Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Genius One Second Remembers Love ♂ Go to ÷ Novels→.com to provide you with wonderful novels to read. {We don't write novels, we're just text porters for the web. -\u003c网\u003ehua From a certain point of view, dex, which was born for computers, now has the meaning of a bit of an industry vane. It is like a magnet, attracting individuals and enterprises to come here and display their technologies and products on this platform.

Or it can be said that if someone has not participated in dex, he is embarrassed to say that he is a member of the IT industry.

The popularity of dex can also be seen from the increase in the number of exhibitors from the first few hundred to the current thousands, and the rapid growth of the total flow of 10,000 visitors to the daily flow of 10,000 people.

Among them, leading enterprises in the industry, such as Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, and ea, which can provide terminal products with revolutionary applications, have played a role in gathering popularity that cannot be ignored.

Sheldon Adelson, the founder of dex, is well aware of Tang Huan's role, so he has been working hard to maintain the friendship between the two parties, and even the summary information of the exhibitors is sent over as quickly and completely as possible.

There are two guys who can rule the world for an era. When Tang Huan saw the names of Compaq and Lianhua for the first time, he began to mutter to himself.

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This year's fall dex will open in Las Vegas on November 29th.

While talking about the development of the industry, influential figures in the industry often walk around or meet each other unexpectedly. For example, Tang Huan and Don Estridge met again.

As 525-inch personal computer hard drives are becoming more and more popular with users, the ibm- department is not as unresponsive as the head office, and quickly launched a new model ibm- on the basis of ibm-, which is equipped with a 10 mb capacity Seagate hard disk, while the base memory capacity was increased to 128 kb.

The ibm- with product model 5160 is just a simple enhancement of ibm- with product model 5150. xt means extended. It is not like the third-generation Fangyuan computer under development. There have been major functional innovations in the network and other aspects.

If you have to compare new technologies and product release capabilities. The prototype xt/370 produced by the ibm-department is barely a gimmick. (hua

It provides ibm mainframe system/370 terminal emulation function on the basis of xt,

The hardware implementation mainly depends on the expansion card equipped with two Motorola microprocessors.

Just don't know. Among these products, is there any credit for Liu Ergebrecht, who was once the chief designer of ibm?

After seeing Don Estridge, Tang Huan said straight to the point: IBM-Competition with Fangyuan Computer is competition, but some technical standards should be consistent in the industry, which is beneficial to everyone. For example, LAN technology, 3 The Ethernet specification for this is a great use.”

IBM has its own excellent and mature network technology - Token Ring Network. Judging from the data transmission rate alone, because it has no transmission conflicts, a 4m Token Ring network can be compared with a 10m Ethernet is equivalent, so it can be seen that Ethernet is not competitive at all. Don Estridge replied lightly.

More than two months ago, Liu Ergebrecht's revelation brought a huge shock to the ibm-department.

Until now, Don Estridge has not picked a successor to the chief engineer. He was exhausted physically and mentally, and even talking with Tang Huan at this time, he was not interested in tit for tat.

The application environment of the token ring network is too idealized. Network nodes such as mainframes and minicomputers will not cause obvious problems due to their closed system, but personal computers are not suitable. Openness is its biggest advantage. Features.

Speaking of this, Tang Huan smiled slightly, Such a complex network environment. It is similar to the human society of three religions and nine streams, counting on each network node to return it when it is used up, instead of selfishly occupying the network of tokens all the time. The only credential for resource control. Not realistic.

After listening to Tang Huan's analysis, Don Estridge's expression changed, but he shook his head in the end, Perhaps what you said is somewhat reasonable, but ibm is enough to form its own line, and use its strong technical strength to deal with complex problems. Application Environment.

Although Fangyuan Computer and IBM compete. Starting from the personal computer market, it gradually expanded to the field of enterprise applications, but as far as Don Estridge was concerned, the scope of confrontation between him and Tang Huan was limited to IBM- and Fangyuan PCs.

Moreover, Don Estridge is just a department executive of IBM, far less intense than Tang Huan and Steve Ross at the level of company bosses, so that they have mutual prejudice in each other's hearts.

Therefore, Don Estridge listened patiently to Tang Huan's words.

