Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 89 Great Artists Steal Inspiration
Christina asked seriously while choosing the jewelry to wear, "Don't you like the gift I chose for him?"

"Of course it's impossible. That's a private jet worth tens of millions of dollars. No one in the world can refuse such sincerity."

Fan Ning, who was standing by, replied affirmatively, "But Easterners always like to keep a low profile. They call this practice of making a fortune in silence. As time goes by, Tang will get used to your style of doing things, Miss."

"Don will not covet anything from me. Even if it is necessary, he will exchange it at an equal value, such as the loan." Christina shook her head, "But this time I will be patient. By the way, the opposition in the family Why did the voice suddenly decrease so much?"

"They learned about Tang's situation, and found that Zheru Company's sales exceeded 9000 million U.S. dollars within one year of its establishment, becoming the number one in its field. They felt that Tang was really a genius with a bright future. Marriage can find a new industry direction and avoid the risk of a declining shipping business." Fan Ning hesitated, but still chose to tell the truth.

Christina snorted dissatisfiedly, "Do they think I made the right choice this time, but unfortunately, their starting point is profit."

"Miss, just be satisfied with yourself, don't pay attention to them." Seeing that his master was a little unhappy, Fan Ning quickly comforted her.

"I can't explain to you the magic of Tang, and those guys who only care about money won't understand."

Christina sighed uninterestedly.

"No matter what, I will only follow Miss's lead." The housekeeper confessed her loyalty.

The master and servant were talking about Tang Huan when the servant came to report that the guest had arrived.

Christina was overjoyed and quickly stood up to greet her.

Now that Miss Fu had taken a fancy to Tang Huan, he couldn't help but deliberately dress up before coming. To put it bluntly, he couldn't avoid it either, and he was very proud of the charm of his man.

However, while Tang Huan was complacent, he did not forget his own principles, brother would not be inferior to others.

After sitting down, Christina took out a stack of photos like a treasure, "This is what that plane looks like. I have asked professionals to modify it. Do you have any suggestions?"

Tang Huan was not hypocritical. He looked at it carefully and nodded, "I have to say, I like your gift very much. But if I accept it, I will find a way to return the fee to you. I didn't use women's money. Habit."

Christina didn't answer the question, and sent out the invitation with a smile, "In January next year, my fleet will be docked in Florida for a period of time, why don't we go visit it, the scene is very spectacular, and men should like that majestic atmosphere."

"Florida?" Tang Huan asked back in surprise, "This is too coincidental, I just came up with the idea of ​​going to this place not long ago."

"I actually thought of it, that would be even better." Christina said happily.

Infected by this atmosphere, Tang Huan smiled slightly: "Since this is the case, then I will ask you to help me directly, and prepare some sets of the most advanced diving equipment for me. If I can find some people who are proficient in diving or have rich experience in salvage, then Better."

Christina blinked and asked curiously, "You're not going to go treasure hunting, are you?"

"Isn't this game fun?" Tang Huan smiled. That's really what he planned. Who made the treasure hunter in his previous life describe the whole experience so clearly in the media after he succeeded? Now that he remembered it, No reason to miss it isn't.

"You're always so creative. It's a great idea, and I'm all for it." Christina's eyes sparkled with excitement.

"When the time comes, there may be surprises." Tang Huan finished speaking meaningfully, got up and walked to the restaurant.The dinner carefully prepared by Christina was already set, and he would naturally not miss the king's enjoyment.

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The Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, is an important research institution established by Xerox in 1970. It is located in Palo Alto in the Silicon Valley area, so the convoy of Tang Huan and Jobs drove very leisurely.

Sitting in the car, Tang Huan secretly thought about what key points should be paid attention to during the visit.

Many modern computer technologies were born at PARC, and its creative research and development results include: personal computer XeroxAlto, laser printer, mouse, Ethernet, graphical user interface, Smalltalk, page description language Interpress (PostScript's forerunner), icons, drop-down menus, all See-is-what-you-get text editors, voice compression technology...the list goes on and on.

These research and development achievements did not bring too dazzling benefits to Xerox, but instead became evidence that people would regret or ridicule in the future.

However, in Tang Huan's view, Xerox, who makes wedding dresses for others, may not really be that stupid. He can only blame the geniuses in the laboratory for the technologies and products that are too advanced, too far ahead of the times, and will take a long time to digest. complete.

Coupled with the fact that these scientists with full of personality lack executive power and cannot turn amazing and brilliant ideas into low-priced and practical products well, it is strange that they are not picked by others.

Undoubtedly, the staff of PARC did not welcome the mighty uninvited guests like Tang Huan and Jobs, otherwise they would not have delayed their visit until now.

Entering a conference room, Tang Huan saw two persons in charge, Larry Tesler and Adele Goldberg, a man and a woman who were ordered to conduct the exhibition.The former had a proud and excited smile on his face, while the latter, on the contrary, had a sullen face and dissatisfied eyes.

