Blooming America

"Then about our mainframe plan, when will it be implemented?" Sanders asked again suddenly.

　　 Catherine was taken aback.

　　 "Mainframe? Supercomputer?"

　　 Sanders nodded.

　　 "Without supercomputers, we would never be able to enter the mainstream... The configuration of personal computers is really too weak."

　　 Catherine nodded, indeed.

　　 "Look, what if we want to dig Seymour Clay over?"

　　 Sanders was taken aback for a moment, this matter seemed a bit inappropriate to himself. Seymour Clay was better than Sanders in terms of prestige and social reputation. He really didn't know how to answer.

But after thinking about it, he said: "No problem, but now is not the best time. I can see that Seymour Clay has a fanatical sentiment for supercomputers, as long as he can give him sufficient permissions. , I believe there is no problem. It’s just that if you want to dig him, it will probably be better to wait until the end of the year or next year. The conflict between him and his company is getting worse and worse. We just need to wait until the time is right."

　　 Catherine nodded in satisfaction.

"Sanders, let's do it... You still have to introduce a mainframe plan first, uh... Don't IBM kind of, the mainframe must be able to run smoothly, especially when compiling, this is the most important."

She thought for a while, and then said: "Regarding the operating system, maybe we can also work on the mainframe...Of course, this is not the most important thing. Seymour Clay may have some suggestions for this. As for the matter, I will be responsible for you for the time being."

　　 Seymour Cray is very good, but only on the supercomputer. Catherine originally wanted the other party to become the president of Apple, but she knew that the future trend was personal computers, and the vector machine was ultimately a dead end. Although it turned out to be a turnaround in the end, Catherine believed that the personal computer could not be discarded.

　　Especially in the future, it is very likely that I will develop personal system terminals for American soldiers.

　　 "Huh~"

　　 Back in the house, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief.

　　 Then, she picked up a copy of Peter Drucker's "Management for Results" that was just published last year, and began to read it.

　　 Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, is known as "the master of masters", "the prophet of capitalism", Bill Gates and other outstanding wealthy people are deeply influenced by him.

　　 At this time, Peter Drucker is a consultant to General Electric, but in a few years, he will teach at Claremont University.

　　 Catherine wondered if she could invite him over to teach her subordinates a few times, or hire him as a consultant with a high salary.

　　 The current ARK Group is expanding rapidly as a whole. In terms of management, it happens to be in need of supplementation. What if the other party can really make up for ARK's management deficiencies?

　　 It's just a pity that the other party is obsessed with education. It would be great if the other party could be hired as the president.

　　 Catherine thought for a while, then opened her notebook and wrote the name "Peter Drucker" under the Phoenix operating system.

"That's all."

　　 In the next few days, Catherine personally got on the horse, squatting at Apple's headquarters all day and night, and started the development of this DOS-like Phoenix operating system.

　　 While Catherine was immersed in writing operating systems, Thomas John Watson, Jr., at IBM's headquarters, was looking at the Intel report in his hand, and then frowned. He seemed to have a headache.

　　His father is the pioneer of IBM, Thomas Sr.

　　In 1961, IBM's annual revenue reached 2 billion US dollars. The value of the stock has quadrupled from 5 years ago. At that time, there were 6,000 computers in operation in the United States, and IBM accounted for 4,000. People began to call IBM the "big blue". Watson Jr. was promoted to chairman and chairman and began to direct the production of the prestigious "IBM360 system."

　　 Little Watson used the company's huge sum of three times its annual revenue to spend a full 5 billion US dollars to develop the 360 ​​series of large computers. Using the latest integrated circuit technology, Little Watson is full of confidence and wants to establish IBM's position as the hegemony of large computers.

　　 But people are not as good as heaven.

　　 Seymour Clay’s vector machine turned out to be on sale before 360, and the cost of 7 million US dollars also played the big elephant like IBM at its feet.

　 　 5 billion to 7 million, the huge gap made Little Watson a little gaffe. But he deserves to be the leader of IBM, and soon he cheered up.

　　At this time, IBM discovered that Seymour Clay was in conflict with the company. Although a new generation of machines was being developed, the invisible pressure on IBM was much reduced.

　　At this time, Watson suddenly discovered that another company that had risen like a comet had become his opponent.

　　——Intel.

　　 To be precise, it should be the ARK Group, which is Catherine’s Ark Group. Both Intel and Apple are its subsidiaries.

　　 ARK company is in a period of rapid expansion with great vitality, and various products are emerging one after another, which is really amazing.

　　 The most important thing is that Watson Jr. got the news that the other party has plans to enter the mainframe.

　　 It is hard to imagine ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ what their entry will bring to the entire mainframe market.

　　 And more importantly, according to the information he received, the concept of the other party's mainframe has obviously avoided many of the current ills, and IBM has not even considered these before!

　　 But as soon as Catherine talked about these problems, Watson Jr. realized that the problem was serious, and it was serious.

　　 Even, many future plans of IBM may need to be cancelled!

　　, for example, IBM's latest concept machine.

　　 This kind of host, all programs are also running on the host, the terminal only has a display and a keyboard.

　　 Such a machine does not limit the number of users, and can dynamically allocate time according to the number of users, but the "time slice" allocated by each user is relatively large. If only one person uses it, nothing can be felt.

　　 When there are more people, you can feel obvious pauses every once in a while, such as when compiling programs. An old-fashioned compiler is used. Each time a line is scanned, a dot is printed on the screen as feedback. If the number of people increases, you will find that every time you hit more than a dozen lines, you will stop moving. At this time, it is the turn of other users' processes to execute. After a while, all other users went through the round, continued to do the dot, and typed a dozen more lines, and stopped moving... and so on, the loop continues until the compilation is complete.

　　 But Catherine restricts users on the one hand, and on the other hand, in order to maintain the smoothness of the system, she plans to adopt a separate operating system.

　　 IBM also has a DOS (not later DOS) operating system, but the concept of the "Phoenix" operating system is too far apart!

　　 As a result, IBM was completely left behind by the other party!

　　 Watson was deeply concerned...