Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Boy, you are not my opponent. Apple Computer is outdated. Although Don Estridge is not as cool as Jobs, he is more concise in momentum, and he can also choke people to death with a single sentence.

We'll see. Jobs, who was rare, didn't talk to each other, and turned to leave.

Perhaps, in Jobs's mind, a device with a quasi-32-bit microprocessor will come out next year as planned. By then, with the graphical user interface, it can crush all opponents, so there is no need to waste saliva here.

In other words, my aloofness and arrogance cannot be understood by you idiots.

Don't know that he was strongly despised by Jobs and thought that he had run out of his opponent? Don Estridge laughed and looked at Tang Huan, How about my ibm-?

Jobs is right. It's quite satisfactory. There's nothing special about it. Tang Huan smiled slightly. You are standing on the shoulders of companies like Apple, Tangdy, and Commodore, and you are just a late strike.

Why didn't you stand on the shoulders of Fangyuan Computer? Don't you think you are the most special one? Don Estridge asked with a little satisfaction.

Because my Fangyuan computer came out late, you have no time to copy it. Looking at Don Estridge's darkened face, Tang Huan laughed happily.

I have to say that Jobs' arrogance is on the surface, while you are hidden in the bones, but it is even more annoying. Don Estridge snorted.

At present, it seems that the cheap personal computer you claimed. The lowest price should hover between 1,500 and 2,000 US dollars. And it is still the kind of model that is only equipped with b memory, but it can be made below 1,500 US dollars. Tang Huanhui eyes Ruju calculated the cost and hit the other party further, Don't you know, b memory is really rubbish for current commercial software.

Facing Don Estridge's annoyed eyes, Tang Huan continued to say leisurely: When you develop the memory board and insert it into the expansion slot, the cost will naturally increase accordingly. Dude, your cheap computer It’s a gimmick, it’s a deceit.”

Don, you must have never seen IBM's powerful manufacturing capabilities. In two months, when the market is full of IBM-figures, you will not be so confident. Don Estridge said coldly With a sneer, It seems that you are still with the guests, so I won't send you off soon.

Okay, I'll wait and see. By the way, I will hold the annual development author conference. Welcome to come. Tang Huan smiled lightly, and Shi Shiran left.

After leaving the ibm booth.

Tang Huan's face slowly turned cold.

He knows that now there is a cruel reality that cannot be ignored. IBM, which has been working in the industry for decades, is jealous and disgusted by its peers for its rights and wealth, but customers admire and like its quality and strength. In the concept of ordinary people , ibm and computer are almost equivalent.

Therefore, as soon as the ibm computer comes out, there will be a large number of responders, which is the strong appeal of the brand.

The personal computer department led by Don Estridge is not bound by IBM's existing operating rules at all, that is to say, he can put down his figure and do various things.

The West Coast Computer Festival has always been a paradise for amateur personal computer enthusiasts, but IBM, which advertises as a professional and high-end company, appears here with dignity, which is the best proof.

When he returned to Prince Sabah, Tang Huan found that the other party had bought an Osborne generation machine with great interest and used it as a toy.

Don, why don't you develop this kind of computer that can be moved around at will? Prince Sabah asked in confusion, In my impression, any dynamics and business opportunities in this market will not slip away before your eyes.

This kind of portability is very limited. It's more like a concept product. Let others test the water first. When I have accumulated technical reserves in place, I can launch products that are more convenient to move at any time. Tang Huan explained patiently.

Prince Sabah is also busy with affairs. After watching the excitement of the West Coast Computer Festival, he left for New York on the east coast of the United States, leaving behind a fund account with a negotiated amount and a hot potato that can be dealt with casually—— MGM.

Tang Huan pulled Gates aside who was talking to Adam Osborn, Since ibm-has been released, let me have the prototype that ibm gave to Microsoft.

You don't need to be so anxious. Make an order from ibm, and they will ship it soon. Perhaps, ibm- has already been put on the shelves in the mall. Gates wanted to be sloppy.

