Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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The media is only joking. An industry expert like Tang Huan is not serious. No one can ignore IB's technical strength in the high-end field. What's more, Big Blue has changed its procrastinating style this time, and its product line layout can be described as thorough.

The /6000, which adopts the PER microprocessor, launched the PEerer series and the PEain series respectively for the server and workstation markets, and 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 RIS, PER also breaks through a unique skill of the philosopher Hler, 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. Regardless of competitors like IPS and SPAR, taking advantage of the RIS boom, they are also doing well, but at such key nodes, they can only make expressions of helplessness. But now, IB's PER is the first to break the monopoly of philosopher Hler.

The PER microprocessor, which IB placed high hopes on and regarded as a life-saving straw, started to run at 20Hz. The /6000 that uses it as the PU supports a memory capacity between 8B and 128B.

In terms of software, the /6000 is also in an orange outfit, with IB's own operating system AIX and relational database management system B2 and other products available for use.

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

In addition, IB has put aside its arrogance and joined forces in the industry, trying to find more uses for the PER 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 Division A 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 PU with sufficient performance.

Due to the long-term use of Motorola's 68000 series microprocessors, Apple naturally hoped that the other party would provide a solution.

In the competition of the latest generation of PUs at the same level, Motorola's 68040 surpassed Intel's Inel80486 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 RIS microprocessor, which is unanimously optimistic in the industry, to make its personal computer products worthy of high-end routes, but Motorola's RIS research and development results of 88000 are not satisfactory, so that Apple, which is greatly disappointed, has to give up adopting thought.

At this time, PER came out, and at the right time, Apple found a solution, and then hit it off with IB.

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

Tang Huan, who is at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation of the United States, couldn't help frowning after receiving this series of news. If IB really seizes the opportunity of the rigid demand for high-end products such as servers due to the rise of the Internet, it may really turn around.

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 to pay attention to NSFNE’s upcoming speed-up plan with a target of 45bps.

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 IB announced that it would introduce PER into the supercomputer, to defeat RB, which just won the title of the fastest computer in the world, it brought /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 NSFNE increases the speed of the Internet every few years.

Although NSFNE promotes its openness and inclusiveness, it is impossible for the solutions adopted for each upgrade not to 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 IB coming to steal food?

The previous order to upgrade the Wall Street financial system is lost if it is lost. The culprit of Black Monday is not so easy to memorize, but NSFNE does not have similar concerns about avoiding suspicion.

When he came to New York and talked to the media about IB's launch of PER and /6000 and other new products, Tang Huan said bluntly: In addition to out-of-sequence execution, Hler also has many other exclusive technologies. Competitors are far behind.

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 smashing the media into an uproar with the future, 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 RBNE by a factor of two. .2 GFLPS with 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, the server operating system has Araspe, the database has EBase, the server has ZIS, the browser has Plesar, the development tools have the most powerful Zerne__Buier, and the latest rapid application development tools Representing elphi... 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 the operating system, the high-end UNIX and Araspe are 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; 2 and IB-P compatible machine, Apple's A, well water does not violate river water.

However, Microsoft has already started to join in the fun and announce that it will officially release ins3.

Now, the IB-P compatible camp is happy. They got the internal information, and they have confirmed that ins3.0 can help their products compare with Apple's A in terms of graphical user interface.

But the constant scandals on the IB-P compatible platform are also extremely ironic.

In the past, the software troika database, the market was chaotic, and the only king, Base, made a lot of money, which 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 FXBase, Arag, etc.

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

In the process of adding new features such as these to Base 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 FXBase dragged to court.

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

In other words, Ashton-Tate not only failed to sue FXBase, but also made an example of any company can imitate Base products.

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

Fortunately, the relational database management system market is more respectable. EBase, B2, RALE, Inri, Sybase and other products all have their own characteristics and are good at winning.

Programming development tools are also in a situation of their own way. Zheru and Microsoft each focus on the Fangyuan computer and IB-P compatible machine systems, but when they were launched this year, they broke the gap and supported the simultaneous development of applications running on the two platforms. Even It is so simple that only one line of macro commands is needed to notify the compiler.

In addition, while Microsoft was looking for FXBase, it also decided to buy the bottom because it lost the copyright lawsuit and quickly slipped into the abyss, 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 IB, 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. I 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 the response is to take the initiative to 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, Zheru’s email management system Zerne_Ehange_Serer_1990 and the supporting email client Zerne_Sarail have the most powerful functions so far. The most obvious evidence is the support for related protocols such as SP and PP3. full support for . (To be continued.)