Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 598 A New Computer Era Is Coming

"The coexistence of studiOS and FreeDOS provides a very friendly platform transition mechanism. But this also brings up a question, whether studioOS is a real operating system, not an upgraded version of Shell in FreeDOS."

"It needs to be pointed out that although Zheru did not publicize it widely, the FreeDOS in the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers has indeed been upgraded to a 32-bit version. This should be regarded as the most powerful DOS operating system in the industry at present, and it will naturally follow. It brings a lot of new features. However, our focus is on studioOS with a GUI, after all, it is what the average user is most interested in."

"The startup screen of studioOS is a simple animation. On the black screen background, a book composed of green lines is slowly flipping. On the left and right sides are progress bars moving from bottom to top, like candles. The meaning of the fire of civilization is inside."

"It can be seen that Zheru's design team has spent a lot of thought on the details, which has been reflected in many subsequent user experiences."

"Actually, the startup screen of studiOS is not as simple as a good-looking logo. During this process, the kernel of studiOS is checking whether the hardware, including CPU, memory, graphics card, etc., meets the operating standards of the operating system. Once it fails, then It means that this computer cannot provide the basic conditions required for the operation of studioOS."

"When studioOS is successfully launched, the interface presented to us is called WorkSpace, just like a lot of furniture in a room, and there are many things called icons in it for us to operate and interact with."

"The strip at the bottom of the screen, which looks like a dining table, is called the taskbar. studioOS is also a multitasking operating system, and this taskbar is used to help manage multiple tasks during operation."

"The element called 'Start' on the far left of the taskbar is actually a menu we are very familiar with. As the name suggests, users can find all interfaces to control computer resources here. For example, the file explorer - in a graphical way A tool to manage all the files on your computer."

"The start menu is like a large locker, which collects all the interfaces that control computer resources; while the icons on the WorkSpace represent a more concise and convenient operation method, such as double-clicking 'My Computer' icon, it will directly invoke the file explorer."

"Different from the single-button mouse used by Apple's personal computer product MAC, Fangyuan personal computers have always used a two-button mouse, so it has more operation combinations in the studioOS graphical user interface, which is not as simple and clear as the MAC, which is a bit Test the user’s understanding.”

"For example, click the left mouse button to select the target, double-click the left mouse button to run the selected target, click the right mouse button to call the operation menu associated with the target, double-click the right mouse button, haha...it seems to have no effect."

"Zheru combined this set of mouse operation methods, collectively referred to as mouse gestures. It is said that in addition to the system's built-in predefined mouse gestures, users can also define their own customary mouse gestures. In this way, the role of the mouse has obviously stepped forward. A big step is that users may not be able to fully remember these dazzling mouse gestures, and instead lose the original intention of the intuitive and simple operation of the graphical user interface."

"Of course, if users remain patient and explore the mysteries of mouse gestures, they can still find many interesting and practical functions. The editor accidentally discovered such a function, and now I will share it with you."

"There is a document-like icon on WorkSpace, the name is Software License Agreement. Double-click it, and studioOS will automatically call the system's built-in text processing program to open it. The content is a lot of copyright-related statements. Don't worry about it. We press With the left and right mouse buttons, this document will automatically turn pages, isn’t it very convenient?”

"The mouse function we really want to introduce is draganddrop—drag and drop, that is, the mouse drag and drop function. Take the software license agreement as an example, select it, and don't release the left mouse button, to the trash can Drag the icon. We can see that the icon of the software license agreement document moves with the dragging of the mouse, and after reaching the position of the trash can icon, release the left mouse button, drop the icon of the software license agreement document, and then A progress bar animation appears, and the file is thrown into the trash can, that is, deleted. This operation is a process of dragging and dropping the mouse, isn’t it simple, vivid and interesting?”

"However, this deletion is not a real deletion. Just like the trash can in reality has to go through the process of emptying, we can completely delete the files in it by clearing the trash can. Now, studioOS provides us with a food If there is an opportunity to regret medicine, open the trash can, select the deleted software license agreement, and perform a restore operation, and this document will return to WorkSpace.”

"Let's continue the demonstration. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive, open the file explorer, and you can easily find this floppy disk. Drag and drop the software license agreement just restored. This is a file copy process. From then on In the future, when users perform this routine operation, they no longer need to be as troublesome as typing a line of commands in the DOS environment."

"If the file copy takes too long, we can find a card game in the Start menu and play it while we wait."

"Behind this process, it reflects the multitasking feature of studioOS, while Apple's MAC does not provide this function."

"Running multiple tasks at the same time will naturally put a huge pressure on the memory. However, we don't need to worry too much, because another difference between studioOS and MAC is that it is a hard disk-based operating system that can use the hard disk space virtual memory, allowing the four generations of Fangyuan PCs to run programs that exceed the actual memory capacity supported.”

"I have worked non-stop for 36 hours, so naturally I don't just dedicate these things to everyone. It is only meaningful for personal computers to play a real role. To this end, we tested mainstream applications on the market to evaluate four The compatibility of this new platform of Daifangyuan personal computer."

"As a result, we found that the compatibility of the 32-bit FreeDOS with the old version of the application meets expectations, and the performance has indeed improved a lot."

