Rebirth of the Tech Madman

The coexistence of studios and freedos provides a very friendly platform transition mechanism. But this also brings up a question, whether studios is a real operating system, not an upgraded and enhanced version of the shell in freedos.

It needs to be pointed out that although Zheru did not publicize it, the freedos in the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computer has indeed been upgraded to a 32-bit version. This should be regarded as the most powerful dos operating system in the industry at present, and it will naturally bring There are a lot of new features coming. However, our focus is on studios with a GUI, after all, that's what the average user is most interested in.

The startup screen of studios is a simple animation. On the black screen background, a book composed of green lines is slowly flipping. On the left and right sides are progress bars moving from bottom to top, like candles. The meaning of the fire of civilization is inside.

It can be seen that Zheru's design team has spent a lot of thought on the details, which has been reflected in many subsequent user experiences.

Actually, the startup screen of studios is by no means as simple as a good-looking logo. During this process, the studio kernel is checking whether the hardware, including cpu, memory, graphics card, etc., meets the operating standards of the operating system. Once it fails, then It means that this computer cannot provide the basic conditions required for the studio to run.

When the studios are successfully started, the interface presented to us is called workspace, just like a lot of furniture in a room, and there are many things called icons in it for us to operate and interact with.

The long strip at the bottom of the screen, which looks like a dining table, is called the taskbar. Studios is also a multitasking operating system. And this taskbar is used to help manage multiple tasks during operation.

The element called 'Start' on the far left of the taskbar is actually a menu we are very familiar with. As the name suggests, users can find all interfaces to control computer resources here. For example, the file explorer - in a graphical way A tool to manage all the files on your computer.

The start menu is like a big locker, ≠∨≠∨, which collects all the interfaces that control computer resources; and the icons on the workspace represent a more concise and convenient operation method. For example, double-click The 'My Computer' icon will directly invoke the file explorer.

Different from the single-button mouse used by Apple's personal computer product mac, Fangyuan personal computer has always used a two-button mouse, so it has more operation combinations on the graphical user interface of studios, which is not as simple and clear as mac, which is a bit Test the user's understanding.

for example,

Click the left mouse button to select the target, double-click the left mouse button to run the selected target, and click the right mouse button to invoke the operation menu associated with the target. Double clicking the right mouse button, lol..., doesn't seem to do anything.

Zheru combined this set of mouse operation methods, collectively referred to as mouse gestures. It is said that in addition to the system's built-in predefined mouse gestures, users can also define their own customary mouse gestures. In this way, the role of the mouse has obviously stepped forward. A big step is that users may not be able to fully remember these dazzling mouse gestures. Instead, the original intention of intuitive and simple GUI operation is lost.”

Of course, if the user is patient. Exploring the mysteries of mouse gestures, you can still find many interesting and practical functions. The editor accidentally discovered such a function, and now I will share it with you.

There is a document-like icon on the workspace, the name is Software License Agreement. Double-click it, and studios will automatically call the system's built-in text processing program to open it, and its content is a lot of copyright-related statements. Don't bother, we press the With the left and right mouse buttons, this document will automatically turn pages, isn’t it very convenient?”

The mouse function we really want to introduce is draganddrop——drag and drop, that is, the mouse drag and drop function. Take the software license agreement as an example. Select it, and don't release the left mouse button, to the trash can Drag the icon. We can see that the icon of the software license agreement document is moving along with the dragging of the icon. A progress bar animation appears, and the file is thrown into the trash can, that is, deleted. This operation is a process of dragging and dropping the mouse, isn’t it simple, vivid and interesting?”

However, this deletion is not a real deletion. Just like the trash can in reality has to go through the process of emptying, we can completely delete the files in it by clearing the trash can. Now, studios provides us with a If you regret the opportunity, open the trash can, select the deleted software license agreement, and perform the restore operation, and the document will return to the workspace.

Let's continue the demonstration. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive, open the file explorer, and you can easily find this floppy disk. Drag and drop the software license agreement just restored. This is a file copy process. From then on In the future, when users perform this routine operation, they no longer need to be as troublesome as typing a line of commands in a DOS environment.”

If the file copying time is too long, we can find a card game in the start menu and wait while we play.

Behind this process is the multitasking feature of studios, while Apple's mac does not provide this feature.

Running multiple tasks at the same time will naturally put a huge pressure on the memory. However, we don't need to worry too much, because another difference between studios and mac is that it is a hard disk-based operating system that can use the hard disk space virtual memory, allowing the four generations of Fangyuan PCs to run programs that exceed the actual memory capacity supported.”

I have worked tirelessly for 36 hours without sleep. Naturally, I will not only dedicate these things to you. It is only meaningful for personal computers to play a real role. To this end, we tested mainstream applications on the market. To evaluate four The compatibility of this new platform of Daifangyuan personal computer.

