Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Ever since British Prime Minister John Major went to China holding his nose for the Xiangjiang new airport construction plan last year and became the first head of government in a western country to visit bj in the latest round of sanctions, he has vented his anger The current governor of Hong Kong, Wei Yixin, has finally settled his account now.

Just this year's New Year's Day, 57-year-old Wei Yixin was on the list of honors and was named a lifelong nobleman.

This honor is of course a great thing. Who can really transcend fame and fortune in life, not to mention that it is also an affirmation of Wei Yixin.

However, an intriguing situation emerged. According to the normal situation, after the first term of office, the governor of Hong Kong would usually be re-elected by the British government as an affirmation of his political achievements. Wilson, who is still several years away from the 60-year-old retirement age stipulated by the British Foreign Office, should have received this honor after being awarded an honor. However, No. 10 Downing Street announced that his term of office as Governor of Hong Kong will end this year. .

What is even more imaginative is that when this decision was made, the candidate for the next Governor of Hong Kong was not announced.

In other words, Wilson was won by British Prime Minister John Major.

During the phone call with Tang Huan, the man's dissatisfaction and annoyance were simply uncontrollable.

It seems that the remaining years before Hong Kong's return will not stop after all—Tang Huan secretly sighed, and turned to comfort Wei Yixin, the last governor of Hong Kong, who had a broken dream, This is the end of the matter, let's face it. Be realistic. If you don’t want to continue to hold public office, I still have a lot of positions in the UK waiting for you to help. For example, the chairman of Chelsea Club, the reputation is not necessarily worse than the Governor of Hong Kong.”

After being teased by Mr. Richest Man, Wei Yixin finally did not lose his composure. He talked for a while before hanging up the phone.

Tang Huan shook his head. Miao Xiaoxiao and Xiangjiang, which is very shady, don't need to worry about him for the time being. He should make arrangements for the United States first and then talk about other things.

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During the period from Western Christmas in 1991 to Chinese New Year in 1992—February 4th, Tang Huan focused on dealing with network resources—for example, the Chinese-American elite organization “Hundreds” activity.

Since the 70-year-old Wang An died of esophageal cancer on March 24, the year before last, Mr. Richest has lost an equal it partner who has a common topic in the Chinese circle. Fortunately, Wang An Computer Company did not go bankrupt like it did in the original time and space. Its business is remarkable in the fields of personal computers, workstations, and office equipment.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the event, Tang Huan made an advocacy that starting this year, he would provide guidance and assistance specifically for the conflicts that Chinese businessmen may encounter in their daily operations.

Of course, it is impossible for the richest man to say this for no reason, there is a background behind it.

Just on March 16 last year, Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African-American girl, was killed by a 51-year-old Korean-American girl for putting a bottle of orange juice in her backpack in a grocery store in Koreatown, Los Angeles. The female shopkeeper, Dou Shunzi, thought it was a robbery, and there was a conflict between the two parties.

Finally, Dou Shunzi, the female shopkeeper, took out a pistol and hit Latasha Harlins in the head at a distance of about one meter. The black girl died on the spot.

During the trial in the Los Angeles court on November 15, 1991, the jury found Dou Shunzi guilty of intentional homicide and was sentenced to 16 years in prison; Years of probation, 400 hours of community service and a $500 fine; the California Supreme Court upheld Joey Sculling's trial after accepting an appeal.

The impact of this incident is obvious. It exacerbated the conflict between African-Americans and Korean-Americans, and even affected the entire Asian-Americans. If you think that everyone is a minority, they will love each other for granted. It is wishful thinking. In fact, blacks who have been enslaved by whites for a long time still have a sense of superiority in front of Asians.

Tang Huan's starting point is based on this incident, which is quite in line with the actual situation.

It can be said to be targeted, so it passed smoothly amidst the voices of approval.

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Just after the busy year, Intel CEO Andy Grove paid a visit.

The research and development plan of the next-generation microprocessor of intel80486 has been carried out to the fourth year this year, and has finally entered the testing stage.

Originally, Intel planned to logically call this generation of products intel80586. After all, naming them with numbers is a habit that the entire semiconductor industry has developed for a long time. Just like amd, its corresponding x86 architecture compatible microprocessors are am286, am386 and so on.

But the problem is that Intel wants to register these numbers as trademarks, so that they can only use them themselves in the future, and then kick out those competitors who are free riding.

As a result, purely digital trademarks were not allowed, and the plan fell through. As a result, this new product has no official name, and can only be called p5, Intel's fifth-generation microarchitecture code name for the time being.

Compared with the previous generation of intel80486, the most obvious improvement of p5 is to support superscalar architecture, which has a breakthrough in parallel execution.

Intel, which puts its treasure completely on the microprocessor, naturally attaches great importance to p5. It was designed by the Santa Clara team that developed the intel80386 and intel80486. At first, dozens of engineers participated, and now it has increased to 200 engineers.

According to the plan, if the p5 is successfully tested, it will participate in the exhibition in June this year, and then it will be officially released in September this year.

Andy Grove came this time, in addition to reporting the progress of the project to Tang Huan, who valued the significance of the p5 to Yuanyuan personal computer, he also had a more important purpose, that is, to use the most advanced manufacturing technology mastered by the richest man —— 800nm ​​process and 8-inch wafer, conduct some tests.

You should know that in recent years, among the cpu products used in personal computers, the performance of Intel's microprocessors has been lagging behind that of Motorola's microprocessors, that is, at high operating frequencies, they maintain a good performance-to-power ratio. p5 will naturally continue this tradition.

