Rebirth of the Tech Madman

The media is only joking, and an industry expert like Tang Huan will not take it seriously—no one can ignore IBM's technical strength in the high-end field, not to mention that this time Big Blue has changed its procrastinating style, and its product line layout can be described as thorough.

The rs/6000, which adopts the power microprocessor, has launched the powerserver series and the powerstation series respectively for the server and workstation markets, and has expanded downwards to mobile computers and desktop computers, which has the potential to counterattack the personal computer market.

As the most important core component in the computer hardware system, in addition to the conventional design of the current risc, power also breaks a unique skill of the philosophical holder, that is, register renaming and randomness, which are of great significance to the parallel execution of the processor. sequence execution technology.

This limited data flow architecture computing method was successfully introduced to the microprocessor by Zheru for the first time. Don't look at competitors like mips, sparc and the like, taking advantage of the risc boom, they are also doing well, but at such key nodes, they can only make expressions of helplessness. But now, ibm's power is the first to break the monopoly of philosophers and Confucian holders.

The power microprocessor, which was placed high hopes by ibm and used as a life-saving straw, had an initial operating frequency of 20mhz. Using it as the rs/6000 of the cpu, the supported memory capacity is between 8mb and 128mb.

In terms of software, rs/6000 is also an orange outfit, and there are IBM's own operating system aix and relational database management system db2 and other products available for use.

In fact, with only these two platforms, rs/6000 is enough to start a new round of competition with Fangyuan servers and Fangyuan workstations in the enterprise market.

In addition, ibm has also lowered its profile and joined forces in the industry, trying to find more room for the power architecture. Not to mention, it will soon hook up with Apple.

After driving Jobs away, Apple is finally a properly functioning enterprise.

CEO John Sculley brought over his marketing skills from PepsiCo to clarify the product line.

Jean-Louis Garcy, who took over the Mac division after Jobs, was eventually promoted to head of development. During his term of office, he kept canceling low-end products, while raising prices, and taking the high-end route, which fits well with John Sculley's thinking.

In all fairness, in the first few years of their administration, Apple's performance was remarkable, which proved to the outside world the correctness of driving away the founder Jobs.

However, computers are not cola after all. No matter how colorful the marketing is, it still depends on technical strength to speak.

In the past two years, sales of Apple products have declined sharply.

In this way, Jean-Louis Gassi was first questioned and was forced to resign this year. Michael Spindler succeeded the position of development director, and naturally began to reflect on Apple's product development. A CPU with sufficient performance.

Due to the long-term use of Motorola's mc68000 series microprocessors, Apple naturally hopes that the other party will provide solutions.

In the competition of the same level of the latest generation CPU, Motorola's mc68040 surpassed Intel's intel80486 in performance, but heat generation is a problem that cannot be ignored, and the two sides can only be regarded as a tie.

Therefore, Apple hopes to use the risc microprocessor, which is unanimously optimistic in the industry, to make its personal computer products worthy of high-end routes.

But Motorola's risc research and development results - mc88000, performed so poorly that Apple, which was so disappointed, had to give up the idea of ​​adoption.

At this time, power was born, and at the right time, Apple found a solution, and then hit it off with IBM.

According to the cooperation statement between the two parties, IBM will derive a type of CPU suitable for personal computer hardware systems for Apple based on the power architecture.

Tang Huan, who was at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation of the United States, couldn't help frowning after receiving this series of news—if IBM really seized the opportunity of the rigid demand for high-end products such as servers due to the rise of the Internet, maybe it will turn around in time up.

Tang Huan visited the National Science Foundation, but the lobbying effect was not great. Because the funding comes from Congress, whether it can be used commercially must be approved by the other party, and there are many procedures to go through.

That being the case, let’s let it go for now. Originally, this trip was just a trial, and Tang Huan was still very patient, so he turned his attention to the upcoming speed-up plan with a target of 45mbps.

Gein, this will involve a considerable number of new network nodes, which is a very rare and valuable purchase contract for Yuanyuan servers.

Unexpectedly, just after IBM released the bold words, it will introduce power into the supercomputer, so as to beat the rb who just won the title of the world's fastest computer, and brought the rs/6000 to grab the order.

Now the richest man, An Sheng, is finally angry. Is this because I have been away from the mainstream society for a long time, and my subordinates have more than enough to develop, so they bullied me?

You know, the number of Internet visits has doubled in less than 7 months, which is why the speed of the Internet is increased every few years.

Although it promotes its openness and inclusiveness, it is impossible for the solutions adopted for each upgrade to not affect the next one.

In other words, the order is upgraded one by one, the greater the selection inertia caused by technical stickiness in the future, and the probability of winning new orders will also increase.

Based on these reasons, how could Tang Huan tolerate ibm coming to snatch food from him?

The previous order to upgrade the Wall Street financial system was lost if it was lost. The culprit of Black Monday is not so easy to memorize, but there is no similar concern about avoiding suspicion.

When he came to New York and talked to the media about IBM's new products such as power and rs/6000, Tang Huan said bluntly: In addition to out-of-order execution, holder has many other exclusive technologies. Leave competitors in the dust.”