Don't worry about other things. Tang Huan was a little impatient, Don't worry, I'm not interested in ibm-'s operating system, I just do software transplantation earlier.

Okay, I'll give you one. Gates couldn't bear the pressure, so he could only agree, but he said unwillingly: IBM-is the biggest competitor of the second-generation Fangyuan computer, why do you provide software support for it? Woolen cloth?

There are many tricks here, but I can't tell you, lest I be stolen so quickly, Tang Huan slapped me, but didn't explain the reason directly.

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Zheru's annual developer conference was held at the San Francisco Municipal Auditorium at the San Francisco station of Deng Lijun's second round of North American tour last year. It lasted for two days, and the number of participants reached thousands.

Tang Huan was naturally the protagonist, and he started the keynote speech, but it was not he who appeared first, but 13-year-old Celine Dion, who sang a French song a cappella.

Little Lolita released her first album this year. This song is the main song in the album and has become the local champion song. According to the market reaction, the record sales should reach 40,000 copies.

It is no exaggeration to say that Celine Dion has become a star in Quebec, which shows the potential of the future French pop queen.

Taking advantage of this little loli to learn singing skills. Tang Huan asked her to cooperate with the activity. It is also good to exercise the ability to deal with big scenes. There are thousands of people sitting below, the opportunity is rare.

The human voice inevitably changes as we age.

Deng Lijun's voice in the song and dance movie Miss Fan she starred in when she was 17 years old is different from what she is now.

The same 17-year-old Zhang Delan's performance in singing the theme song Flowers Full Moon Tower of the TVB TV series Lu Xiaofeng: The Mystery of Jinpeng is also slightly different from the present.

The voice of this age group is as natural as a jade plate, and the current Celine Dion is in such a state.

After Little Lolita finished singing, Tang Huan walked onto the stage amidst applause. He said with a smile: So many people applauded, you have to send an autograph to express your gratitude.

As much as you want. Celine smiled mischievously, and walked to the table, on which were placed the highest-end model of the second-generation Fangyuan computer, and a laser printer independently developed by Zheru. with word processing software.

At present, Zheru's large-scale software has been graphically implemented on its second-generation Fangyuan computer platform, which is very easy for users to use.

Soon, the laser printer follows Celine's request. A stack of copies was printed.

This is my signature. How much do you want? How many. Celine proudly pointed.

Please give it to everyone in the audience to see if they are satisfied. Tang Huan waved his hand with a smile.

Celine agreed crisply, distributed the printed copies to everyone, and then left the stage

Seeing this scene, the participants were puzzled at first, but after seeing the printed out distinctive text content, they were amazed and quickly understood that this is a new technology that will be introduced today.

Tang Huan was in a very happy mood, because after such a long period of technical preparation, a new application field—desktop publishing, or dtp—can finally be launched.

It can be said that with this technical means and the informationalization of Chinese characters through Chinese cards, Chinese culture can be compared with the convenience of English in terms of publishing and printing.

Ladies and gentlemen, the first new technology I'm going to introduce is about computer fonts and glyphs, called opentype. Tang Huan picked up a printed copy left by Celine and showed it, Everyone has seen, The above writing form is different from what you usually see, with some more personality, just like your own unique calligraphy when you write. opentype can provide such an artistic creation platform, and at the same time has the internal mechanism of copyright protection.

Speaking of this, Tang Huan pointed to the computer monitor and laser printer, opentype can also achieve device-independent text output effects, that is, another monitor and printer are replaced, and the display effect is still consistent.

In addition to the three concepts of inner code, outer code, and exchange code in the process of informatization, text also involves the concept of font code in how to display it. Opentype can be understood as a tool for managing opentype.

In the original time and space, just as desktop publishing was not understood by ordinary users, fonts were also routinely ignored by people, but they did not know its hidden profits, as well as the several market competitions for it, Apple, and Microsoft.

After introducing opentype, Tang Huan began to introduce the second technology, which belongs to a page description language and programming language.

The display of the text content on the computer monitor is temporary, and after being output by the printer, it is regarded as a kind of permanent preservation.

