Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

After a week, the matter of Xiangjiang Heiyun Group was basically completed. For this time, the siege of reporters at the airport led to the battle for Swire Pacific, the charter king resigned as the chairman of the Jockey Club, and the Black Cloud Group cancelled all HSBC accounts. It can be said that there are no winners, Bao Zixuan has not achieved its strategic goals, the Shi Huai Ya family has increased its debt, and HSBC has lost 150,000 customers and 100 billion deposits. If it weren't for the rapid development of the Black Cloud Group, HSBC would not have so much cash reserves. Now that I can come up with so much money, it is thanks to Bao Zixuan. The only beneficiary may be RB Sumitomo Bank, but who can say exactly what will happen in the future!

Bao Zixuan understands the historical trend, with the deepening and acceleration of China's reform and opening up. In order to need a lot of large-scale equipment and industrial computers, the large-scale equipment has already purchased a complete set of technical materials in Germany and the United States, plus the supply of raw materials from the Soviet Union. Production and assembly in Xiangjiang is no longer a problem. The only thing missing is that Baohuodong Mining Company has not yet put into operation, and the steel output may not be able to increase. Fortunately, there is not such a big demand in the market, and everything is still based on technical reserves.

Seeing IBM's entry into the notebook computer industry, it's not a waste of money! Bao Zixuan has long wanted to enter the field of large-scale industrial computers. This is an opportunity, but in order to confuse Americans, the CPUs used in this large industrial computer are all Motorola chips. Heiyun is also discussing whether to use its own chips, but after careful consideration, Bao Zixuan should not reveal his strength too early.

In addition, the Motorola chip runs very stable, and the performance of the chip designed by Heiyun itself does not meet the requirements. We can only wait until arm grows up and gradually improves, and now Heiyun's own engineer reserve is not in place.

At the same time, for the sake of confidentiality, there are two teams in Heiyun developing large-scale industrial computers. One in the United States and one in Hong Kong. The information on both sides can be shared. Once the required equipment is finalized, mass production will begin immediately. At the same time, the purchased parts are also shipped back to Xiangjiang for storage in large quantities.

After the good news came from the American team, Bao Zixuan left Xiangjiang and boarded the charter flight to the United States. The main reason is that Bao Zixuan needs to familiarize himself with the large industrial computer and improve the system in advance.

At the end of February 1981, Bao Zixuan returned to the United States again. Now for him, he chooses a chartered flight every time he travels, which is more convenient and can have more people accompanying him. After all, with the increase in wealth, security issues cannot be sloppy.

Coming to the Heiyun Computer Headquarters in Cambridge, Bao Zixuan watched the final assembly and debugging. The behemoth in front of us is a large-scale industrial computer that took the Heiyun engineer team nearly two years to develop. This still draws on a lot of ibm's design concepts, and Bao Zixuan instilled the future direction of industrial computer development in the entire team; this is an epoch-making product.

Bao Zixuan looked at Professor Harry Rowland and said, "Is the professor still satisfied with the performance of our computer!"

This time, thanks to the assistance of MIT professors and graduate students, it would take at least two years to achieve this performance without them. Afraid of a patent dispute, Bao Zixuan paid the school $20 million in research and development funds. And donated 10 large computers to the school for free after the research and development was completed; it is estimated that it is more than 20 million US dollars.

Technology is controlled by people, and there is no way out. Who made Xiangjiang or even the entire China have no computer science talent pool, but fortunately, the first batch of admissions at Yulin Institute of Technology mainly focused on computer science, which can be regarded as filling the gap.

Harry-Roland: "I didn't expect you to be able to develop this big guy. Now it seems that the Big Blue has a strong opponent. This is not a bad thing for them, but you have to be more careful in the future, etc. They don't care if they report it."

Harry-Roland said that since the advent of the ibm360 large-scale industrial computer and its subsequent improvements, the blue giant has occupied more than 90% of the market share by virtue of its technological advantages. This was a serious violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ibm was investigated. The case did not end until 1983, which to a certain extent restrained the development of ibm. Otherwise, with their technical reserves, the first home computer must be developed by them first.

Bao Zixuan: "Society is developing, we can't always look ahead. Now I just want to change the world. Others will comment on it."

Harry-Roland: "Let me tell you about the performance of this computer! This computer weighs 2.5 tons, uses 8,000 Motorola 68000 chips, and has an average computing speed of 3.8 million operations per second; the peak computing speed can reach 5.18 million. times/second."

Bao Zixuan: "So our average computing speed is 1.5 times that of IBM370, and the peak computing speed is 2 times his. In addition, we seem to have a few more interfaces than it, so we can accept more data operations. At the same time, we can perform more many tasks."

Harry-Roland: "In principle, this is the case, but there are still some deficiencies in the software. Isn't this you coming back! You are mainly responsible for the next work, and the laboratory tasks have been completed."

Bao Zixuan: "No problem, I have tested the new software many times on the No. 2 prototype of Xiangjiang; no obvious loopholes have occurred. This time, with your guidance, I think the software will be more perfect."

Of course, Harry Roland knew that Bao Zixuan also had a research and development team in Xiangjiang, and it was not so much that the research and development team was a student from the United States. But after all, it was people who paid for it, so he couldn't say anything. The most important thing is that all the expenses are taken care of by Heiyun Computer Company, so what's not to be satisfied when you earn money that you can't earn in your life at MIT!

Harry-Roland: "I can no longer guide you based on your achievements in the computer industry, but I think you still have to calm down and actively invest in research and development. Now that computer technology is changing rapidly, I can't keep up with the rhythm. I hope you can communicate more with everyone."

Bao Zixuan: "Thank you for your teaching. In addition to going to Los Angeles to participate in the exhibition recently~www.readwn.com~ I will finish my studies at school well, and will graduate in a few months. Although I don't have much time to come to school, but I'm really reluctant to be here."

Harry-Roland: "I really decided to go back, what about the company here!"

Bao Zixuan: "It's business as usual, my mother is not in good health. I also want to go back to him early, but I will come here often, but I can't be a student anymore."

Harry-Roland: "Didn't you build a university in Hong Kong yourself! How is the situation now!"

Bao Zixuan: "The first batch of freshmen will be recruited in September this year, and most of them will be selected internally. After all, they are not famous, and they need to be perfected. If you want to come over and teach, the position of dean of the School of Computer Science is reserved for you."

Harry-Roland: "I think about it, I heard that Xiangjiang is a rich and beautiful place. I really want to see it."

Bao Zixuan: "Even if you don't want to teach, you can take your family on vacation, or visit me."

Bao Zixuan knew that until the Soviet Union disintegrated, the United States would not compete on a large scale with Huaxia. Moreover, not long after the two countries established diplomatic relations, the relationship is still good at this time. At present, Xiangjiang has not returned, and the restrictions on Xiangjiang in the high-tech field are not strong. How many good things you can get depends on your ability. After passing this village, there will be no such shop.

After returning to the United States, Bao Zixuan really entered the daily life of a software engineer. In addition to going to school every day, he wrote and debugged programs in the laboratory, trying to be as perfect as possible.

With the continuous discovery of loopholes and problems, the software is further optimized. The comprehensive performance of the Black Cloud Industrial Computer has been improved by at least 30%, and the computing speed is already twice that of IBM370/168.

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