.

Famous chairmen in the history of IEEE include Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone, Frederick Emmonsterman, the father of Silicon Valley, and William Hewlett, the founder of Hewlett-Packard.

Of course, the status of IEEE can only be understood by insiders, and it may not be as famous as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organizer of the Academy Awards.

There are five levels of IEEE membership: Associate Member - Ordinary Member, Student Member - Student Member, Member - Professional Member, Senior Member - Senior Member, Fellow Member - Fellow.

Tang Huan has now reached the level of a senior member by virtue of his achievements in technical papers on floating-point algorithm specifications, local area networks, etc.

In addition, Tang Huan vigorously funded the construction of the university's BBS and filled in every opportunity, making his ID synonymous with technical experts in West Coast university circles.

Tang Huan also collaborated with his teacher Cai Shaotang, and made a lot of achievements in the research of Chuas Circuit-Chua's circuit and Memristor-memristor.

The former is a simple nonlinear electronic circuit design that can exhibit standard chaos-theoretic behavior.

The ease with which this circuit can be made makes it a ubiquitous real-world example of chaotic systems, and the speed and breadth of its spread has even led some to hail it as a "paradigm of chaotic systems."

In the original time and space, Cai's circuit was published by Cai Shaotang when he was a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Japan in 1983. Now it came out ahead of schedule, which brought Cai Shaotang a higher academic reputation.

Compared with the simplicity and practicality of Chua's circuit, complex memristors are currently only suitable for theoretical and laboratory research.

As early as 1971, Cai Shaotang, who had already worked at the University of California, Berkeley, predicted based on the theory of electronics that besides resistors, capacitors, and inductance elements, there was a fourth basic element of the circuit—the memristor.
As a passive electronic component, a memristor is similar to a resistor in that it generates and maintains a safe current flow through a device, but unlike a resistor, a memristor can "remember" when the power is turned off. "Amount of charge previously passed.

Two sets of memristors can perform the same functions as transistors, but in a smaller size, so its significance to the computer industry is self-evident.
In the original time and space, HP developed a new generation of non-volatile memory products, Resistive Random-Access Memory - variable resistance memory or RRAM, which is considered to be a form of memristor.

In other words, memristors are too advanced. Now EEPROM—Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory is in the ascendant, and Flash Memory—the flash memory used in U disks has not yet come out. The next-generation RRAM is naturally a spectacle.

Tang Huan's research on memristors is only for the master's degree course, and the goal has been achieved, so naturally he is unwilling to continue to spend energy on it.

Cai Shaotang didn't ask too much about this. The student he brought, whether it was academic attainments or commercial achievements, left him speechless.

"Teacher, you have been condescending to stay at the University of California, Berkeley. Why don't you go out and share your research results." After getting the master's certificate, Tang Huan ran to Cai Shaotang to encourage him.

"I do have plans to serve as a visiting professor, and Japan is also in contact." Apparently Cai Shaotang has already made plans.

"Teacher, with my student here, you are looking far away." Tang Huan smiled slightly, "I will have a trip to mainland China in the near future, and one of my plans is to cooperate with local universities. There is a thirst for talents there. , if the teacher goes there, he will definitely get more research and development resources."

"Go to China!" Cai Shaotang's eyes lit up, and his heart was already moved.

"Then it's settled, teacher, wait for my reply." Tang Huan struck while the iron was hot, and locked the other party in.

"I see you are in a hurry." Cai Shaotang shook his head with a smile, then changed the subject and asked, "After finishing my master's degree, do you plan to continue your studies and pursue a doctoral degree?"

"I don't want to work so hard anymore. I only got this master's degree at the request of my aunt." Tang Huan expressed his opinion bluntly.

"Many of your subordinates are Ph.D. students from famous universities. If we stop now, will there be no pressure?" Cai Shaotang joked.

"I'm their boss, so I can barely make an exception." Tang Huan laughed loudly, determined not to go to school anymore.

……

After Tang Huan returned to Zheru headquarters in Cupertino, the first subordinate he recruited was Owen Rappaport, a lawyer in charge of copyright.

This loyal dog who was originally an apple in time and space is now also showing great professional ethics in Zheru, and naturally wins the respect of Tang Huan.

"Recently, IBM has been in frequent contact with us for the copyright of Hanka Chinese technology, and the lawsuit initiated by its personal computer department, IBM-PC and the second-generation Fangyuan computer, has stopped." Owen Rabaport introduced the recent situation , while handing the drafted main legal model to Tang Huan.

Thanks to the powerful typesetting function of his own word processing software WordEasy, Tang Huan can easily see the important clauses marked above, but the interlocking legal logic still makes him feel dizzy.

However, this kind of document should have been brainstormed and worked together. Tang Huan couldn't make a decision with one word, and let it go if he couldn't stand it.

"In addition to the Chinese technology copyright of Hanka, there is also the copyright of the second-generation Fangyuan computer. The Japanese company is very interested, but I only plan to release the Intel 8086 branch, but this technology is a whole. How to try to ensure that the copyright of the MC68000 branch is not If someone takes advantage of the loopholes, it is up to you to design the defensive fortress." Tang Huan entrusted Owen Rappaport with a heavy responsibility.

"Boss, don't worry, no one can take advantage of us for nothing." Owen Rappaport's tone can be described as high-spirited.

"You have to attend the recent high-level meetings. You must understand the huge commercial interests involved." Tang Huan stood up and motioned for the other party to go to the meeting with him. This was invisibly elevating Owen Rappaport's status. .

……

With the gradual adjustment of the factory, the cost of IBM-PC has been optimized, and the output has also increased significantly. The memory capacity of its benchmark model has been increased from 16KB, which has no practical application significance, to 32KB, while the price has been slightly lowered.

Simeone unceremoniously sarcastically said: "IBM is not suddenly showing kindness to users, but because one of the so-called troikas on the IBM-PC platform, the spreadsheet VisiCalc, has all functions to be run, 32KB of memory Capacity is a benchmark."

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