Tang Huan took a look at Tesler. This person is an expert in graphical user interface, and he will switch to Apple next year. He should not set up obstacles for the display, which is hard to say for Goldberg.

There are several computers on the display stand, which are the personal computer Xerox successfully developed by PARC in 1973.
Alto stands for "Otto", they belong to the personal computer in the true sense, have a monitor and keyboard, and even equipped with a three-button mouse.

Tang Huan soon discovered that these people had indeed tampered with the demonstration session, and only showed them a very limited number of applications, the most important of which was a word processing program.

Under the DOS environment, it does not mean that there is no ability to make a program with a graphical interface. The development environment of the famous TurboC2.0 in the previous life is a good example.

Zheru's CGrid and WordEasy have achieved such an effect now. If they support the mouse, they are much better than the word processing program of PARC.

However, Tang Huan still watched patiently, carefully finding out what is worth learning from, and whispered a few words with Simeone who had worked here from time to time.

Jobs finally got impatient, and he yelled bluntly, "Don't talk about this shit! You guys are too introverted to know that our spreadsheet and word processing programs are better than yours?"

The sudden outburst of Jobs startled several people in PARC. They gathered together to discuss in a low voice, so Tesler showed the programming language Smalltalk.

Not to mention, it does involve some important dry goods, such as how object-oriented programming works and how computers are connected to each other.

Tang Huan couldn't help but admire in his heart. No wonder Smalltalk is recognized as the second object-oriented programming language in history and the first true integrated development environment IDE.

In the previous life, programming languages ​​such as C++, C#, Objective-C, Actor, Java, and Ruby all benefited from Smalltalk, and even software development ideas such as design patterns, agile programming, and code refactoring in the 1990s also benefited from it. Borrowed quite a bit from Smalltalk.

Previously, Tang Huan had sorted out PARC's technical articles and sent them to Zheru and Apple's engineers, so many people realized the extraordinary features of Smalltalk and asked questions one after another, making the scene very lively.

Jobs naturally didn't understand these technical issues. He only knew that after tossing for a long time, he still didn't see what he wanted.

"Does PARC have that so-called graphical user interface?" Jobs walked over and asked in a low voice, puzzled.

"There must be." Tang Huan nodded firmly, "However, these people are deliberately hiding it and are unwilling to show it."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan sighed unwillingly, "It seems that this trip will be wasted, and I don't know if there is a chance for a second visit."

Tang Huan's aggressive method in disguise really aroused the little flame of Jobs.

Jobs was angry, and he issued an ultimatum angrily, "Since you have always dealt with us, then I can only go to the Xerox headquarters in Connecticut."

After saying that, Jobs picked up the phone and dialed, causing a lot of commotion.

Tang Huan applauded secretly, at the critical moment, Jobs was the best.

In fact, the collection of hundreds of elite memories in Tang Huan's mind is far richer than the PARC technology in front of him, but Tang Huan is still very keen to visit, firstly to satisfy the curiosity, and secondly to further determine the current computer technology by knowing PARC personally. No matter how far the highest level has been reached, it is natural to poach the corner of PARC in the end. The talents here are all treasures.

As for the graphical user interface, Tang Huan thinks it’s better to let Jobs do it in one step. MAC was not introduced to the market until 1984, which shows how difficult it is. With this time, he can do more important things, and there is no need for a graphic. User interface and paranoid.

Jobs finally succeeded, and Xerox headquarters once again issued a notice to show.

Seeing this result, Adele Goldberg, one of the person in charge of the exhibition, left the venue angrily.

Another person in charge, Larry Tesler, was not affected too much, and continued to demonstrate in person, and finally unveiled the veil of the PARC graphical user interface.

Bitmap displays, icons, popup menus, overlapping windows, scroll bars, manipulation with mouse clicks...

Seeing the basic elements of these graphical user interfaces and the results displayed, all the visitors except Tang Huan were stunned.

Atkinson stared at the screen, examining every pixel carefully.

Jobs was waving his arms excitedly, jumping up and down, marveling, asking questions, and even repeating, "You're sitting on a gold mine. I can't believe Xerox isn't taking advantage of this technology."

Hearing Jobs' comments, Tang Huan shook his head secretly. When you spend four years building a MAC computer, you will know how difficult it is to implement a graphical user interface.

Looking at the brilliance in Jobs' eyes, Tang Huan remembered that this guy once quoted Picasso's famous saying "great artists steal inspiration" to characterize this technological plagiarism.

Well, shopping malls are like battlefields, everything is for the final victory, there is no need to worry about whether the means are fair or not.

Dealing with IBM's chess plan is my business, and there is no need to sympathize with the losers here.

(End of this chapter)