Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Since the mid-1980s, economies with outstanding data such as Xiangjiang, Formosa, and Singapore have all faced the problem of weak exports.

Against this background, Hong Kong Governor Youde actively promotes Hong Kong's economy to the outside world, and the mainland has naturally become the top priority.

Just in December of this year, that is, at the beginning of this month, Hong Kong Governor Youde led a high-level economic and trade delegation from Hong Kong to Yanjing, presided over the opening ceremony for the Yanjing Office of the Hong Kong Trade Development Bureau, and presided over the holding in Yanjing The opening ceremony of the Hong Kong Products Fair.

Originally according to the itinerary, Hong Kong Governor Youde was scheduled to return to Hong Kong on December 5, but in the early morning of the same day, he died of a heart attack in his sleep at the British Embassy in China where he was staying at the age of 62. , has become so far the only governor of Hong Kong who died during his term of office-there should be no latecomers.

When Queen Elizabeth II of England visited China in October this year, Hong Kong Governor Youde was still busy on the sidelines, but passed away unexpectedly after just over a month, which showed the suddenness of the incident itself.

The post of Governor of Hong Kong cannot be left vacant for a moment. Sir Chung Yat-kit immediately acted as Governor and officially announced the news through the Hong Kong Government Information Office at 25:00 on the morning of the 25th.

Ji Pengfei, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, sent a message of condolence: Sir Youde died of illness in Beijing suddenly. The sad news came and I was very shocked. Sir Youde was an outstanding diplomat and there is a good public and private relationship between us. Over the years, he has made important contributions to the development of friendly and cooperative relations between China and the UK. We are deeply sorry for his unfortunate passing, and please express our deep condolences and condolences to his wife and family.

The Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, London, said in a statement: The Prime Minister is deeply saddened to learn of Sir Youde's sudden death. She thought that Sir Youde was an excellent civil servant. He worked tirelessly for the interests of Hong Kong, and he was still serving Hong Kong when he passed away, which is a model.

Buckingham Palace published a telegram from Queen Elizabeth II to the Deputy Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Chung Yat-kit: Prince Philip and I are deeply saddened to learn that Sir Youde passed away in Beijing. Sir Youde has made outstanding achievements in Hong Kong and served the motherland very well. Hong Kong will be very important in the next few years, and the loss of a good talent is very memorable.

From the reactions of all parties, it is not difficult to see that everyone agrees with Hong Kong Governor Youde sitting in Hong Kong, where the current situation is complicated. After all, the Chinese side does not want to contact a fool, and the British side does not want the clerk to be a fool.

But this accident disrupted the existing running-in situation between the two sides. Especially on the British side, it was impossible to find a suitable successor for a while. You know, the current governor of Hong Kong is not the kind of local emperor in the past. It is a job that is far more laborious than nourishing. Not only is it less attractive, but it also has high requirements for ability and quality.

The experience of Hong Kong Governor Youde after he officially took over MacLehose in May 1982 also illustrates this point. The future of Hong Kong has become the first acute problem, which directly caused the stock market crash, the bursting of the real estate bubble, the turmoil of the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate, and the accompanying banks. The wave of closures, the upsurge of immigration from Hong Kong, etc.; when the dust settles on this issue, he still has to think about how to take advantage of the transition period to add some imprints of the United Kingdom to Hong Kong's genes.

Being able to survive in the position of Governor of Hong Kong until now, Yoder's performance is of course affirmed by the United Kingdom. It is really not easy to find a China Hand that can stand shoulder to shoulder with it.

The prime minister's office, which is entangled in this matter, is becoming more and more angry about the infighting among the bumpkins in the Far East interest groups.

That's right, the rumors that Hong Kong Governor Youde was killed by HSBC and Qin He, spread from Xiangjiang to the British Isles. The British media's ability to hype gossip is world-renowned, and it instantly became known to both the government and the public.

Many bankers in London mocked HSBC mercilessly, Just because of this popularity, you still want to return to the mainland and fly to the branches to become a phoenix to compete with us?