In addition, Zheru has set his sights on the 64-bit architecture, which is the same as hard indicators such as operating frequency and process. The performance improvement brought about cannot be caught up by tinkering.

After using the future to smash the media into an uproar, Tang Huan continued to express his position on the current situation: Fangyuan Computer Company will re-compete for the title of the world's fastest computer, and I believe that within two years, it will surpass rbnec by a factor of two. 23.2gflops of the sx-3/44r.

The reporters quickly took notes, but they didn't realize that the boastful Mr. Richest Man is no longer the chairman of the board of Fangyuan Computer Company. It seems a little inappropriate to continue to speak as a spokesperson.

Feeling a slip of the tongue, Tang Huan quickly changed the subject: At this stage, the ecosystem on the Fangyuan computer platform is the most complete in the industry.

Take the enterprise market for emerging World Wide Web applications as an example. There are server operating systems, ebase for databases, zis for www servers, polestar for browsers, the most powerful zeroone_cAAAA_buider for development tools, and the latest rapid application development tools. Represents delphi... and so on, and so on. May I ask, which other platform can provide such a perfect complete solution?

After the words of the richest man were spread by the media, it was like a stone being thrown into a calm pond. It immediately caused a sensational reaction in the industry. Various companies compared each other to determine the position of their own products.

In terms of operating system, the high-end Unix is ​​constantly fighting openly and secretly. The ancient Unix has a wider range of applications, but because of the scattered authorization, it cannot suppress Vientiane with a fist; the desktop continues to maintain a clear distinction - Fangyuan personal computer, ibm's ps /2 and ibm-pc compatible machines, Apple's mac, well water does not violate river water.

However, Microsoft has begun to join in the fun and announce that it will officially release windows 3.0 in May this year, and promises that this version has a satisfactory and substantial improvement compared to the previous functions.

Now, the ibm-pc compatible camp is happy. They got the inside information, and they have already determined that windows 3.0 can help their products compare with Apple's Mac in terms of graphical user interface.

But the scandals that continue to appear on the ibm-pc compatible platform are also extremely ironic.

The once troika of software - database, the market is chaotic, and the only king, dbase, has made a lot of money, which has attracted the attention of many family workshop companies.

Everyone focused on this piece of fat, so they launched clone products one after another, such as foxbase, arago, etc.

In addition to being 100% compatible with the original dbase, these counterfeit database systems also have a unique skill, that is, they can compile database programs written by dbase into executable files, which greatly improves performance.

In the process of adding new features like these to dbase and launching a counterattack, Ashton-Tate Company has some success, but it cannot resist the continuous loss of market share. In the end, it can only hope that the most active performers Foxbase dragged into court.

According to common sense, the Ashton-Tate company must be sure. But what is surprising is that in January this year, the California court's ruling not only dismissed the lawsuit, but also declared dbase's copyright invalid because it imitated the jpdis of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Ashton-Tate Company was in When registering dbase with the National Copyright Office, this fact was deliberately concealed.

In other words, not only did Ashton-Tate fail to sue Foxbase, but it also made an example of others, and also made a fate that any company can imitate dbase products.

According to reliable news, Microsoft has taken a fancy to the finally whitewashed foxbase, and plans to take it under its command, so as to improve the lack of database layout of its own software products.

Fortunately, the relational database management system market is more respectable. Products such as ebase, db2, oracle, informix, and sybase all have their own characteristics, and each is good at winning.

Programming and development tools are also in a situation where Zheru and Microsoft each focus on Fangyuan computer and ibm-pc compatible system, but when Borland launched borland_cAAAA this year, it broke the gap and supported the simultaneous development of applications running on the two platforms , or even as simple as just one line of macro commands to notify the compiler.

In addition, at the same time that Microsoft was looking for foxbase, Borland also decided to buy the dbase that quickly slipped into the abyss because of losing the copyright lawsuit, so as to build the software country in its mind.

As for browsers and web servers, although many R\u0026D teams have been attracted, including the recently joined IBM, only Zheru can come up with a mature and stable solution for actual operation. But because of this, the competition has become more and more fierce, so that the outcome is unpredictable.

In short, companies that were already at odds with each other because of commercial interests, after being attracted by the World Wide Web to form a circle, it became more and more commonplace for each other to fight each other. The situation of chaotic wars made people dig all kinds of news all the year round. It media all feel dazzled and at a loss.

As the pioneer of the World Wide Web, Zheru has naturally become the center of the vortex of competition. It is inevitable that his products will be sliced ​​and researched by his peers in order to transform them into their own intellectual property rights. The pressure he feels can be imagined.

Fortunately, Zheru has a big boss who has returned to sit in person, and his response is to take the initiative to attack—attack is the best defense, and it released new products again.

The application field involved this time is e-mail, which has been developed and matured on the Internet for a long time, and has the widest range of use. People are increasingly inseparable from it.

With the opening of the World Wide Web, Zerone_exchange_server_1990, Zerone_exchange_server_1990, Zeru’s email management system, and the supporting email client zeroone_smartmail have the most powerful functions so far. The most obvious evidence is the support for related protocols such as smtp and pop3. full support for .