But this also invisibly made Don Estridge a bit shorter when facing Tang Huan, and he was always a little weaker when talking.

Just like the technical standards of personal computer LAN, how could Don Estridge have the capital to give up IBM's ready-made Token Ring network as easily as Tang Huan did, but he couldn't explain it, so he had to find another excuse to prevaricate, appearing timid. cringe.

Seeing this scene, Tang Huan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. The Internet is a big proposition, and as many people as possible must be recruited to operate it, but it is clear that Don Estridge has not yet understood the mystery.

At this time, they wandered to a very lively booth, and the words Compaq portable computers are 100% compatible with ibm- greeted them, very eye-catching, but to the ibm- group, it was a bit dazzling.

Don Estridge stared at the 9-inch monitor of the Compaq portable computer. The correct running results of the famous software on the ibm- platform displayed on it showed that this product was really 100% compatible with ibm-, which made his His face suddenly became ugly.

The reason why Don Estridge actively promoted the disclosure of the ibm-specification was because he wanted to attract more third-party manufacturers to develop value-added products such as function expansion cards for the ibm-platform, so as to catch up with the leading Fangyuan personal computer, instead of encouraging others to develop ibm-compatible machines.

Otherwise, Don Estridge wouldn't have kept what he regarded as the most core technology hidden in his hands.

Taking a step back, even though the current market position of ibm- is inferior to that of Fangyuan PCs, after all, the meat is rotten in the same pot, and its hardware revenue is completely owned by Big Blue, but now suddenly a ibm-compatible machines to share the pie.

What the hell is this Compaq computer?

How does it achieve the so-called 100% compatibility?

It's almost 100% cracked.

Don Estridge made a gesture, gritted his teeth and ordered the accompanying subordinates, Go and find out the details of this Compaq computer, we have not issued any relevant authorization at all, they are going to secretly suck blood on us , Do you think IBM has no lawyers!

Seeing that Don Estridge was so angry, Tang Huan shook his head, there was no way to continue the topic, and it was useless to stay longer, so he turned and left.

As for the Compaq portable computer, Tang Huan, relying on his own technical background, can understand at a glance that IBM-'s has been thoroughly researched by others. For more detailed information, let the subordinates collect it.

Now that I have seen Compaq Computer, the next stop is of course to look at Lotus Software. When Tang Huan arrived at his booth, he found that it was also very lively, and there was a circle of people in the industry - Charles Simeone, Gates, Dan Bricklin and so on.

The person who is speaking is called Mitchell Kapoor, the founder of this Lotus company. The spreadsheet software they developed - 2-3, looks very good, and they are very confident. The market has not yet In this way, 1 million US dollars was spent on advertising. Charles Simeone introduced in a low voice.

This Mitchell Kapoor is really uncommonly confident. Tang Huan nodded slightly, turned his eyes, and saw that Gates was as blue as Don Estridge just now.

What happened to Gates? Tang Huan asked casually.

-2-3 is implemented in assembly language, coupled with reasonable algorithms, the operating efficiency is very outstanding, and even ours is inferior in some cases, similar spreadsheet software on the ibm-platform such as,,,, etc. , naturally the pressure is greater.

Speaking of this, Charles Simeone, who had a serious expression, showed a smile in his eyes, Microsoft has the biggest trouble, it can only support a maximum memory capacity of 256 kb, and -2-3 not only supports larger memory, but also runs more efficiently. There are further improvements, which will push Microsoft to a dead end in one fell swoop.”

Following Charles Simeone's explanation, Tang Huan came to understand that the ibm-s placed on the Lotus Software booth represented usage environments with memory capacities of 64 kb, 128 kb, 256 kb, and 512 kb respectively. And the same version of -2-3, when processing the same data file, with the increase of memory, its running speed is improved, which can be compared at once.

Seeing Mitchell Kapoor happily explaining -2-3, Tang Huan couldn't help raising his eyebrows. It seems that the real chaos in the industry is about to begin.

Tang Huan was thinking about the changes that would be brought about by the appearance of Compaq and Lotus, when he saw a subordinate rushing over to report: Our booth has been disturbed, and the demonstration system cannot operate normally. (To be continued. )

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