As a result, we found that the compatibility of the 32-bit freedos with the old version of the application meets expectations, and the performance has indeed improved a lot.

In other words, even if third-party software developers do not have time to launch new products in the studio environment, users can still benefit from four generations of Fangyuan PCs.

Actually, as the largest software company in the world, how could Zheru let the newly released graphical user interface operating system studios stand alone, and its own office software spreadsheet cgrid, word processing wordeasy, database ebase, slideshow powerpresenter, etc. And other heavyweight products have launched a new version that supports studios, and the performance is quite good.

Third-party software developers are lagging behind, mainly because they still haven't adapted to the new programming framework of studios. However, some manufacturers have launched beta versions, such as another excellent word processing software wordperfect. It is only in the testing process. I don't know if there is something wrong with the floppy disk, when operating the floppy disk file, a blue screen of death appeared.

We have reported this situation to Fangyuan Computer Company and WordPerfect Company, hoping to find the reason for the blue screen of death.

In addition, this evaluation is mainly from the perspective of users. Studios also includes new technologies such as opentype fonts, tcp/ip network, hardware accelerated opengl, objectlinkingandembedding-object linking and embedding, which are ole, etc., because it is mainly for professional field. I won’t make too many statements.”

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Byte magazine's so-called sleepless 36-hour hard work, once launched. Sure enough, it was a great success. It was reprinted several times in the current period, and the supply was still in short supply. Moreover, the content in the evaluation was quoted by many third-party media, which can be described as infinitely beautiful.

Seeing this scene, pcmagazine, which was one step behind, couldn't help but feel angry. Simply follow the trend and launch a 72-hour cohesive evaluation report without sleep.

Regarding this phenomenon, many media colleagues have exclaimed, is the working environment of magazines in the IT field so difficult? I don't know if everyone is pretending to be confused to have fun.

pcmagazine's expertise in evaluation and reporting is in the field of hardware, so it went through a lot of trouble to obtain a license from Fangyuan Computer Company to open the main box of the four-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype. This makes its evaluation report lose the advantage of timeliness, but its characteristics are very strong.

The main hardware configuration of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype includes: cpu is 25mhz mc68020, memory capacity is 1mb, 40mb hard disk, 2d accelerated graphics card, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, 10mb Ethernet card and so on.

pcmagazine showed an exclusive unboxing photo in the report, and added more memory on this basis, and replaced it with a more powerful 2D accelerated graphics card to challenge the performance limit of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer.

In the end, pcmagazine excitedly came to a conclusion that some software that could only run on Fangyuan workstations in the past may have the opportunity to be represented on the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers.

This is good news, which means that the user base of software developers is expected to expand.

In addition, pcmagazine inserted various expansion cards into the slots of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer prototype, which finally broke the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer, because many drivers have defects , resulting in frequent blue screens of death.

Fortunately, the reporting style of pcmagazine this time is not like the last time when it found the quality problems of the third-generation Fangyuan personal computer. And analyze it rationally in the evaluation report.

At the end of the article, pcmagazine made a joke about studios, a brand new graphical user interface operating system, thinking that in addition to standarduios, a variant of the standard user interface operating system, its name also means studyos - including manufacturers, developers All groups, including merchants and users, need a learning process.

Although the report of pcmagazine lagged behind, but with more exclusive results, it also achieved gratifying sales performance.

All in all, the participating media have made a lot of money from the theme of the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers, and then created the momentum of a new computer era is coming.

However, the experience of four generations of Fangyuan personal computers being damaged by the evaluation media also gave people with ulterior motives the opportunity to catch irony, so that the term blue screen of death became popular.

No matter how noisy and noisy the various voices are, the competitors of Fangyuan PC have felt the pressure created by the new computer era is coming.

IBM is in a bit of an embarrassing situation, because it has accumulated a considerable amount of intel80286 before, and although the second suppliers are often more than a year behind in R\u0026D progress, once they launch compatible products, they will surpass these original Intel manufacturers in terms of performance The cpu produced makes the ibm-pc compatible machine faster than the genuine ibm-pc machine.

As for the new personal computer platform ps/2 that ibm is developing, because it has a 32-bit mainframe that has to be maintained, it can only continue to revolve around the 16-bit platform represented by a large backlog of intel80286. In front of Dai Fangyuan's personal computer, he could hardly lift his head.

But ibm has to bear it, it needs to be safe from the outside world, and it needs to redesign the personal computer architecture to regain control of the chaotic ibm-pc standard camp.

As for Apple's Mac, there is no way to mention it. The top management is busy fighting among themselves.

After Jobs tried to launch a coup but was informed and failed, John Sculley got the support of the board of directors and began to reorganize the company, putting his former good friends in the positions of chairman and global technical architect. On the company's power structure diagram, there are no line segments representing power to connect.

The founder of Apple has actually been out of the game, and even completely reduced to a marginal role in the IT tide led by Tang Huan. (To be continued.) uw