Many technologies have long been used to help printers print characters—often characters—but most of them have one thing in common, which is that the characters are physically difficult to change, such as the metal or optical elements on the keys of a typewriter. Flat strips.

That is to say, when outputting in batches, it is almost impossible to achieve personalized fonts and flexible typesetting styles.

But things began to change with the popularity of dot-matrix printers.

Because on these systems, characters are drawn as a series of dots, and these dots are defined as fonts.

Obviously, the font library provides storage space for the fonts managed by opentype.

At the same time, dot matrix printers also have the ability to print bitmaps.

Each printer implements text and graphics output. The means vary. After all, it is now a manufacturer engaged in printer research and development and production. It's not just Xerox, HP, and Epson.

Therefore, programmers have to create many drivers to print using the control languages ​​of various printers. As a result, the workload is really unimaginable.

Unless another special device - a plotter is used for output, because it shares a common language - hpgl, but its main function is to print graphics, and it is expensive. The speed is slow and lacks the foundation for popular use.

It is to solve the confusion caused by different printers fighting each other in the way of output. It is like a public agreement. Inkjet printers in the commercial stage can all perform the same output.

After Tang Huan explained the main points in general, he invited an expert in this field - John Warnock.

In the original time and space, the idea of ​​language originated in 1976 when John Warnock was working at the computer graphics company Evans and Sutherland.

then. John Warnock was developing an interpreter for the large three-dimensional graph database of New York Harbor, and he ended up designing a language very similar to a programming language for processing graphs.

In 1978. evansandsutherland asked john warnock to leave san francisco bay and work for utah headquarters, but the dude didn't want to move there. So he joined Xerox instead.

And Xerox, which developed the world's first laser printer, is trying to find a standard page control language for its laser printer. John Warnock has a place to use and works with - Martin Newell .

They rewrote it, developed the --jam system, which later evolved into an extended system called interpress.

According to the historical development, in December 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left together to create a famous company.

However, in this time and space, Tang Huan paid special attention to printers from the very beginning. When Epson printers reached 16 pins, they were equipped with supporting chips that could understand and execute them. The development of this technology was much faster than that there.

Being respected as the cradle, not only his own people ran out to start a business, but other companies also came to poach the wall, Tang Huan naturally would not be polite.

Jobs only focused on talents related to GUI technology, but Tang Huan knew that the valuable things in it were by no means limited to this, and the laser printer and John Warnock were just one of the many poaching results.

After pushing John Warnock onto the stage, Tang Huan thought with a smile, it's time to set up, this is another gold-absorbing monster.

John Warnock introduced the core software pagemaker for desktop publishing newly developed by Zheru at the same time.

According to the historical development, this tool will be released by aldus company in 1985.

In order to promote the desktop publishing system, Tang Huan naturally developed pagemaker in advance, and this is the first one, and other supporting software will be launched later.

In the original time and space, Apple, which swept Jobs out, could not survive only with outdated hardware and the so-called graphical user interface, so it also embarked on the path of opening up a new field-desktop publishing system. It can be called an industrial revolution, and it also allowed Apple to survive until the 1990s.

At that time, Apple launched its own laser printer, and then cooperated with Aldus' desktop publishing software pagemaker and , to form the 3a alliance, which gave birth to a new industry desktop publishing system.

At present, it seems that the lowest price of the cheap personal computer you claim is between 1,500 and 2,000 US dollars, and it is still a model with only b memory, but it can be made below 1,500 US dollars. Tang Huanhui eyes Ruju calculated the cost and hit the other party further, Don't you know, b memory is really rubbish for current commercial software.

Facing Don Estridge's annoyed eyes, Tang Huan continued to say leisurely: When you develop the memory board and insert it into the expansion slot, the cost will naturally increase accordingly. Dude, your cheap computer It’s a gimmick, it’s a deceit.”

Don, you must have never seen IBM's powerful manufacturing capabilities. In two months, when the market is full of IBM-figures, you will not be so confident. Don Estridge said coldly With a sneer, You seem to be with the guests, so I won't send you off soon. (To be continued...)

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