Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Seeing Woz with a big beard also ran to San Jose International Airport to pick him up, Tang Huan smiled and said, Why are you so enthusiastic?

Donate for charity. Woz scratched his head with a silly smile.

Just go to my office to get the check. You don't have to see me. Tang Huan shook his head with a smile, opened the door, and got into the car with Woz.

Although Tang Huan often flies around by plane, he has permanent offices in San Francisco, Xiangjiang, Paris and other places, and his secretary can handle such small matters directly.

Just paying money can't show the sincerity of participating in this charity. I want to collect some celebrity items and hold a charity auction. You are versatile, and you will never be stumped. Manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings are all welcome. Within. Woz explained in detail.

Tang Huan nodded repeatedly while listening. Don't look at Woz, the founder of Apple, who is not doing his job right now, but it is a good thing for him. After all, with his bad and good character, he has become increasingly unable to adapt to the contradictory political ecology of Apple.

Woz tried to jump out of Apple and founded an IT start-up company alone, but it was not good at management, and Jobs angrily blocked it in every possible way when he knew about it, and finally ended hastily.

Another point is cruel, but we have to face it squarely. Since the crash seriously affected Woz's memory, he, the genius who designed app1ei and app1eii, really lost his former glory. Silicon Valley has never been short of talented people, who have been slapped to death by the waves of the Yangtze River on the beach of IT, where technology development is changing with each passing day.

In fact, Apple hopes that Woz, the founder, will always become his legendary idol, rather than start a new one.

Therefore, this bad guy is regarded as a bear.

As a result, the San Francisco Music Festival sponsored by Woz and Tang Huan has become the best event for him to kill time.

At the third San Francisco Music Festival in September this year, Deng Lijun showed a few photos of her visit to Africa with the French first lady Danielle Mitterrand, and described what she saw and heard with her own experience. This event, which has more public welfare and charity elements, has suddenly improved a lot of style, and many people, including Woz, actively participated in it.

Tang Huan is a nostalgic person, in the process of quickly gaining the halo of a billionaire by taking advantage of Apple's momentum. 'Woz is a gentleman too, so he's happy to see the other side have something to do.

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As long as Woz is assigned a suitable financial assistant that can be negotiated, he, the legendary icon of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, can still play a lot of roles. The San Francisco Music Festival is an obvious example.

Now. Woz started contacting celebrities in the IT and music circles again to promote charity activities for the relief of hungry people in Africa. He naturally wanted to give support, so he nodded and agreed, No problem, I will definitely find some meaningful personal items and contribute them.

Woz nodded happily, and after getting the things from Tang Huan, he said goodbye happily and turned to the next target. The current situation of Apple is not mentioned at all, which shows the degree of drifting away between the two.

The current Apple company is almost at the point of its last stand. In terms of product sales, the Lisa computer is almost zero. As for the mac that debuted at the beginning of this year, it can’t even sell 1000 units a month, and it has fallen back to the level of 198o. .

Because of neglect, app1eiigs, the latest model of app1eii, which provided Apple with long-term and stable financial resources, also began to decline.

In order to get rid of the embarrassment of mac due to insufficient performance, Jobs has merged the Lisa department into the mac department. Recently, there is a desperate move, that is, to modify the slow-moving Lisa computer, such as adding a mac emulator, and then package it into an upgraded mac model macxl. On sale for close to $4oooo.

Mac with only 128kb of memory, the performance bottleneck is too fatal; the macxl, which is remodeled from a Lisa computer that sells for nearly $1,000, costs less than $4,000, has a memory of 512kb, and can be expanded to 2mb, which is overcome this difficulty.

That's it, those who don't know the truth. Users who are obsessed with the functions of the graphical user interface really bought it, and Apple has improved mabsp; The practice of selling is a kind of commercial fraud. After all, no matter how close the interface given by the mac emulator is to mac, its core is actually a Lisa computer that cannot be sold.

On this point, there were also disagreements within Apple, but for the sake of the company's righteousness, the superficial calm was quickly restored.

But there is one thing, the Lisa computer is packaged as macxl, and it is re-launched on the market. It seems to be a successful rescue, but one fact cannot be changed, that is, Apple is selling the Lisa computer at a loss. When the inventory is cleared, it cannot continue to do this. The more you sell, the more you will benefit. The fundamental solution to the problem is to develop a real mabsp with sufficient performance; otherwise, Apple, which has overdrawn its own credit and expectations for its graphical user interface, will be abandoned by users. 'Already besides macs, there are other great PCs to choose from.

Tang Huan has nothing to say about Apple's current confusion of new tricks. He thinks he has done his best.

Tang Huan's first pot of gold, the spreadsheet software cgrid, was realized with the help of the app1eii platform. Afterwards, word processing software ordeasy, database ebase, and hardware products such as display function enhancement card and printing function enhancement card were released one after another, and even the price of the whole set was added together, surpassing the app1eii platform itself.

It is not difficult to see how app1eii played a role in Tang Huan's original capital accumulation.

With the deepening of the cooperation between the two parties, it reached the point of mutual shareholding, which allowed Tang Huan to catch the ride of Apple's IPO. In less than two years after entering the IT field, he won the title of billionaire. Ranked third, even surpassing Woz, one of the founders of Apple.

The aura of a billionaire brings convenience in terms of social status, bank loans, financial credit, etc. It is really difficult to calculate exactly.