Shen Bi, Chairman of HSBC, once boasted about sovereignty for governance in front of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,

The last few months before his retirement turned directly into a holiday, and the new chairman of HSBC, Pu Weiss, took office ahead of schedule, and began to eliminate the bad influence caused by all kinds of black materials and negative news dug up during this round of vicious struggles.

Qin He, who presents himself as a victim, is not under so much pressure. Shortly after attending Youde's condolence ceremony, Niu Bijian took the lead in saying, If the Hong Kong government finally decides to take back the exclusive right of Hongkong Telecom, as long as the compensation is reasonable, Hongkong Telecom will be willing to accept this arrangement.

However, this conciliatory attitude has little meaning in the near future. Because the corresponding amount of compensation is absolutely indispensable, the acting Hong Kong Governor Chung Yi-kit cannot make a decision at all. In addition, those Chinese businessmen who were tempted to move by Shen Bi before were also frightened by this vicious battle, and did not plan to add fuel to the flames for the time being.

Tang Huan and Hong Kong Governor Youde don't have much personal friendship, and they didn't get any extra benefits from each other. The biggest achievement of the cooperation is that Hong Kong Governor Youde, who values ​​higher education, helped the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts get on track as quickly as possible. As for the promised Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park, there has been no obvious progress.

Of course, this is not entirely to blame Hong Kong Governor Youde. After the bubble burst, the situation of the Xiangjiang real estate industry was extremely complicated, and Tang Huan, one of the members of Qinhe, was full of men who did not know how hungry he was. In order to strengthen the internal cohesion of the Hong Kong film industry, he set his sights on the cinema The Xiangjiang Development Outline, which excludes entertainment facilities, described it as a powerful enemy that threatened the future of Hong Kong's film industry, which naturally aroused some opportunistic retaliation from the real estate industry.

Even if Hong Kong Governor Youde's death was due to the fierce fight between HSBC and Qinhe, Tang Huan could only say sorry. Judging from the current results of HSBC's status being pushed down from the altar of Xiangjiang, this line of war is very worthwhile, and his goal is getting closer and closer, and he needs to work harder.

Reflecting on Hong Kong Governor Youde's lack of strength, and the fact that some of the next actions may have a subversive sensational effect, Tang Huan decided to take precautions against the future Hong Kong Governor. Isn't the British Prime Minister's Office still worrying about the candidate, then I should invest in that person in advance according to the information of the original time and space.

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After the remote control was completed in the UK, some latest market situation summary was faxed from Fangyuan Computer Headquarters in Mountain View.

All parties fighting in the PC market, which is already full of gunpowder, are stimulated by the Christmas sales season and their eyes are red. According to the statistics of professional IT media, after entering December, the total advertising expenses of various manufacturers reached hundreds of millions of dollars. This shows how crazy the competitive atmosphere is.

After launching the ps/2, a new generation of personal computer with micro-channel architecture, ibm widened its eyes and waited for the first imitation to come out, so that it could kill chickens for monkeys to see.

However, ibm-pc compatible machine manufacturers have long learned the lessons of Compaq's previous lawsuits. A nail that stands up, jumping off will only lead to death, who dares!

Seeing this scene, the blue giant couldn't be more proud—it must first settle down when fighting against the outside world, and it's just around the corner.

The ibm-pc compatible manufacturer, which has always been a technology follower, cannot come up with a counterfeit solution similar to ps/2 in a short time, so it can only continue to play the old card - cost performance.

It should be known that the price of an ibm-pc compatible machine can be achieved, which is only one-half to one-third of that of an ibm genuine machine, based on straightforward indicators such as cpu speed and memory capacity.

With a flexible operating mechanism, although ibm-pc compatible machines are cheap, manufacturers can achieve small profits but quick turnover; in contrast, ibm, which has serious bureaucratic habits, has long been living on the huge profits obtained from monopoly, and it is very difficult Difficult to adapt to such a law of survival.

As the leader in the ibm-pc compatible machine camp, Compaq tried its best to give full play to this advantage, and the marketing expenses it spent topped the list, which seemed to be a last-ditch fight, and the results were not bad. Consumers actually began to agree with its point of view.