Furthermore, compared with the original time and space, in the personal computer ecological chain composed of microprocessor manufacturers, other chip manufacturers, personal computer manufacturers, operating system manufacturers, application software developers and other roles, Intel, which provides microprocessors , is no longer irreplaceable, Gein provides operating system philosophy, at least supports Motorola, Intel, Wang Xuehong's VIA these three cpu.

That is to say, although the Fangyuan personal computer standard has become the industry standard, the Fangyuan personal computer and its compatibles have become the mainstream of the market, and even IBM has surrendered in a sensible manner, but Tang Huan has no intention of putting swords and guns into the warehouse, and letting the horse go to Nanshan. Loosen your grip on the Aurora PC standard.

In this case, the market's acceptance of p5 depends on the operating system.

Let's wait until other platforms have been tested first. The richest man poured cold water on Andy Grove, who was in high spirits.

Due to the increasing complexity, Intel's x86 family of microprocessors, especially starting from the intel80286, has never been successful in the birth process, and basically because of an unbearable bug, the planned official release Bouncing votes.

Mr. Richest, who didn't want his most high-end equipment to be busy for nothing, asked with a little dissatisfaction: Why didn't p5 add native command support for multimedia.

A set of digital multimedia standards formulated by Tang Huan, in addition to software system implementation, also requires hardware support from the underlying architecture to provide the best performance.

p5 is a brand-new micro-architecture. We plan to add support for multimedia commands after it is perfected and stabilized. Andy Grove explained carefully: The Haifa R\u0026D team in Israel is doing this. work.

This shows that at the beginning of the design, you did not take into account the support for multimedia native commands. The market share cannot be seized just by the early launch of the product. Tang Huan criticized unceremoniously.

In the end, Intel's CEO bid farewell and left in despair.

However, Andy Grove's visit reminded Tang Huan of an invitation sent by Gates a few days ago.

Following the release of Windows 3.0 in 1990, Microsoft launched an upgraded version this year - Windows 3.1, which mainly added support for basic multimedia equipment for sound input and output, such as providing a CD audio player.

This is not the point, what attracts attention is that Microsoft announced that starting from windows3.1, its own operating system began to support the intel_x86 microprocessor branch of Fangyuan personal computer.

This move is not difficult to understand. The market share of ibm-pc compatible machines is shrinking day by day. If Microsoft does not make adjustments, it will lose its job as an operating system. What's more, at present, the competitive threat from Novell, a network operating system developer, is making its head big.

Windows 3.1 will be released on March 18th. Gates invited Tang Huan to attend, mainly revealing a kind of flattery. Windows can't pose a threat to Zheru at all, just to make a living and ask for a meal.

Tang Huan has never really let down his vigilance against Gates' hard work and forbearance. How he flattered IBM at the beginning, he will entertain himself now.

It's just that, after Fangyuan's personal computer standard has unified the world, it is indeed necessary to give users one more choice in terms of operating system to reduce the pressure from anti-monopoly.

As long as windows is still the 3. x architecture, it is still a toy, so let it act as a foil for the time being.

Tang Huan put down the invitation card and looked at the schedule. Before that, he first needed to attend AOL IPO-related activities.

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Thanks to the rise of the Internet concept promoted by various people, America Online, a cash-burning company, is very popular with investors. The preparations for IPO are very smooth, and the listing time is finally set on Thursday, March 5th.

AOL's management has undergone a little change in the last year. Tang Huan found a helper for Steve Case——Robert Pittman, let him serve as the CEO, and Steve Case as the chairman of the board of directors.

Robert Pittman belongs to a marketing genius, mtv - music television network is in his hands began to shine.

In a way, AOL is in the media business, and it really needs an executive who's well-versed in the business.

On the other hand, Steve Case, a workaholic, is not good at strict corporate micromanagement. As the company grows, he also needs an experienced partner to cooperate.

Not to mention, when these two people got together, they had a subtle chemical reaction, and they worked well together at work, which greatly satisfied Mr. Richest Man.

On March 5, America Online went public as scheduled, with an issue price of US$17.25, easily raising the planned US$120 million.

Investors are so sought after, of course, for a reason. In their view, compared with other online service companies of the same type, the uniqueness of America Online is not the advanced technology, but the non-professional nature of the users—many people are attracted to it even if they have little knowledge of personal computers. In the virtual community of America Online, such people are precisely the real consumers.

Regarding the use of this financing, Steve Case spoke ambitiously-mainly used to expand the network capacity of America Online, so that all Americans can get the convenience brought by Internet services from America Online.

At the internal meeting to celebrate the success of AOL's IPO, Steve Case, who already had a paper wealth of more than 3 million US dollars through the company's stock, couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart. People thanked a circle, saying that today is the most meaningful day, and wishing that this will be one of the many good days in the future.

It's good if you're motivated! Tang Huan, who enjoyed the lively scene and took a sip of red wine contentedly, thought with a smile, Finally, America Online doesn't have to keep throwing money into it, but has started to become A rake that can hold money.

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Next, Tang Huan showed his face at the Windows 3.1 press conference with a gentle attitude, and said very impartially that Microsoft's software products have brought more benefits to the users of the Fangyuan personal computer platform. More choices and more freedom are a positive signal for the development of the industry.

Of course, under the smiling faces of blessings, everyone's true thoughts are unknown.

In addition, Tang Huan also got a message at this product conference that windows 3.1 will launch a Simplified Chinese version.