"In other words, even if third-party software developers do not have time to launch new products under the studioOS environment, users can still benefit from the four generations of Fangyuan PCs."

"Actually, as the largest software company in the world, how could Zheru let the newly released graphical user interface operating system studioOS stand alone, and its own office software spreadsheet CGrid, word processing WordEasy, database EBase, slideshow PowerPresenter, etc. And other heavyweight products have launched a new version that supports studioOS, and the performance is quite good.”

"The reason why third-party software developers lag behind is mainly because they still haven't adapted to the new programming framework of studiOS. However, some manufacturers have launched beta versions, such as another excellent word processing software WordPerfect. It is only in the testing process I don’t know if there is something wrong with the floppy disk, but when operating the floppy disk files, a blue screen of death appeared.”

"We have reported this situation to Fangyuan Computer Company and WordPerfect Company, hoping to find the cause of the blue screen of death."

"In addition, this evaluation is mainly from the perspective of users. studioOS also includes new technologies such as OpenType fonts, TCP/IP network, hardware accelerated OpenGL, ObjectLinkingandEmbedding-object linking and embedding, OLE, etc., because it is mainly for professional users. field, so I won’t make too many statements.”

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"Byte" magazine's so-called sleepless 36-hour painstaking work, once launched, it was a great success. It was reprinted several times in the current issue and still in short supply, and the content of the evaluation was quoted by many third-party media. It is infinite scenery.

Seeing this situation, PCMagazine, which was one step behind, couldn't help but feel angry, and simply followed suit and launched a 72-hour condensed effort evaluation report.

Regarding this phenomenon, many media colleagues have exclaimed, is the working environment of magazines in the IT field so difficult?I don't know if everyone is pretending to be confused to have fun.

"PCMagazine" specializes in review reports in the hardware field, so it went through great troubles to obtain a license from Fangyuan Computer Company to open the main box of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype, which makes its review reports out of date. Sexual advantage, but the characteristics are very strong.

四代方圆个人电脑样机的主要硬件配置包括：CPU是25MHz的MC68020，内存容量为1MB，以及40MB的硬盘、2D加速显卡、3.5英吋软盘驱动器、10MB传输速度的以太网卡等等。

"PCMagazine" showed an exclusive unboxing photo in the report, and on this basis, more memory was added, and a more powerful 2D accelerated graphics card was replaced to challenge the performance limit of the four-generation Fangyuan personal computer.

In the end, "PCMagazine" excitedly came to a conclusion that some software that could only run on Fangyuan workstations before may have the opportunity to be represented on four generations of Fangyuan personal computers.

This is good news, after all, it means that the user base of software developers is expected to expand.

In addition, "PCMagazine" connected a variety of expansion cards to the slots of the fourth-generation Fangyuan PC prototype, which finally broke the fourth-generation Fangyuan PC, because many drivers exist. Defects, resulting in frequent blue screens of death.

Fortunately, the reporting style of "PCMagazine" this time is not like the last time when the quality problems of the third-generation Fangyuan personal computer were discovered, "Everyone, come and see, I found a big secret" for fear that the world will not be chaotic, but actively feedback to Fangyuan company , and rationally analyze it in the evaluation report.

At the end of the article, "PCMagazine" made a joke about the brand-new graphical user interface operating system of studiOS, thinking that its name is not only StandardUIOS-a variant of the standard user interface operating system, but also the meaning of StudyOS-including manufacturers, developers, etc. All groups, including merchants and users, need a learning process.

Although the report of "PCMagazine" lagged behind, it also achieved gratifying sales performance with more exclusive results.

All in all, the participating media have made a lot of money from the theme of the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers, and then created the momentum of "a new computer era is coming".

However, the experience of four generations of Fangyuan personal computers being damaged by the evaluation media also gave people with ulterior motives the opportunity to catch irony, so that the term "blue screen of death" became popular.

No matter how noisy and noisy the various voices are, the competitors of Fangyuan PC have felt the pressure created by "the new computer era is coming".

IBM is in a bit of an embarrassing situation because it has stockpiled a considerable amount of Intel 80286 before, and although the second suppliers often lag behind Intel in R&D progress by more than a year, once they launch compatible products, they will surpass these Intel's original suppliers in terms of performance. The CPU produced by the factory makes the boosted IBM-PC compatible machine faster than the genuine IBM-PC machine.

As for the new personal computer platform PS/2 that IBM is developing, because it has a 32-bit mainframe that has to be maintained, it can only continue to revolve around the 80286-bit platform represented by a large backlog of Intel16. In front of Dai Fangyuan's personal computer, he could hardly lift his head.

But IBM has to bear it. It needs to re-design the personal computer architecture to control the chaotic IBM-PC standard camp again.

As for Apple's MAC, it can only be said that there is no way to mention it. The high-level executives are busy fighting among themselves.

After Jobs tried to launch a coup but was informed and failed, John Sculley got the support of the board of directors and began to reorganize the company, putting his former good friends in the positions of chairman and global technical architect. On the company structure diagram, there are no line segments representing power to connect them.

The founder of Apple has actually been out, and even completely reduced to a marginal role in the IT tide led by Tang Huan.

(End of this chapter)