Compaq's argument can be summed up in one sentence: the micro-channel architecture of ps/2 can indeed provide faster speed, but it is meaningless to users, and it is not enough to bridge the gap in price.

When more and more people began to be influenced by this value, Tang Huan became a little restless. He slammed the file on the desk with a thud, frowning.

A ps/2 is described as fast and useless. Isn't the faster Fangyuan personal computer in danger of getting a bad reputation!

The performance of ibm personal computers cannot be fully utilized, the main reason lies in the mechanism that has both advantages and disadvantages - the foundry cooperation model including the separation of software and hardware, and the operating system ms-dos provided by microsoft, not to mention the multitasking function , Just its own quality, it dare not be flattered.

In fact, Microsoft's ms-dos is not the only operating system on the ibm personal computer platform. Gary Kildall, the founder of the digital research company that Gates robbed the business, has been trying to recapture the operating system market. It launched the intel8086 version of cp/m - cp/m-86, to compete with the Microsoft operating system ms-dos appointed by ibm.

Although Gary Kildare used ms-dos to approximate cp/m to the extent that it was an infringement, enough to threaten a legal lawsuit, he obtained permission from ibm, and cp/m-86 landed on the ibm-pc platform. It is not easy for the color giant to clean up such a thorn.

Buyout pc-dos, or ms-dos, sells for $40; cp/m-86 sells for as much as $240. Under the comparison of the two compartments, it is obvious how consumers choose.

Later, Gary Kildall added multi-tasking features to cp/m-86, trying to convince users that 6 times the price is definitely worth the money.

IBM doesn't want personal computers to be too powerful, so as not to affect its lucrative mainframe business, so it further supports Microsoft and strengthens the dominance of ms-dos on the ibm-pc platform.

Up to now, the cp/m-86 has indeed been squeezed out, but IBM has also been manipulated by Microsoft. The operating system has become a bottleneck on its own personal computer platform, and it is impossible to use this operation in the same way as those The system is distinguished from ibm-pc compatibles.

When IBM decided to follow the general trend of the industry and jointly develop a new operating system that supports multitasking—os/2—with Microsoft, the performance of this new software was somewhat unsatisfactory.

One of the reasons why the work is not beautiful is that the engineers on both sides don't get along well. The programmers on Microsoft's side are all relying on stocks to easily own tens of millions of dollars, while the ibm programmers with dead wages take it for granted that Microsoft, which is not very good, will not embrace it. IBM's thigh cannot become an upstart.

Under such contradictions, it is quite rare for os/2 to be completed on schedule, and the expectation of perfection cannot be afforded. In the end, the operating system was still a shortcoming, unable to fully exploit the performance of the ibm personal computer.

To put it bluntly, now IBM has been caught by Compaq's too fast and meaningless, which is a typical example of what it deserves.

But Tang Huan hoped that the influence of this value would only spread around the ibm personal computer camp, and not spread to the outside, implicating his proud work.

Tang Huan directly approved his opinion on the fax, and then transferred it to the marketing department, asking him to counterattack in a targeted manner in product promotion, so as not to let customers be fooled by Compaq. As for the breath of relief IBM may benefit from, that would be a charity.

What Tang Huan, the big boss, didn't expect was that his subordinates responded before he got off work that day. It turned out that they had an idea earlier, that is, Michael Jordan, the star of the Golden State Warriors and the best player in the NBA, was inspired by the title of flying man he got.

Under Tang Huan's sentence Who says fast is meaningless, it's because idiots like Compaq have no imagination!, the marketing department continued the idea of ​​only with speed can you fly for Fangyuan PC.

Tang Huan greatly appreciated this, and specially invited John Chambers and others for a meeting the next day, saying: We want to highlight the significance of performance in this battle of personal computer standards, and then increase the memory cost to the entire computer. The influence of the selling price of PCs.

John Chambers immediately heard the sound of the piano and knew the meaning: the boss is going to drive his competitors to death. You know, the procurement cost of DRAM chips has risen now!