Tang Huan started his business as a poor student and rose rapidly. Becoming a rich man in the United States, the whole process is aboveboard and clean. Not only is it more than countless people regard it as an idol of struggle, but it also attracts the research of many experts. Even without authorization, biographies of all kinds of people are still flying around.

In all the descriptions, it is agreed that among Tang Huan's success factors, the trick of borrowing the chicken to lay the egg is perfect. And Apple is the chicken in Tang Huan's process of accumulating wealth.

With little value left and conflicts from the board of directors, Tang Huan quickly left Apple. But through Markkula, Jobs, Woz's shares in Zheru, and long-term support for the development of the app1eii platform, he still paid back to Apple.

This is also a major basis for the outside world to comment on Tang Huan's kindness. You know, in the cycle of raising pigs and killing pigs, Wall Street also ironically favors those who are of good character. When Apple drove away the entrepreneurial hero - the first CEO Michael Scott, he was criticized by him for sharing adversity but not wealth.

But in the eyes of some key members of Apple's board of directors, especially Jobs, who is obsessed with owning the products he created like Woz, Tang Huan's support for the app1eii platform. It is to change its lineage step by step, and eventually make it a member of the Fangyuan Computer Standards Alliance, which will damage Apple's long-term interests, so they put the company's focus on the mac and Lisa computer projects.

Since Apple insisted on this idea, it was impossible for Tang Huan to put a hot face on his cold butt, after all, the value of the other party's use was really very little left.

After listening to John Chambers and others finish chatting about Apple's current situation caused by Woz's visit, Tang Huan nodded and asked: The 32-bit architecture technology of the fourth generation of Fangyuan PCs is implemented by partners. How's it going?

No accidents out of control. John Chambers handed over a document, The most recent highlight is the Fall Openers Conference. And later on dex will release several models that meet the technical specifications of 32-bit personal computers, but they can be found in The function expansion card used in the current 16-bit third-generation Fangyuan personal computer. These two activities can be regarded as the beginning of the official debut of the 32-bit personal computer. Therefore, everyone hopes that you can attend, so as to point out a clearer direction for the future.

Original time and space. In the personal computer industry structure dominated by ibm-pc, the leader IBM has no interest in developing 32-bit personal computers. When Intel, which was desperate to turn to the CPU business, released the 32-bit microprocessor inte18o386, it was Compaq who first launched the first 32-bit personal computer, the paqdeskpro386, and thus began to have the opportunity to occupy a dominant position in the market.

However, after all, Compaq started with the copycat ibm-pc, and its technical goal is to be compatible with ibm-pc. Original stuff is limited. For example, the system bus used by paqdeskpro386 is still the old-fashioned ibm-pc/at bus, and Compaq does not yet have the overall layout ability of Big Blue.

As the personal computer pie grew bigger and bigger, with more and more participants, and IBM lost its monopoly position, various new technologies were gradually added by various manufacturers or industry alliances.

After entering the Pentium computer era, the technical standards of personal computers began to be determined by organizations such as IEEE, rather than by a certain manufacturer.

At this stage, Tang Huan naturally has the absolute right to speak out in the Fangyuan computer standard kingdom built by himself, and the new generation of 32-bit personal computers is also many times more technically perfect than paqdeskpro386, although it is impossible to achieve it in one step. , but it will leave the best space for gradual improvement, including system bus, expansion board, operating system... and even the top-level application that is responsible for driving consumer demand will have an overall layout.

Although this is far from a one-time job, it is also a process of integrating several years of technology development into a product development process, and the complexity can be imagined.

In the early media briefing made by Fangyuan Computer Company for the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers, the overall design goals were disclosed to attract the capital market, users and partners.

IBM, which has valuable research and development experience in mainframe system/36o, is not optimistic about the ambitious 32-bit personal computer plan of Yuanyuan Computer Company, and believes that the company under Tang Huan is too young and does not have the matching ability to successfully manage such a large project.

The actual situation seems to be just as ibm expected. The media has reported from time to time the stumbling in the implementation of the 32-bit personal computer plan, which makes Big Blue's prediction more targeted.

In fact, the media has always been good at exaggerating. How could the research plan led by Tang Huan really become a headless fly? It's just that this kind of attention is also a kind of momentum, and it can also make the old rival IBM fall into confusion and underestimate the enemy. He didn't Rushing to argue, but to clarify with a rational academic attitude.

Tang Huan first published a paper titled No Silver Bullet to show that he had studied the complexity of large-scale project management after studying the classic anthology The Mythical Man-Month written by Fred Brooks, the father of the ibmsystem/36o system. He has a clear understanding and sufficient preparation; then he introduced a set of management systems called capability maturity mode 1 - Capability Maturity Model, or CMM, which has been implemented by his company for a long time, to prove its ability to control large-scale projects.

The reason why Tang Huan discusses project management patiently and rigorously with academic attitude is not only to cheer for the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers, but also to show his maturity and stability in technology research to military customers such as the US Department of Defense.

Judging from the results of the current feedback from various aspects, this coping strategy is very successful, at least it can silence the opponent and lead the partner out of confusion.

After reading the document, Tang Huan said with a smile: The driving effect of video games on personal computers is becoming more and more obvious, and it seems to have become the hot spot of this autumn developer's conference. I participate in this session, which can be regarded as a contribution to Three Kingdoms The cloth is preheated.

Seeing what Tang Huan said, Charles Simeone complained: Tang, you are too partial to EA.

Amid the laughter of everyone, Tang Huan recommended: If you have free time, you might as well play this game. I believe the experience will be very fresh. (To be continued.)

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